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She’s back! (1997)
Elvis (Stig Wemyss) and Lionel (Kylie Belling) are riding their scoot-boards in the desert when a big road truck appears. It’s Janet Rig (Marg Downey) and her trucker mum. Li’l Elvis’s greatest fear is realised when he discovers that Janet ... [read more]
Holiday lifestyles (c1922)
The holiday accommodation in Sorrento is shown, along with tennis courts and gardens. A title card ‘all the girls are lovely by the seaside’ introduces men in their swimming trunks and women with parasols relaxing on the beach. A group ... [read more]
She mixed axolotl DNA with T-Rex DNA (2003)
Toby (André de Vanny) discovers that Elizabeth (Bridget Neval) has interfered with his DNA cloning experiment and is horrified to discover a ferocious and rapidly growing T-Rex has hatched from his egg. Will he and Russ (Ben Schmideg) survive ... [read more]
Family album (1948)
John and his family are introduced through a real life family album. As the pages are turned, the voice-over tells the story of their lives. The first picture is of John as a young boy, followed by a picture of ... [read more]
‘We’re no-one, we’re nobody’ (2005)
Tracy (Cate Blanchett), her brother Ray (Martin Henderson) and her boyfriend Jonny (Dustin Nguyen) have driven from Sydney to an isolated farm, to buy a large amount of amphetamines. At the farm, they find Lionel Dawson (Hugo Weaving), dying of ... [read more]
Rail bus (c1936)
Men are gathered around a rail bus that sits at the depot. An elevated camera captures a rail bus as it pulls out of the depot and travels along the rail tracks out towards the main road. [read more]
Ceremony day (2000)
Over images of food preparation, the narrator (Helen Anu) tells us that people also come from the other islands for the tombstone opening, as the people of the Torres Strait have many family connections. The covering of the tombstone is ... [read more]
A trip to Kundjabe (2001)
The family travel to Kundjabe to fish. The women bait the hooks with worms, while they talk about the different types of food available to them. There is a great familiarity with how the family relate to this place. [read more]
Ininti seed (2006)
Young women speak about how the old people used to show them bush tucker, dances, and how to make necklaces with ininti seeds. The young women talk about how the children now do not know about bush tucker, and they ... [read more]
‘No sign of intelligent life forms’ (2005)
The travellers stop for petrol at Emu Creek, after a long day’s drive from Broome. Ben (Nathan Phillips) records the events on video as the others freshen up. Kristy (Kestie Morassi) tells Ben that Liz (Cassandra Magrath) has a crush ... [read more]
‘The river spirits in a good mood’ (2006)
The four friends have secured the body in the river, to stop it floating away. The next day they catch more fish than they have ever caught on one of their fishing trips. The youngest, Billy (Simon Stone) decides to ... [read more]
‘Pretty frocks’ (1983)
Flo Caldwell, born 1910, from Ulgundarhi Reserve and Violet Shea, born 1912, talk of their experience of schooling on the reserve and being selected by the Protection Board inspector for cheap labour. [read more]
Flood and drought (1957)
The aftermath of the Maitland floods reveals the death, destruction the disaster has left behind. Collapsed houses, destroyed cars and dead animals are amongst the mud and debris. As the clean-up effort commences, a piano accordion plays across the soundtrack. ... [read more]
Modes of transport and Victoria Downs (1940)
Donkey teams in the North are shown pulling large wagons of supplies along dusty tracks. The camel team of an Indian hawker near Wave Hill brings supplies to people of the outback to whom ‘shops are not available’. The ... [read more]
Wards for consumption sufferers (1928)
The camera pans across the exterior of the Davis Wing – the wing which houses female consumptives – before showing patients in their beds on the outdoor veranda. Staff and patients are filmed in close-up, with many of them laughing ... [read more]
For fear of it finishing (1992)
Kerry’s hard bitten mother, played superbly by Jacqy Phillips, doles out some advice born of bitter experience as she washes her daughter Kerry’s (Belinda McClory) hair. She is determined Kerry won’t have the sort of disappointments in life that she’s ... [read more]
The last big push (1984)
With great bushcraft and sheer determination, this private expedition, mounted solely by the pastoralists themselves and not underwritten by the Governor of the Colony, at last found a way through the immense barrier of The Blue Mountains, to the grazing ... [read more]
Hector, Hector, Hector! (1927)
The race is on and Hector looks in trouble. The radio race-caller (Tal Ordell) becomes increasingly excited as Poo, Windbag and Stonker fight for the lead – but Hector isn’t done yet. [read more]
The march (2000)
A four-wheel drive makes its way down a stretch of road at Curtin Springs. The women are discussing the alcohol-related fatalities that have occurred here. They reminisce about the 1990 march against the sale of alcohol to Anangu (the word ... [read more]
Someone else’s land (2005)
Joanne Garngulkpuy talks about why people come to Darwin. John Greatorex tells us the history of the missions in the area, and how the different clans that were centralised in the settlements ended up living on land belonging to other ... [read more]
