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Tribute to a great Australian man of film (2004)

John Dingwall has just died and Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton speak warmly of his long career. [read more]

‘Dad got the sack, did he?’ (1985)

John Riordan (Tony Llewellyn Jones) has lost his job. Joe (Christopher Schlusser) hears about a job as a paperboy selling newspapers on the street. He is warned that is a rough job – the last boy ended up in hospital ... [read more]

The honeymooners return (1929)

This clip is part two in a three-part, serialised Bushells tea cinema advertisement. It shows the newly-married couple returning from their honeymoon on a cruise ship, proving that the tea reading in part one has come true. As they enter ... [read more]

The final report (2009)

Channel Seven reporter Greg Shackleton (Damon Gameau) files a story from a village near the fighting. [read more]

The American arrives (1990)

Official trial observer US Major Beckett (Terry O’Quinn) arrives on the same plane as the key defendant, Vice-Admiral Baron Takahashi (George Takei). Beckett and the tribunal’s Australian prosecutor, Captain Cooper (Bryan Brown), soon clash. [read more]

The photographic room (1928)

In what appears to be a photographic room, a man delivers a plate to be processed. It is heated over a panel and then placed in a press. It is then carried over to an enclosed box possibly containing developing ... [read more]

The Surprise Spruiker (2006)

Andrew Hansen introduces his new segment, 'The Surprise Spruiker’, in which a bargain store-style spruiker arrives at different businesses and organisations and tries to sell their wares to the general public. [read more]

From the sheep’s back to bicycles (1938)

This clip from a home movie taken by Dr Ewan Murray-Will shows part of the parade in Sydney to celebrate Australia’s 150th anniversary of white settlement. It begins with a float celebrating the wool industry. This is followed by various ... [read more]

60,000 km around the world (1983)

Explorer Dick Smith arrives at Fort Worth, USA, completing his solo voyage around the world by helicopter. Press and family greet him. [read more]

‘The biggest sing-sing ever heard in New Guinea’ (1956)

McAllister (Chips Rafferty) asks the nearby highland tribes to perform a traditional 'sing-sing’, or ceremonial dance, in order to flatten the grass for an airstrip. Hundreds of warriors oblige, dressed in full regalia, staging a mock battle in the process. [read more]

The fatal hour (1938)

This clip shows a foreman and his worker ending work early for the day. They rush down to the pub ‘as fast as a radio announcer after English humour magazines on mail day’ to get in before the doors shut ... [read more]

At the greengrocer (2003)

Phaedra (Susan Prior) nervously turns up to deliver a love poem to the greengrocer she fancies (Tia has told her she’d had sex with him – devastating to the sexually timid Phaedra). She finds the courage to go ahead, but ... [read more]

Allergic to the 20th century (1997)

Eve has an allergic response to insecticides, cleaning agents and preserved small goods. Diana reacts badly to the chemicals in newsprint. Michael has an adverse response to the chemicals in tap water. [read more]

‘Women are never true’ (1996)

Sandra, the hospital deputy (Kerry Walker), goes backstage on opening night to introduce the show, unaware that they will perform Così Fan Tutte, not a variety show. Her confusion becomes highly audible as the curtain goes up. Doug (David Wenham), ... [read more]

Along the Murray River (c1920)

A team of rowers pass under the Swan Hill drawbridge on the Murray River. A paddle-steamer takes passengers down the Murray River. Different angles from the steamer capture views of the Murray River and the surrounding landscape. In this clip ... [read more]

The English cricket team (1932)

The English captain, Douglas Jardine, practices his driving techniques at the Perth cricket ground. Maurice Leyland stands at the wicket and works on his batting form. Herbert Suttcliffe stands in front of the camera before walking across the ground. Other ... [read more]

Songs in the paints (2007)

The artist explains that he thought his use of the image, including his choice of colours, was pretty harmless, but the traditional owners highlight the laws and customs surrounding the reproduction of the Wandjina imagery including the use of colour. [read more]

‘This is the real world, Eddie!’ (2005)

Eddie (David Wenham) and his wife Tanya (Frances O’Connor) argue one morning about money. She has lost her contract at the university, and hasn’t been able to tell him. He has always been the practical one of the two, but ... [read more]

‘The baker’s dozen’ (1996)

This clip describes how Alexander Riley tracked and caught the murderer Andrew Moss in 1939. [read more]

The mug politician (1991)

Jim McClelland had been a minister in the Whitlam Labor Government (1972-1975). He talks to Dinny O’Hearn about being a politician and his naivety in thinking that this meant changing the country. Instead he discovered that it’s all about power. [read more]

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