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Kings saved by Ransom (1950)
The King family is about to turn back, defeated by dry waterholes, when they meet a government patrol officer. Ransom (Michael Pate) tells them where to find water. He and Wally (Chips Rafferty) then discuss the King family’s new land ... [read more]
‘I can cope with that’ (1998)
Concert pianist, Hephzibah Menuhin (1920-1981) and her brother violinist Yehudi Menuhin are backstage after a performance. Heirs to the Aspro fortune, Lindsay and Nola Nicholas meet them and within months Hephzibah marries Lindsay and Nola marries Yehudi. Shirley Nicholas, Lindsay’s ... [read more]
An evening at home (1950)
This is taken from a sequence depicting the domestic routine of a family evening spent at home. Clarke arranges it into a narrative which begins with a train pulling into Wahroonga station, and includes scenes of shopping, driving, cooking, and ... [read more]
Childhood remembered (2005)
Black-and-white photos of the parents of the filmmaker, Colin and Gloria Johnston. Both parents recount their childhood, and when they first met. [read more]
Stereotyping at Fairfax (1911)
This clip shows two men at Fairfax creating a block for a page of the Sydney Morning Herald, then making a matrix from the type with the use of a stereotyping technique. [read more]
‘Rally for justice’ (1995)
In a publicity stunt engineered by the radio station, a Perth 'shock jock’ radio announcer, Howard Sattler, invited his audience to a rally outside Parliament in 1991 to protest against juvenile crime. When Sattler is confronted with the reality that ... [read more]
‘It was my 98th day on the wagon’. (1981)
Michael Stacey (Ray Barrett) introduces himself and his milieu – the beautiful beach of Surfer’s Paradise on the Gold Coast and a town full of ugly buildings. He is a once drunken, now disgraced, former senior cop trying to write ... [read more]
‘Our way to socialism’ (1997)
Filmmaker Solrun Hoaas ventures onto the streets of North Korea to do some impromptu filming and sees some children gathered on a street corner before the start of school. In what becomes a common instance, she attracts the attention of ... [read more]
‘Hitta da ball – smasha da win’ (1927)
Fatty and his friends are being chased by an irate Italian man after Fatty hit a cricket ball through his window. Constable Claffey (Leonard Durell), who bowled the ball, pretends to be uninvolved, after hiding with ‘Seasy’ (Billy Ireland), the ... [read more]
Wave Hill walkout (1993)
Kevin Carmody and Paul Kelly discuss the song 'From Little Things Big Things Grow’. They also discuss the Wave Hill walkout, when the Gurindji people – led by Vincent Lingiari – went on strike to get their land back from ... [read more]
Losing your head (1971)
Grant (Gary Bond) has succumbed to the temptation of two-up. Flushed with success, he sees the chance to win enough money to buy out his $1,000 bond with the education department. That would mean never going back to the one-room ... [read more]
Once a thriving river port (1976)
Peach strolls around banks of the Darling River in Bourke with local historian Alan Barton, telling of the time when the town was a thriving port. As Peach explains, Bourke, in the central west of New South Wales, was once ... [read more]
Caterpillar (2004)
Thomas Stevens, Max Stuart and Peter Renehan all speak about the importance of the custodianship of the land, and explain that when the land is not cared for, the people get sick. [read more]
About this superhero thing – we’re in! (2002)
When they accept the task to take on the legacy of The Silver Shadow to save the world, Josh (Alex Hopkins), Alex (Hannah Greenwood), Campbell (Aljin Abella), and Gretel (Sage Butler) also agree to live double lives from now on. ... [read more]
‘Where have you been?’ (1985)
Fran (Noni Hazlehurst) has disappeared, leaving her friend and neighbour Marge (Annie Byron) to look after Fran’s three kids. When Fran returns home after three nights away, she introduces Jeff (Alan Fletcher), a barman she picked up on the first ... [read more]
‘Some things in life you just can’t control’ (2006)
Katrina (Emily Barclay) flies into a rage after an argument with Rusty (Michael Dorman), her boyfriend. When she finds her car blocked in, she dumps her baby and takes the keys to his most prized possession, a Valiant Charger. At ... [read more]
Shearing and plotting (1933)
As the shearing reaches full speed at Waratah Station, the overseer Fletcher (Les Warton) tells Clive Sherrington (John Warwick) to deliver a package from the car when he goes to see Morgan. He jokes that it contains ‘baby food’ for ... [read more]
Environment versus progress (1996)
Christine starts to build her house constructed from recycled materials in idyllic Byron Bay. Her world is shattered when the local council approves a quarry next to her house that will mine for gravel for 23 years and create noise. [read more]
Tea’s up (1968)
Musgrave Station is a busy crossroads in the far north of Queensland. Every day, planes come into the station airfield to refuel. Both passengers and pilots find a ready cup of tea from the station owner’s wife, Mary Hales. She ... [read more]
Remembering mother (1983)
Lisa (Alyson Best) is getting dressed after her weekly strip for Charles (Norman Kaye) when she notices a photograph of a woman on the wall and asks him who it is. He tells her it’s his mother. What follows is ... [read more]
