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How to shoot down the enemy (1919)

Australian Flying Corps cadets learn the art of machine-gun shooting with model targets in a training camp in England, during or just after the First World War. They practise on a range at first, then seated in an aeroplane. Trainee ... [read more]

White river of life (c1950)

This 10-minute film, seen here in full, extols the health benefits of drinking and cooking with milk. At Parramatta Girls’ Home Science School, one girl daydreams what a world without milk might be like. Dairy is advocated as one of ... [read more]

What is a woman? (1992)

Andrea Stretton is talking to Germaine Greer about her new book The Change: Women, Ageing and the Menopause (1991), which is proving just as controversial as her previous work. In the interview, Greer suggests that a woman’s mental state might ... [read more]

The dugong that won’t die (1978)

Peter (John Hargreaves) and Marcia (Briony Behets) drive down the beach to check out the other campers; they are missing, but their van is visible in the breakers. Peter swims out to investigate and sees the body of a girl ... [read more]

Winter in Oahu (1972)

On Oahu’s north shore, some of the best competitive surfers in the world take off on winter’s big surf. [read more]

Mao suit (1997)

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

Cold return home (2004)

African American ex-servicemen recall returning to prejudice and hatred by white Americans at the end of the Second World War. [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]

Economy in Germany (c1915)

This clip begins with the title card Cartoons of the Moment followed by a scene of cartoonist Harry Julius sketching at an easel. A group of children run up to him and watch as he sketches. The three animated political ... [read more]

The Birdsville Track (1954)

A pan across a skeleton-littered desert of ‘prehistoric bones’ sets the scene. As the camera sweeps across this vast landscape, the voice-over narration tells of the Aborigines, explorers, settlers, prospectors and drovers who travelled up and down the land defying ... [read more]

A boxer, butler and black detective (1918)

Jimmy Cook (Sandy McVea), an Aboriginal detective, has been assigned to the Special Service to help Jack Airlie (Snowy Baker) crack a ring of German spies operating in Australia during the First World War. On Sunday morning, Jack’s butler Glassop ... [read more]

Export Holden (c1962)

This advertisement opens with a row of Holden cars, soon to be loaded by crane onto ship. As the narrator lists the Asia-Pacific territories that Holden has been exported to, we see footage of Hong Kong’s harbour, a Holden showroom ... [read more]

Thinking for itself (2006)

Reporter Hayden Turner is meeting ASIMO, the world’s most sophisticated robot. It has been created by a car company in a secret laboratory in Japan, where the reporter is not even allowed to show the faces of the engineers ... [read more]

The car of the future (2006)

Frank Rinderknecht is the CEO of Rinspeed Inc and he designs the cars of the future. This one is a Porsche-inspired concept car with huge six piston carbon fibre brakes and the world’s first holographic brake light. [read more]

Freezing the meadow (1997)

Arktos, the villainous but silly snowman, implements his dastardly plan to freeze over the world with ice and snow to create a winter wasteland. [read more]

Australia’s wild shores (1987)

Jack Thompson introduces us to two Melbourne businessmen passionate about their hang-gliding. They’re out to break the world record recently set by an American. [read more]

Viewpoint (1965)

A woman (June Salter) who lost her husband in the Second World War worries that she will lose her son in Vietnam, after the introduction of conscription. [read more]

Meet the mite (2009)

Close-ups of healthy honeybees in action as well as bees infected with Varroa destructor precede a short cut-out stop motion-style digital animation detailing the arrival of the Varroa mite from Asia to Europe and across the globe. Dr Denis Anderson, ... [read more]

A man from Snowy River (1948)

In this clip, filmed in 1948, a 'man from Snowy River’ swaps his horse and his bushman’s life for a bulldozer and employment on the Snowy Mountains Scheme. While on one level reflecting the technological change affecting the Snowy Mountains ... [read more]

Farming classes at Dookie Agricultural College (1919)

This clip from a brief documentary shows an observational look at returned First World War servicemen in 1919 as they train to be farmers at Dookie Agricultural College and commence work at Merbein, Victoria. It begins with a title card ... [read more]

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