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All for a good cause (c1920)
This clip shows a surf carnival at Bondi Beach, Sydney in aid of the St John’s Ambulance Brigade. Surfers catch waves on longboards, lifesavers march on the sand and compete in wheelbarrow races. [read more]
Dancing in the garden of Eden (1933)
Dad Hayseed (Cecil Kellaway) is surprised when his peaceful Sunday is disturbed by a line of tap dancing girls in hiking shorts. He goes to quieten them down and meets the Townleighs, a well-to-do Sydney family enjoying a ramble in ... [read more]
A dancing stagehand (1932)
Tommy Dodds (George Wallace) demonstrates his storytelling skills to an unseen audience of musicians in the orchestra pit, during rehearsals for a new show. He is a stagehand, but he says he learned to dance while working on a pig ... [read more]
‘So nice to be home’ (2007)
Christina (Franka Potente) returns reluctantly to the Gaita family home in Frogmore, after one of her regular absences. Her son Raimond (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is overjoyed to see her, but her husband Romulus (Eric Bana) is less demonstrative. Christina sleeps with ... [read more]
‘I feel like a slut’ (2007)
Jerry (Nathan Phillips), Cheryl (Gillian Alexy) and Pete (Khan Chittenden) visit the scene of the crime in the culvert, with a few other friends. Jerry does not know that Pete and Cheryl took part in the bashing. When Jerry breaks ... [read more]
Mail delivery evolution (1970)
This clip summarises the history and development of the actual delivery of mail items to their recipients, beginning with the first official delivery of mail to the colony of New South Wales and ending with the PMG’s acquisition of a ... [read more]
‘I’ve got your picture, she’s got you’ (1992)
Kerry (Belinda McClory) is shadowing Jack (Richard Sutherland) and his new girlfriend (Ola Chan), one of the nurses from the hospital. Her voice-over shows how close to the edge she is. The lovers are stopped in the street by a ... [read more]
A very British solution (1985)
Captain Webber (Kirk Alexander) has been called into Whitehall. He’s to travel to Australia to sort out the problem of the internees. He’s been chosen because he’s Jewish. [read more]
Inside a new suburban home (1949)
The ‘Smith family’ do some gardening outside the front of their new suburban home before turning to walk inside. In the children’s bedroom, Mrs Smith places toys on the children’s beds, and in the main bedroom she makes the bed. ... [read more]
‘Vicki’s in trouble!’ (1994)
Alex (Elena Mandalis) has just seen that Vicki (Dora Kaskanis) is being sexually abused by her own father (George Harlem). She runs to the home of her English teacher, but leaves when a man – another teacher – answers the ... [read more]
Thursday Island cross-dressing (1937)
Soon after arriving on Thursday Island, Daubenny (Lloyd Hughes) pays Mendoza (Ronald Whelan) 1,000 pounds for his boat and his house on the island. While the crowd follows Mendoza to the nearest hotel to knock down his cheque, Daubenny meets ... [read more]
Pearl overboard (1937)
A Torres Strait Island crew member aboard the ‘Dugong’ finds a large pearl as Daubenny (Lloyd Hughes) returns from the deep in his diving suit. The crew members cheer for joy, attracting the jealous attention of Mendoza (Ronald Whelan), who’s ... [read more]
Flammable finale (1933)
As the rescue party escorts the 3,000 sheep to safety, Clive (John Warwick), Joan (Jocelyn Howarth) and Wayne (Grant Lyndsay) are still caught in the fire. They make for a waterhole, but the fugitive Fletcher (Les Warton) has got there ... [read more]
Memories (2004)
Filmmaker Clara Law has given Trish and Ali some homework – she has asked them to respond to a series of word-prompts including the words ‘ancestors’ and ‘sea’. Against a montage of quiet landscapes and a sparse score, Trish narrates ... [read more]
‘You just don’t matter to me anymore’ (1957)
Lily Parker (Rosemary Harris) follows Macauley and Buster into town, after her father tells her he sent them away from the Parker property. At the pub, Lily needs to sit down when she sees Macauley in the public bar. The ... [read more]
Choosing a dance (2000)
The Anangu (how the Indigenous people of the area refer to themselves) women have been invited by Stephen Page to perform at the opening ceremony of the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, and are discussing which dance would best suit ... [read more]
Captains (1987)
An intoxicated man sways before the camera. Three Aboriginal women walk into a games parlour in seedy Kings Cross. They sit at a table and check out the other patrons. Subtitles tell us about 'Captains’ – men who can be ... [read more]
The dead heart (1989)
The great expanse of salt that is Lake Eyre sits 15 metres below sea level with temperatures that can soar to 60 degrees Celsius. For the most part, the Lake Eyre dragons – and the ants they feed on – ... [read more]
Codename Bravo (1985)
On March 1 1954 the United States detonated a nuclear bomb codenamed ‘Bravo’ as part of ‘Operation Castle’. This clip shows excerpts from a propaganda film made by the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) that recorded the nuclear test on ... [read more]
Passing the baton (2003)
Peter Rose recalls that his younger brother Bobby Rose Junior began to show his flair for football from an early age. It was always assumed that both boys would follow their father into the Collingwood Club to play football. [read more]
