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‘Healthy minds in healthy bodies’ (c1925)
A panorama shot of the grounds captures students standing on a square and then moving to form lines. They begin a callisthenics routine – all in time with each other. The boys and girls are grouped separately, with the girls ... [read more]
Pitcairn boat-builders (1933)
The movie shifts abruptly from dramatised recreation of the mutiny to a travelogue about the Pitcairn Islands, where Charles and Elsa Chauvel explore the legacy of the mutineers. The boat-building skills, Chauvel’s narration tells us, come directly from the mutineers. [read more]
Jesus’s belly button (2005)
The artists talk about the response to the paintings on the Santa Teresa church wall. We see an Aboriginal interpretation of biblical characters such as Jesus and Moses. [read more]
Les Presages (c1936)
In the final scenes from Léonide Massine’s symphonic ballet Les Presages, dancers from the Ballets Russes du Monte Carlo move frenetically across the stage, performing a series of strange gestures and jutting arm movements as they go. The final curtain ... [read more]
Post box (c1988)
This is a 30-second Australia Post animated television commercial (TVC) promoting the correct addressing of mail. It shows a post box rejecting incorrectly addressed mail, finishing with the slogan: ‘If you get it right here, we’ll get it right ... [read more]
‘Country Gardens’ (1919)
This is a pianola version of Percy Grainger’s ‘Country Gardens’ performed by the composer in New York in 1919. [read more]
Forging a road (1952)
The early crews on the Snowy Mountains Scheme forge their way into the more formidable mountainous territory of the Snowy-Tumut Development. [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]
Once a thriving river port (1976)
Peach strolls around banks of the Darling River in Bourke with local historian Alan Barton, telling of the time when the town was a thriving port. As Peach explains, Bourke, in the central west of New South Wales, was once ... [read more]
Married, at last? (1976)
The Stone family – Jane (Joan Bruce), Alan (Ron Graham) and Damon (Mathew Crosby) – and Dolly Lucas (Queenie Ashton) have realised their dream to move back to the country to live. During the housewarming celebrations, with all members of ... [read more]
‘Happy birthday, dad’ (2003)
The camera slowly crawls towards the front door, over the first-floor balcony and into the front bedroom to discover Steve (Gary Sweet) asleep in his bed, watched by his wife Alexandra (Helen Buday). She goes to the bathroom where she ... [read more]
Jack captures Masura (2008)
Masura (Shingo Usami), lying down, has just finished remembering the events depicted in a flashback: in a combat zone in the south-west Pacific the exhausted Masura was ordered by his commanding officer to get back on his feet and march ... [read more]
‘A big book’ (2004)
Sweeping aerial views show Mparntwe (Alice Springs). Voice-over narration tells us that the landscape of Mparntwe was created by ancestral beings as they travelled through the country. Elder Max Stuart explains the principles of the Dreaming, and that it is ... [read more]
A new beginning – let’s twist and shout (1989)
Tony Twist (Richard Moir) and his children, 13-year old twins Linda (Tamsin West) and Pete (Sam Vandenberg), and young Bronson (Rodney McLennan) are moving from the city to start a new life in the country, living in a lighthouse. But ... [read more]
Desert Rats (2006)
Aaron reads the paper while Vinnie mows the lawn. Over family stills and clips showing Aaron performing in Dead Heart and Water Rats, Aaron describes how Vinnie always turned to him to be looked after, and how, with a lack ... [read more]
Raising boys (2007)
Janet Merewether ponders whether her new son will miss having a dad. She’ll have to be both father and mother. She’s heard Dr Peggy Drexler, who has written a book called Raising Boys Without Men (2008), on the radio speaking ... [read more]
Beatlemania (1964)
This clip begins with news footage of the Beatles standing on a balcony in Melbourne, waving to fans in the streets below. Paul McCartney plays with a boomerang and laughs with the crowd. The Beatles song 'Love Me Do’ is ... [read more]
A case of apples (1980)
The soldiers wait for their weekly designated phone call. Keghead (Tony Barry) discovers that, as usual, it’s a frustrating experience. [read more]
Tribal stand (2006)
Black-and-white footage shows Jimmy Little singing on his television show in 1963. Jimmy takes us back to Yorta Yorta country, the banks of the Murray River and Cummeragunja in NSW where he was born beneath a tree. [read more]
Gramophone (1983)
Michael Leahy’s photographs and footage show the highlanders surrounding and looking at a gramophone (with a 1930s recording of ‘Looking on the Bright Side of Life’ playing on the soundtrack). In an interview, later on in the film, one of ... [read more]
