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Turning point (2003)
Bernie explains her struggles over the years to reach a competitive level of horseracing. She admits she couldn’t do it by herself, leading her to join forces with trainer Paul Sutherland. Bernie turns a corner with a thrilling win in ... [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]
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]
‘Work or die’ (2000)
Slave labourers were used by German industry during the Second World War. Siemens, BMW and Krupp are named. Survivors Kitia Altman and Abraham Biderman recall the horrors of being slave labourers. [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]
Wirangu language (2006)
A car drives by on the highway. In voice-over, Doreen and Gladys Miller reflect on how the now busy road was a quiet dirt track during their childhood. They tell us about their farming business in Scotdesco, 100km from Ceduna. ... [read more]
Highway reconstruction (1976)
An aerial shot shows the Clybucca Flat section of the Pacific Highway after the completion of reconstruction work by the NSW Department of Main Roads in 1976. Traffic passes over a joint in a conventional concrete pavement to illustrate ... [read more]
‘Oh, the pain!’ (1972)
Bev (Abigail) is none too happy to discover her mother Claire Houghton (Thelma Scott) waiting inside her apartment. Claire is demanding some answers about her daughter’s present lifestyle. [read more]
A six way investment (c1956)
This advertisement begins on a building site with a man loading a sheet of plywood onto the back of the new Holden utility. A voice-over describes purchasing the new ute as a 'six way investment’. Shots of the utility in ... [read more]
Australia goes to war (1939)
There is no audible ceremony on Menzies’s arrival in the room, just a short introduction by another speaker. Menzies settles at the microphone and we hear a faint rustle of his papers. In his speech, Menzies exercises his skills as ... [read more]
First documentary (2004)
Frank Hurley filmed and photographed one of the first expeditions to the Antarctic in 1913. Mike Gray of the Fox Talbot Museum and Joanna Wright of the Royal Geographical Society comment on the significance of the work. [read more]
Promised bride (1993)
Kavisha Mazzella performs a song about an arranged marriage to a man in a 'faraway country’ – Australia. The song’s story is acted out music-video style in black and white. [read more]
Melbourne nightlife (2007)
After being driven to Melbourne by Dyce (Masa Yamaguchi), the man who raped Crystal, the three women begin work in the brothel run by Vic Glassman (Andrew S Gilbert). They are guarded by Wade, the bald heavy (Adriano Cortese) and ... [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]
Hinkler’s message to Australia (1928)
This clip features one complete side of a two-sided gramophone record. In 'Hinkler’s message to Australia’, pioneer aviator Bert Hinkler describes the importance of aviation to the future of Australia. [read more]
Happy in a Holden (1962)
This clip shows a father standing next to his Holden in the parking lot outside an AFL match. He has brought his sons to watch Collingwood play. The man is interviewed about his Holden station sedan. The ... [read more]
Stand up, be counted (2002)
The activists – now elders – tell us how The Foundation played a role in the push for the 1967 referendum. [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]
Wild Dog Dreaming (2004)
Aerial views show Mount Gillen. The voice-over narration tells us about the Wild Dog Dreaming, when a local dog ancestor battled an intruder dog and eventually transformed into a rock embedded into the ground. Shots show the sacred rock in ... [read more]
To Wonderland Peak (1954)
This clip, filmed by amateur filmmaker Frank Straford, records two of his friends ascending to Wonderland Peak in Victoria’s Grampians Ranges. They move up a narrow rocky incline then take a drink from the ‘Showerbath Waterfall’ before climbing up Silent ... [read more]
