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‘500 dollars just goes nowhere’ (1975)

Sitting out the front of the Collingwood Community School, amongst some of the students who are gathered around him, a staff member talks to camera about the limited resources the school has to work with. With only minor support from ... [read more]

Towards a new age (1946)

The clip shows this Liberal Party cinema advertisement, for the 28 September 1946 federal election, in its entirety. The ad presents the post-Second World War period as potentially a time of great possibility for the Australian people. It argues that ... [read more]

Pearl overboard (1937)

A Torres Strait Island crew member aboard the ‘Dugong’ finds a large pearl as Daubenny (Lloyd Hughes) returns from the deep in his diving suit. The crew members cheer for joy, attracting the jealous attention of Mendoza (Ronald Whelan), who’s ... [read more]

‘Go you Yagoona no-names’ (2006)

In the dressing rooms, the Yagoona Schooners are paralysed with fear because they have to play a team stacked with rugby league legends. Luc’s grandfather (Dao Minh Sinh) and his room-mate Bob (Leslie Dayman) leave the nursing home to join ... [read more]

A daring and unusual film (2006)

Margaret Pomeranz is reviewing the new Rolf de Heer film Ten Canoes. Excerpts from the film illustrate her words. [read more]

Movietone News titles (1945)

This clip is from the opening sequence for the Australian edition of Fox Movietone News, showing the laughing kookaburras. A superimposed graphic reads '20th Century Fox presents’ followed by 'Movietone News’ in block letters. The Movietone News graphic remains on ... [read more]

Everything like a dream (1965)

Nick (George Dixon) is on the run from the police. Margot (Janina Lebedew) and her father (Claude Thomas) stop to help. [read more]

Operation Overland pipeline (1954)

As part of Operation Overland, a man dressed in diving gear is lowered into the water to work on the 36-mile oil pipeline. Workers drain parts of the Werribee River so the line can be placed under the riverbed. The ... [read more]

Cattle drive (2008)

The Drover (Hugh Jackman) prepares to lead the Faraway Downs cattle to Darwin. He explains the rules to Lady Ashley (Nicole Kidman), Nullah (Brandon Walters), Bandy Legs (Lillian Crombie), Kipling Flynn (Jack Thompson) and the rest of the team. [read more]

Gough opens Dahlia and Arts Festival (1973)

In Bendigo assisting with the Labor Party’s campaign for the May 1973 Victorian state elections, Gough Whitlam opens the 2nd Eaglehawk Dahlia and Arts Festival. [read more]

Selling Aboriginal art (1998)

The clip shows Aboriginal artists in Port Keats, Northern Territory, acting as their own agents to sell their art direct to customers. Greg Willard, manager of the Port Keats Art Centre says that some of the work being painted for ... [read more]

Birthright (1993)

The narrator explains over black-and-white drawings that the missionaries frowned on what they saw as a heathen custom of women and men ‘riding the waves of heaven’ and the activity of surfing languished for a time. But surfing eventually again ... [read more]

November victory (1955)

On 8 November 1954, Federal Parliament authorised a Bill to secure the right of employers to recruit labour for the waterfront, overturning the tradition of waterside labour being picked by the union. This clip dramatises the campaign that made the ... [read more]

Defining boundaries (1988)

Speaking to camera, Lorraine Mafi-Williams introduces us to Mrs Millie Boyd, the custodian of three major tribal boundaries in the far north coast of NSW. The Bundjalung (around Lismore), Githabul (Kyogle to Woodenbong), across inland over to the coast ... [read more]

Street procession, Townsville (c1934)

A procession of 500 participants (both men and women) ride the streets of Townsville to start the rodeo to be held at nearby Mt St John. A brass band marches and crowds gather to watch the parade. Men standing on ... [read more]

Manufacturing a teapot (c1920)

A ten-tonne drawing press shapes the body of a teapot. A jeweller and two others watch a workman operate the machine and admire its product. The teapot body is then passed to another machine which cuts off the ‘scrap’ around ... [read more]

Welcome to Faireezia (2005)

This is the Faireez series theme song that opens each episode. It introduces and reinforces the setting, characters and back-story. [read more]

Goodbye sunny New South Wales (c1917)

Soldiers are despatched to the front during the First World War in a public parade in Sydney to encourage recruitment. [read more]

Terra nullius (1989)

Professor Garth Nettheim presents historic background to the Murray Island case accompanied by footage of the Torres Strait Islands. [read more]

Garbage disposal (c1928)

Dramatised scenarios illustrate the right and wrong methods for disposing of garbage. Two men dump rubbish on the lawn next to the truck. The 'health inspector’ walks over with his hands on his hips, unimpressed. The accepted method for disposal ... [read more]

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