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Boer War Transvaal contingent (1899)
This actuality footage was taken by the official photographer of the Queensland Department of Agriculture, Frederick Charles Wills, and his assistant, Henry William Mobsby in 1899. Crowds line the streets to watch the First Queensland Cavalry Contingent parade just before ... [read more]
Boys’ boarding school (1981)
Michael Blakemore remembers that excellence in sport was the main criteria for success in his boarding school. [read more]
The rice farm (1991)
Filmmaker Dennis O’Rourke offers to buy Thai prostitute Aoi a rice farm if she will stop practising prostitution. Aoi gives her response. [read more]
‘We really got the short straw, didn’t we?’ (1988)
Johnno (Damien Walters) releases crabs from their traps which angers the fishers. His sister Julie (Rebecca Sykes) tries to protect Johnno but his father (John Waters) is furious. [read more]
Being polite to a platypus (1977)
The kangaroo introduces Dot to Mr and Mrs Platypus, who are difficult to be polite to, because they are easy to offend. Mr Platypus (voiced by Spike Milligan) gives Dot a history lesson. Mrs Platypus (June Salter) corrects her pronunciation ... [read more]
‘What makes Australians tough’ (1933)
Mary Townleigh (Shirley Dale) has been found after being briefly lost in the bush. The Hayseeds open their home, and Dad Hayseed (Cecil Kellaway) suggests they stay until she is better. Mr Townleigh (Kenneth Brampton) doesn’t wish to be any ... [read more]
Eventide (1950)
At Eventide – the government-run home for the aged and infirm – a Brisbane City Mission welfare officer pays a visit to those within the ground’s hospital wards. The nursing matron is shown while the voice-over narration highlights the importance ... [read more]
‘American girls love Mel Gibson’ (1983)
Australian actress Olivia Newton-John talks about the popularity of Australian films and Mel Gibson in this 1983 documentary. An extract is included from The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) and a young Mel Gibson is interviewed. [read more]
David the recidivist (1999)
David has absconded from a youth training centre. He talks about how he just wants to live his own way, while his case officers discuss his criminal activities and his future. [read more]
‘Greater prosperity for Australia’ (c1948)
The clip shows newly constructed supply and drainage ditches; a wheel which measures the quantity and supply of water to the irrigation blocks; water ditches; lush pastures made possible by planned irrigation; grazing livestock including sheep, cattle and pigs; and ... [read more]
A family dilemma (1993)
The war has ended in El Salvador and the Robles family have some choices to make. While Maria has adapted well and has found a fulfilling job, her husband Carlos longs to return to El Salvador. The family dilemma is ... [read more]
MV Tampa and September 11 (2004)
News footage of the Norwegian freighter MV Tampa carrying over 400 rescued asylum seekers off the coast of Australia is accompanied in a split-screen by barrister Julian Burnside QC who outlines the international laws protecting asylum seekers. The events of ... [read more]
Surfie chic (2003)
Australia is a world leader in surf wear and surf culture. Robert Moore has been designing for Mambo for many years and is one of the best in the business, despite very little art school training. [read more]
Dancing sarong (1950)
A woman in a dress dances to cocktail music 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 woman’s ... [read more]
Henry ‘Breaker’ Morant (1973)
Using stock footage to accompany the voice-over, the narrator tells us, in detail, of the disputed circumstances of Morant’s birth in England, and of his arrival in Australia in 1884. We learn that as a young man in Western ... [read more]
Shark attack in Georges River (1939)
This clip shows Beryl Morrin who had both her arms amputated after a shark attack in the Georges River on New Years Day, 1935. She was only 13 at the time. Four years after the attack, Beryl is shown riding ... [read more]
Consciousness in animals (2000)
We see Professor Rogers teaching in a laboratory while we hear in voice-over about her research into the left and right brain functions of animals. Rogers explains that asymmetry in animals seems to prove that they experience some sort of ... [read more]
Returning the stone (2006)
Two brothers, Burrimmilla (David Gulpilil) and Charlie (Tom E Lewis), travel to their mother’s burial site and return a sacred stone to its rightful place. [read more]
What is love? (2005)
All the main characters are introduced in this clip, and all offer their own definition of love. [read more]
Letting go (2007)
Beautiful orchestral music on the soundtrack accompanies images of Uluru at dusk, the Olgas, the beach, the outback, clouds, the sun descending, birds gathering and a windmill. In voice-over, a woman speaks about letting go of the day and the ... [read more]
