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Mao suit (1997)

Fashion in China has changed from the blue and grey Mao suit to a new world of contemporary fashion. [read more]

No more drudgery (1992)

The new world of computer animation is explained by reporter Tracey Curro, who shows us how movements of the human body are recorded on a series of cameras. This gives the animation director a full 360-degree view of the motion ... [read more]

‘I come from a land down under’ (1981)

Men at Work sing about travelling the world and what it means to come 'from a land down under’. [read more]

Sound of the nineties (1989)

This is the opening sequence, with the band playing one of their hit songs, ‘Nobody tells me what to do’, before moving into the story, with Jenny (Rebecca Blomberg) and Pugwall (Jason Torrens) in the school grounds. [read more]

Cleaning up the land (1997)

An elder speaks about the effects of tourism, and the responsibility of cleaning up the land. [read more]

It’s all in the lighting (2004)

A beautiful model becomes a vision when her hair is dressed and she’s lit for a fashion shoot. [read more]

Dorothy meets the Good Fairy (1976)

Dorothy (Joy Dunstan) wakes up in a strange town after a car accident. In a dress shop run by the 'Good Fairy’ (Robin Ramsay), she learns she has killed the 'town hood’. The Fairy rewards her with a beautiful pair ... [read more]

Yeeralparil tries to be tricky (2006)

We are now in the older story, right back with the first ancestors. Ridjimiraril (Crusoe Kurddal) has gone hunting because his three wives are acting up. Banalandju (Sonia Djarrabalminym) and Nowalingu (Francis Djulibing) fight with each other. When all the ... [read more]

‘Just the way it is’ (2007)

The Anderson and Parker families go into the town for the day, for much-needed supplies. Ed Anderson (Xavier Samuel) and his friend Paddy Parker (Clarence John Ryan) go to the pictures, where a newsreel tells the latest news of Lionel ... [read more]

Removal of the columns (1942)

This unedited mute, black-and-white footage shows the columns of the Sydney GPO clock tower being removed in 1942. [read more]

‘What about the children?’ (1986)

Hughie (Martyn Sanderson), deputised by his wife to talk to Charlie (Shane Connor) about his Aboriginal origins, tries to put his concerns in terms of the children but only succeeds in alerting Charlie to the fact that Roie really does ... [read more]

A wild and desperate place (1983)

The frozen waste of the Kiandra goldfield was one of the few in Australia to welcome the Chinese diggers. It also witnessed the start to Australia’s ski fields and winter sports industry, with the country’s first ski club opening there ... [read more]

The President goes down (1984)

In 1942 the ocean liner President Coolidge was carrying troops and equipment to Espiritu Santo. She accidentally struck two allied mines and sank. Initially it was thought that the ship would stay on the reef, but water filled the holds ... [read more]

Travelling up the Strickland River (1979)

Malcolm Douglas travels up the Strickland River, a tributary of the Fly River, and meets the Bagwa men of Papua New Guinea. The Bagwa pull Douglas’s motorboat through the thick grassy swamp and invite him to join them on a ... [read more]

The Alan Jones program (1995)

Sydney radio 'shock jock’ Alan Jones broadcasts his daily program for ordinary Australians. He specialises in contentious and volatile issues and exaggerates them to achieve high ratings. The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Robert Tickner, comments that his department is kept ... [read more]

‘The gods are angry’ (2003)

The Balinese people believe that the bombing of a nightclub was a sign of displeasure by the gods. Psychiatrist Dr Denny Thong explains the feeling of the people. A temple priest, Mangku Sakenan, explains that a ceremony is held to ... [read more]

The beach and swimming hole (c1922)

The camera pans across Sorrento’s back beach and rocks area capturing people wading in the shallow pools of water. A kidney shaped rock pool is filled with onlookers and swimmers alike. Close up shots of the ‘ole swimmin’ hole’ capture ... [read more]

Up the east coast (1954)

The cars make it to the checkpoint at Maryborough before heading north through sugarcane country to Bundaberg. Some of the entrants arrive in Bundaberg – the second scheduled checkpoint – where crowds line the streets to watch them pass. The ... [read more]

The building of a dream (1954)

Once the site for the oil refinery has been identified, the work begins. The land is surveyed, grass is burned off and the land is cleared. Meanwhile, ‘the dream comes true in miniature’ as a model layout of the refinery ... [read more]

Changeover at Mawson, 1960 (1961)

Work begins as soon as the ship Thala Dan arrives at Mawson Station, early in 1960. A total of 33 men are to spend a year in Antarctica at Australia’s first two bases, Davis and Mawson. At Mawson, they begin ... [read more]

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