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Read, consume and destroy (2003)
John St Vincent Welch was head of the Tobacco Institute of Australia for 15 months from 1991 to 1992. Kerry O’Brien interviews him about the common practice of document retention which in fact was the practice of destroying any documents ... [read more]
‘Why can’t you give yourself?’ (1982)
British embassy staffer Jill Bryant (Sigourney Weaver) tells her new lover Guy Hamilton (Mel Gibson) that a Chinese ship is en route with arms for the Indonesian Communists. She wants him to leave before the country explodes in violence but ... [read more]
Vocational training for returned soldiers (1919)
In 1919 returned First World War soldiers, accompanied by their wives, inspect various forms of vocational training such as building construction, making Sunshine harvesters, assembling cars and bricklaying. The clip begins with the three returned servicemen with their partners ... [read more]
London, the Blitz, April 1941 (1941)
This clip from a home movie taken by Australian Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, captures London during the Blitz. It begins with an intertitle that introduces the subject and records that is ‘London the Blitz April 16th, 1941,’ 25 days ... [read more]
A marriage of cultures (1987)
A brush pushes dots against an all black canvas. Trevor Nickolls tells us about the influences that shape his work. Nickolls refers to the Western machinery and Indigenous cosmology known as the Dreaming. [read more]
Jewish parents (1993)
Three Jewish comedians, Deb Filler from New Zealand, Sandy Gutman (Austen Tayshus) from Melbourne and American Moshe Waldoks, talk about their parents’ experiences in the Second World War concentration camps. [read more]
Canadian turbulence (1983)
Explorer Dick Smith is on a round-the-world solo helicopter flight. He is travelling in northern Canada when he is forced to land because of poor weather. [read more]
Up periscope (1995)
Action stations on board a submarine during the Second World War. After attacking enemy shipping the submarine is under attack from depth charges. Emotional veteran submariners recall being under attack from depth charges. [read more]
Hay citizens’ band (1993)
As the current Hay Citizens’ Band marches and plays, we learn about its 96-year history through stills and archival footage of soldiers leaving for the First World War. [read more]
The promised land (1977)
While Miss Harrington (Jeune Pritchard) and Captain McEwan (Martin Phelan) talk about the future of the colony, the convict women dream of escaping it, to a safer world 'over the mountains’. [read more]
‘Evil side of human nature’ (1991)
Polish journalist Beata Ligman visits Auschwitz concentration camp site for the first time in 1991. She remembers the German treatment of her people during the Second World War. [read more]
Aussie welcome (2004)
African American ex-servicemen recall the friendliness of the Australians during the Second World War in Queensland. Frederick J Smith and Jay Crosby were intrigued by the ritual of teatime. [read more]
You can’t please everyone (1975)
Al Daff says you can’t make pictures that please everybody. He tries to gauge movie audiences’ taste in different regions of the world, and to anticipate any changes in that taste. [read more]
Surfie chic (2003)
Australia is a world leader in surf wear and surf culture. Robert Moore has been designing for Mambo for many years and is one of the best in the business, despite very little art school training. [read more]
Wandjina (2005)
Scotty Martin shows us rock paintings of Wandjina, the ancestor who – in Scotty’s culture – is the being who created the world, giving Aborigines culture and law. Or, as Scotty puts it, 'the boss’. [read more]
Modern appliances (2006)
Electrolux asked design students from around the world to come up with a set of designs for household gadgets for 2020. The result is a collection on show at the Sydney Powerhouse Museum. [read more]
Maurice Chevalier impression (c1931)
On a stage inside Frank Thring’s Efftee Film Studios, veteran stage performer Minnie Love impersonates French comedian and singer Maurice Chevalier singing the songs 'Valentine’ (1924) and 'On Top of the World, Alone’. [read more]
True story (2006)
Rupert Kathner (Ben Mendelsohn) announces his filmmaking vision: a projector atop the tallest city building screening his movies on white clouds in the sky, the entire world his audience. [read more]
Australian wilderness (1980)
Bob Brown paddles along the tranquil final stretches of the Franklin River. This is as it must have looked even before the first Europeans arrived in Tasmania. [read more]
Creating a new life (1963)
A montage of images, including stills and illustrations, shows the first fleet of convicts and their military guards after landing at Sydney Cove in 1788. Under the leadership of Governor Phillip, they begin building a town as the first step ... [read more]
