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‘A great partnership’ (1942)
A family sits around the breakfast table after son Ted has finished his night shift at the munitions factory. His mother tells him how proud she is of both her sons – one in the armed forces fighting overseas on ... [read more]
‘Holden’s got more horses’ (1966)
A man walks out of a house and gets into his 1966 Holden HR sedan. We see a pack of galloping horses as the narrator describes the 'thundering power’ of the HR’s 145 horsepower engine, new acceleration and twin carburettors. ... [read more]
Prejudice – alive and well (2003)
Tony Hewson is the Human Resources Manager at the abattoir in Young, NSW. He says that the Hazara refugees from Afghanistan are good workers. He says labour is hard to get in a boom town like Young and he ... [read more]
‘Remember … Cadbury’s Milk Tray’ (c1955)
This clip contains two 30-second advertisements for Cadbury’s Milk Tray chocolates. In the first, a young couple going to a show make the evening romantic with the purchase of Milk Tray chocolates. The second shows a male and female ... [read more]
What you need to know (1974)
This is one of the two television advertisements produced to facilitate the change to metric on Australian roads in July 1974. [read more]
Wild river (1980)
Bob Brown takes a rubber dinghy through some spectacular rapids at the head of the Franklin River in Tasmania. In voice-over he recalls his first trip down the river and the powerful impact it had on him. [read more]
Mawson’s heritage (1998)
Restoration begins on explorer Douglas Mawson’s hut first built in 1911 in Antarctica. Solid ice has filled the hut and archaeologists and heritage architects must first clear the pack ice without damaging the structure or disturbing the artefacts. [read more]
Harvesting and topping sugar cane (c1925)
An animated sketch demonstrates how the harvester elevates, tops and collects cane, illustrating all the major parts of the machine that aid this process. A live-action demonstration follows, broken down into the working parts engaged in this sequence. Intertitles are ... [read more]
Refining, packaging and transport (c1923)
A large pipe is lowered and positioned at the docks to receive oil. Barges are shown in the water. An oil refinery in Sydney is shown where the petroleum is put into tankers. Barrels of oil and boxes of Shell ... [read more]
Bush coconut (1999)
A group of women are collecting bush coconuts, with a younger woman climbing the tree to collect them. She throws them down to the older women. A woman breaks one open whilst holding it in the palm of her hand, ... [read more]
Everything has a cycle (2004)
Tom E Lewis introduces the concept of five seasons over footage of an overflowing Rose River – the land inundated with water, followed by a montage of a dry riverbed. Lewis describes the wet season over images of Indigenous men ... [read more]
Library of grief (1993)
We see war graves in Europe, and learn about the ongoing responsibilities of the War Graves Commission to maintain the 1,000 cemeteries along the Western Front. Some bodies are still being found from the First World War. [read more]
Dreaming of glass (2003)
The story of how a commission from Manningham City Council helped start Wathaurong Glass, with shots of the beautiful artwork hanging in buildings. A practitioner speaks of going to Milan to exhibit his artwork, where the arts community has never ... [read more]
Magic realism in South America (2004)
Rolf de Heer was the director of a troubled co-production with a French producer for the film The Old Man Who Read Love Stories with fine performances from Richard Dreyfuss and Hugo Weaving. In the studio, David Stratton and Margaret ... [read more]
‘Can you imagine?’ (2008)
On 25 January 1788 the First Fleet enters Sydney Harbour. Narrator Rachel Perkins and historian Professor Marcia Langton of the Yiman-Bidjara Nation convey the Indigenous point of view of this event. Emeritus Scholar Inga Clendinnen describes attempts by the Aboriginal ... [read more]
Birth (1988)
This is an Australia Post television commercial (TVC) promoting the Lettergram service as a replacement for the congratulatory telegram, traditionally sent on the birth of a child. [read more]
Senseless murder (1999)
Senior Sergeant Terry O’Connell is arranging a restorative justice group to bring the murderers of Ken and Joan’s son and the family together hoping to repair some of the harm done by the murder. He explains the nature and purpose ... [read more]
A 50-tonne explosion (1963)
Final checks are carried out on all instrumentation and the countdown begins. The explosion is shown, then the destruction of the forest is replayed in slow motion and from a number of different camera angles. [read more]
Petrol sniffing (2000)
Botj (Sean Mununggurr) sniffs petrol after fighting with his friends Lorrpu and Milika. He trashes the women’s community centre, concentrating his anger on the paintings of the Yolngu’s totem animal, the crocodile. He then lights a cigarette. [read more]
Aussie welcome (2004)
African American ex-servicemen recall the friendliness of the Australians during the Second World War in Queensland. Frederick J Smith and Jay Crosby were intrigued by the ritual of teatime. [read more]
