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The Royal Easter Show (c1940)
This clip captures the atmosphere of Sydney’s Royal Easter Agricultural Show. It includes footage of novelty stores, the woodchopping competition, equestrian events, the sideshows and the show rides. A male voice-over narrates the clip. [read more]
Continuing the discussion (1999)
The Reconciliation Learning Circle group have just held their last meeting at a social venue. As they get up and disperse, an Indigenous man speaking in voice-over predicts that the group members will now go back to their busy lives ... [read more]
Save us from the woodchip mill! (1992)
This introductory song and animated sequence gives the back story to the series. Blinky (Robyn Moore) and his friends live in the idyllic little bush town of Greenpatch which, suddenly one night, is logged by bandit loggers and the trees ... [read more]
The white ‘invaders’ rule instead (1928)
The Duke of York opens the new Parliament House in Canberra on 9 May 1927, before assembled dignitaries. His speech recalls the great men who worked to federate Australia and the ‘gallant men and women who laid down their lives ... [read more]
The last journey (1985)
The final journey of the New South Wales TPO (Travelling Post Office) is underway. The officers carry out their duties for the last time and talk about their days on the service. [read more]
‘I want to be a writer’ (1979)
Harry Beecham (Sam Neill) has waited two years for Sybylla (Judy Davis) to agree to marry. As drought grips the land again, he comes for an answer, but Sybylla explains why she cannot. [read more]
The promised land (1977)
While Miss Harrington (Jeune Pritchard) and Captain McEwan (Martin Phelan) talk about the future of the colony, the convict women dream of escaping it, to a safer world 'over the mountains’. [read more]
Trading buai (2004)
Buai or betelnut is a stimulant used widely in New Guinea. Lucas wants to trade in it to acquire some cash. He meets Jane in the market and she introduces Lucas to her aunt who is a grower. [read more]
A well-made fort (1939)
This clip illustrates examples the stonework of the fort, the Martello Tower, and the firing of one of the fort’s guns. The cells of the fort are used to store gunpowder. [read more]
The food of understanding (1977)
Dot (voiced by Barbara Frawley) has become lost in the forest, but a large red kangaroo (Joan Bruce) takes pity on her. The kangaroo gives her some roots to eat. This allows her to understand animal language. Dot enjoys the ... [read more]
Tracking the horse thieves (1947)
The five children have told their parents they are going camping. Instead they head towards the wild Warrigal Ranges, looking for the men who stole their father’s valuable mare Lucy (and foal). At Bellbird Crossing, they camp overnight. In the ... [read more]
‘Beer for the workers’ (1972)
As the office picnic progresses into the night, the partygoers get drunker, exposing simmering tensions. Clyde, a frustrated musician, tangles with a drunken colleague (Byron Kennedy), then punches the youngest member of staff, Peter (Philip Deamer), who leaves with his ... [read more]
The sixth round (1916)
This clip shows highlights from the sixth round of a boxing match between Les Darcy and Dave Smith in Sydney on 24 June 1916. The camera pans slightly with the action and films square-on to the boxing ring. [read more]
The getaway cars (1986)
Malcolm (Colin Friels) shows Frank (John Hargreaves) his version of a getaway car, gleaned from watching television shows. Frank takes the opportunity to make an unofficial withdrawal at a bank, but is completely taken aback when Malcolm shows him what ... [read more]
Give me the money (1979)
Missing girl Leilani (Amanda Berry) tells her new friend Zane (David Lourie) that she knows someone who wants to buy his supply of LSD. Unemployed Paul (Bryan Brown) decides to rob a supermarket, but ends up shooting a cop. ... [read more]
Pulling a stunt for a tank of petrol (1977)
With no money for petrol, Jack (Bill Hunter) works an old trick on a country petrol station owner. Uncle Joe (Zac Martin) acts as decoy and almost gets shot. [read more]
It’s all image (2002)
Emerging film producers Jason Gooden and Julian Saggers move into prestigious offices in the hope that they can finish and market their feature film. The film’s first director is invited to a screening of a new cut of the film. ... [read more]
Logs treated at the mill (1920)
This clip from an industrial documentary made in 1920 shows logs being treated and cut into useable timber pieces. [read more]
The very well-stitched Miss Brawne (2009)
Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish) and her mother (Kerry Fox) visit Mr and Mrs Dilke (Gerard Monaco, Claudie Blakley). Fanny is frosty toward Charles Brown (Paul Schneider), a poet who rents one half of the Dilke house. Fanny brings a cup ... [read more]
‘The wide brown land’ (1958)
Dorothea Mackellar recites the first stanza of her most famous poem, recorded in 1958. [read more]
