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Traditions and customs (1959)
To give a feast for the visiting Commissioner, the villagers use vines to catch thousands of fish. It is a community effort, with each villager given a role. They make a big circle around part of the lagoon and tie ... [read more]
Better than watching (2005)
A map shows the path of the Finke Desert Race, starting in Alice Springs to the community of Finke 229 kilometres away. The racers stop for the night, then do the return ride the next day. Bernard Singer, Jamie Nyaningu ... [read more]
How to be a country music star (1995)
Music professionals give advice about succeeding as a country music star. [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]
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]
Ord Noah revisited (1976)
Harry Butler has come back to north-east Western Australia, to Lake Argyle, made from the damming of the Ord River. Five years before, he was part of the team called 'Ord Noah’, brought in to save native fauna from the ... [read more]
‘Torment and disunity’ (1998)
This clip shows black and white footage of Hephzibah Menuhin performing (privately) on the piano. Her letters, read in voice-over, talk of the disintegration of her marriage to Lindsay Nicholas. In interview, her brother Yehudi Menuhin recalls that period and ... [read more]
Tall Timbers (1988)
Ken G Hall talks about directing the 1930s feature film Tall Timbers (1937). He discusses the difficulties of creating a 'spectacle’ in the studio, but says everyone was satisfied by the result. [read more]
Wheel of fortune (1990)
The show’s opening features the major prize, a Holden Apollo car, as centrepiece of a veritable feast of ‘exciting prizes just waiting to be won’. A disembodied voice-over (John Deeks) introduces host John Burgess, who introduces co-host Adriana Xenides and ... [read more]
‘Felicity is a girl of delicate sensibility’ (1978)
In a flashback, Doris (Ruth Cracknell) plots the marriage of her daughter Felicity (Kerry Walker) to a rising young Canberra diplomat, John (John Derum). Felicity is late home, so Doris tries to entice John with her home-cooked duck. [read more]
‘We’d have to start to get political’ (2008)
Narrator Rachael Perkins gives national and international political context to the times of Edward ‘Koiki’ Mabo. A voice-over, derived from Eddie’s diaries and the recollections of his family, give reasons as to why he began his fight for rights. [read more]
Arriving at Aileron (1970)
Bob Randall drives his wife Amy, her cousin Florence and their children from Darwin to Aileron to enable the women to visit their mothers and family. [read more]
Golfing sarong (1950)
A woman dressed in golfing attire practices her golf swing as a female voice-over explains the features of the ‘Sarong’ girdle the woman is wearing beneath her clothes. The action freezes as the camera zooms in and ‘sees through’ the ... [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]
‘I can see lawnmowers’ (1985)
In the year 1770, Captain James Cook (Rob Sitch) and Joseph Banks (Michael Veitch) approach Australia on their ship. They imagine the future of the country as they decide whether to land. [read more]
‘Australia through Aboriginal eyes’ (1992)
This clip includes the ending of the speech. This is the section where Keating continues with his message of hope for significant change in Australian society. He outlines some of the changes that he can see already, such as a ... [read more]
A big boy for his age (1973)
Sixteen-year-old Alvin Purple (Graeme Blundell) is chased through the streets by excited schoolgirls on bicycles. He finds refuge in the arms of Mrs Horwood (Jill Forster), wife of his teacher. [read more]
Stencil art (1984)
Grahame Walsh, an expert in stencil art, explores Carnarvon Gorge to find evidence of occupation by Aboriginal people 20,000 years ago. [read more]
‘This is not easy’ (1996)
The mother (Celine O’Leary) sits watching her daughter’s angry drawing. She has come to tell her that her father is moving out. The child carries on a conversation that her mother can’t hear – a series of denials. Her father ... [read more]
Sexy pheromones (1994)
Cockroaches attract each other by pheromones. We get to witness the male in a mating ritual and copulation process that takes one to two hours. In one year the happily married couple can produce 400,000 descendents. [read more]
