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The jealous husband returns (1976)
Evan (Kit Taylor) storms back into the party as his wife Kerry (Candy Raymond) is having sex with Cooley (Harold Hopkins), a serial seducer. Cooley flees in his underpants, chased by Evan, but Kerry puts a public stop to her ... [read more]
Adoption (2001)
Dael finds the pool a comfort during unsuccessful IVF treatment. She and her husband adopt a Korean child. The pool is the centre of their social life. [read more]
Java in the 1930s (c1933)
Local Javanese and Europeans are gathered around two Rolls Royce vehicles which are loaded with the travelling party’s belongings. Javanese villagers are filmed walking along a road and washing at a water fountain. The tropical terrain is also shown. [read more]
‘Society won’t look after us’ (2006)
Voices from resident protests against St Kilda’s street prostitution are juxtaposed with images of sex workers on the neighbourhood’s streets. Gillian, sporting a black eye, talks about an encounter with a bad client. [read more]
Lonesome for you, mother dear (1939)
Buddy Williams sings a sad song about a man missing his dead mother. This clip is from the start of the song. [read more]
A major medical emergency (2006)
A group of senior lifeguards just happen to be standing at the edge of the water for a photo shoot when they’re told there’s been a man found floating lifeless in the surf. The lifeguards swing into action to bring ... [read more]
Social justice (1991)
Michael Leunig sees our inability to say 'enough is enough’ as a problem while John Howard considers it to be the acceptable price of progress. [read more]
Melbourne Chinese Orchestra (1931)
This clip shows eight members of the Melbourne Chinese Orchestra performing at Efftee Film Studios in 1931. A stage curtain parts to reveal the orchestra on stage together with some Chinese props. After a wide shot of the whole ensemble, ... [read more]
Razorback rampage (1984)
Carl Winters (Gregory Harrison) is attacked by the razorback at the Pet Pak factory. He tells Sarah Cameron (Arkie Whiteley) to run for her life. [read more]
Triumph and tragedy (2003)
At the height of his success in discovering the significance of what was once called 'junk DNA’, or non-coding DNA, Dr Malcolm Simons is diagnosed with a life-threatening cancer. [read more]
On the war in Iraq (2004)
At a conference in Jakarta, Malcolm Fraser speaks out against going to war in Iraq. [read more]
A forbidden love (2005)
Anne and Trish, the sisters of the filmmaker, speak about the racism experienced by their father Colin when he first began dating their mother Gloria. [read more]
The brilliant Dr Plonk (2007)
Dr Plonk (Nigel Lunghi) and his mute assistant, Paulus (Paul Blackwell), are working in Plonk’s laboratory. Mrs Plonk (Magda Szubanski) slips on a banana skin discarded by Paulus. [read more]
An epic flight (1964)
This clip recounts the story of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and his aeroplane the Southern Cross. It includes archival footage of the record-breaking 1928 trip across the Pacific with Smithy and his colleague Charles Ulm, and their arrival in Honolulu. [read more]
Don’t emphasise the disability (1998)
Mick is preparing to depart overseas to perform at a disabled arts festival in Japan. His carer (who appears to be his sister) has bought him some new shoes to go with the outfit he’ll wear for Big Bag’s performance. [read more]
Stolen (2004)
A mailbox large in the foreground, a house small in the back. Rosalie in voice-over tells us about her experiences of being an Aboriginal child in white foster care. Rosalie begins to tell us of the abuse she has had ... [read more]
The poet as novelist (1988)
This clip is from an interview Dinny O’Hearn conducted with David Malouf that ranges widely across his writing. He talks about writing two books concurrently and discusses his earliest novels, Johnno (1975) and An Imaginary Life (1978). [read more]
Cinderella (c1947)
This clip depicts a marionette theatre performance of the fairytale Cinderella. It begins with a pop-up book depicting scenes from the story and then the marionettes perform the tale. It shows the puppeteers above the stage operating the marionettes and ... [read more]
School (2004)
Ricco sits amongst a group of children roughly the same age as himself. They are learning about maps of the world, as well as Warlpiri. [read more]
‘Voices in the dark’ (2006)
John (Mark Constable) believes he has seen Tom (Don Barker), his dead uncle. He hides his thoughts from wife Emily (Victoria Hill), who begins to suspect something is wrong. [read more]
