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Home dentistry for Dad Rudd (1932)
Mrs Rudd (Alfreda Bevan) tries to welcome Mrs White (Dorothy Dunkley) to her humble home, but Dad Rudd (Bert Bailey) scares her away when he appears in his nightshirt. He is driven mad by toothache, so Dave (Fred McDonald), Uncle ... [read more]
Rehearse, perform, perform (1988)
Australian dancer Betty Pounder recalls the days when she would rehearse a new show in the morning, dance in a pantomime in the afternoon and dance in a different show at night. [read more]
The new Felicity (1978)
Felicity’s rebellion is now in full swing. She has taken to wearing leathers and breaking into other people’s houses. After a night in Centennial Park, she discovers an old naked man lying near death in a derelict house. In him, ... [read more]
‘Police work is people’ (1993)
Maggie Doyle (Lisa McCune) and Wayne Patterson (Grant Bowler) arrive at the property of Old Man Doherty to follow up on some unpaid parking fines and find more than they bargained for in the form of a vicious german shepherd. ... [read more]
Keith the battler (1984)
Keith Shoesmith is father to six children. Publican Bob McKimmin says Keith is a likeable bloke. [read more]
‘Near and yet-so-far neighbours’ (1970)
Jack Anderson (Tony Ward) and Gillian O’Keefe (Judy Leech) live on opposite sides of the Maribyrnong Creek. Jack lives in squalor with his mother (Jean Higgs) and long-term lodger Stanley (Stanley Randall), a war pensioner. Gillian lives with her middle-class ... [read more]
Growing up with theatre (1997)
Wole Soyinka grew up with the traditional theatre of Nigeria. He became attracted to creating theatre in both the African and British traditions, although he insists he didn’t set out to blend the two. His own work is a product ... [read more]
One day, I’ll be ready for you (1996)
Boon Boon (Rebecca Gibney) returns the young foals to the herd, and Thowra (John Higginson) is watching. When the spy Currawong (Michael Carmen) reports this, The Brolga (John Stanton) puts on an aggressive display. Thowra remembers his father, the great ... [read more]
Band of brothers (1917)
Infantry and transport now move up through Bapaume, a short time after its occupation by the Australian 30th Battalion on 17 March 1917 (see clip two). On 19 March, the band of the 5th Australian Infantry Brigade plays in the ... [read more]
In the lab (2011)
Lucy (Emily Browning) submits to a medical experiment involving a narrow tube being inserted down her throat. [read more]
‘We all have to compromise’ (1982)
Newspaper publisher Mary Ford has disappeared, in suspicious circumstances. Developer Peter Houseman (Chris Haywood) appeals to building union boss Mick Davies (Dennis Miller) to lift his union’s ban. In a meeting with Kate Dean (Judy Davis) and his lawyer Philip ... [read more]
The laundromat and the coffee shop (2002)
Locals come up with an original idea to solve a problem of access to laundry facilities; a community laudromat and coffee shop combined. It’s been going for a year and has brought a disparate community of isolated individuals together. [read more]
The SETI project (1994)
Mike (Zbych Trofimiuk) is dismayed to find that Nikki (Petra Jared) is more interested in listening to Shane (Che Broadbent) explain his SETI project, than listen to his new Jimi Hendrix CD. [read more]
Quarrying limestone (c1926)
This clip begins with a shot of a steam shovel collecting the limestone rubble from the quarry and emptying it into large bins for transport. A man in the foreground of the frame shovels the smaller pieces of rubble into ... [read more]
Nirvana (1997)
Zemka is the mother of twelve year-old Nirvana who has been killed by a shell in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War. She looks at the footage of her now-deceased daughter dancing that filmmakers Tahir Cambis and Alma Sahbaz had only ... [read more]
Introducing Fred Hollows (1992)
A quick film portrait of Australia’s famous eye surgeon, using a montage of archival media coverage from the time when Hollows was made Australian of the Year. [read more]
Conversion (c1920)
This Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1920 shows the commencement of work at Victoria Parade for the electrification of the cable tram system of Collins Street, Melbourne. [read more]
Word play with Lotis (1992)
Poss (Erin Pratten) and Kim (Maria Nguyen) go into the lift, which is personified as Lotis, an artificial intelligence that talks to the children and can take them anywhere. When the girls talk about riding, Lotis opens the lift doors ... [read more]
Canvas city begins to take shape (1963)
The aims of the Operation Blowdown test are set out and the troops clear a site in the Cape York rainforest for the location of the test team. [read more]
‘No killing, no injuries, no mines’ (2004)
This clip is taken from the last few minutes of the film. Habiba is a victim of a landmine in Afghanistan who now has an artificial leg as a result. She speaks movingly about her wish for an end to ... [read more]
