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‘Make them feel inferior’ (1995)
Babe (voiced by Christine Cavanaugh) is humiliated in his first attempt to control a pen of sheep. Fly (voiced by Miriam Margolyes) tells him that pigs are inferior, which he doesn’t believe. Rex (voiced by Hugo Weaving) feels his honour ... [read more]
‘Some special disappointment’ (2007)
Tim Jarvis is now alone on the ice. His companion, John Stoukalo, representing Xavier Mertz, has left the walk at the same point at which Mertz died in the original expedition, after 320 km. Jarvis must go on alone for ... [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]
Wouldn’t change a thing (2002)
Mariah as a young girl talks about karate, and living an active life. Mariah’s parents Angie and Dave talk about what is required to support Mariah in living with her condition. A medical practitioner tells us that after a transplant, ... [read more]
John Konrads speaks (1961)
John Konrads was one of Australia’s greatest swimmers. He and his sister Ilsa were from an immigrant family and rose to the heights of sporting fame. He is about to join other sporting greats of his era like Murray Rose ... [read more]
Footscray Railway Station (c1911)
This clip features a crowd of people near the footbridge at Footscray’s railway station. [read more]
Clara (2004)
You can view the animated short film Clara here in its entirety. In her suburban home, 12-year-old Clara tries to come to terms with a life-changing event. [read more]
Tobacco (2001)
A young woman and two older women tell us the stories passed on from their old people about the massacre of Aboriginal people by white men in 1928. Painted depictions of the story run beneath the voice-over, giving it a ... [read more]
An epic flight (1964)
This clip recounts the story of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and his aeroplane the Southern Cross. It includes archival footage of the record-breaking 1928 trip across the Pacific with Smithy and his colleague Charles Ulm, and their arrival in Honolulu. [read more]
‘Be elusive but don’t walk far’ (2005)
Eddie visits the site of a proposed major development to take soil contamination samples. He remembers his childhood sweetheart Amanda (Casey Peterson), whose father is the developer behind this new project. As he works, a crop-dusting helicopter gives him a ... [read more]
‘Not a slaughter’ (2001)
After gaining power by a coup in 1965, President Suharto authorised the murder of up to a million of his countrymen using the excuse that they were communist sympathisers. Journalists, Frank Palmos, Don North and Roland Challis comment on the ... [read more]
May Day (1956)
This clip begins with a survey of some of the workers who contribute to a broader labour movement, such as miners, boilermakers, tram drivers and conductors and wharfies. It then features a montage of colourful signs prepared for the May ... [read more]
‘Shoot straight’ (1973)
Voice-over accompanied by still photos details the judicial process leading to the execution of 'Breaker’ Morant and Peter Hancock – Australian soldiers attached to the British Army in the Boer War 1899-1902. A re-enactment of the execution is well ... [read more]
Westbrook Farm Home (1950)
The boys at Westbrook Farm Home for Boys in Queensland’s southeast sleep in open wards. The dormitories are connected to a main dining room where they gather for meals. The superintendent and his wife keep watch over the Home’s inhabitants. ... [read more]
‘Your turn to shout’ (1966)
Nino Culotta (Walter Chiari) gets a lesson in the language of drinking from a friendly Australian (Jack Allen) at the Marble Bar, a legendary Sydney watering hole. The barmaid (Anne Haddy) looks bemused. [read more]
Born in Bendigo (1969)
The Simms are a young couple who’ve come to Melbourne from the bush to find a better life. They barely manage because Mrs Simms has a chronic illness that takes up nearly all her husband’s hard-earned wage. [read more]
Know your Melbourne (c1945)
This advertisement begins with shots of a number of identifiable locations and buildings in and around the heart of Melbourne’s city. An informative voice-over accompanies shots of the Yarra River, the Botanical Gardens and famous Melbourne buildings. The focus then ... [read more]
‘Page Three Girl’ (1982)
The Daily Mirror newspaper’s photographer, Ron Iredale takes location pictures of Leanne Nesbitt, 'Mirror Girl’. Ron and Leanne agree that it is the naturalness of Australian girls that is sexy. [read more]
‘Saturday kind of car’ (1967)
A paperboy delivers the Saturday newspaper in a suburban street. A man in his pyjamas waves to his wife as she leaves to do the weekly grocery shopping, taking her daughter and the family dog with her in the Holden ... [read more]
Saturday in Sydney (1967)
Air Vice-Marshall Ky and Mme Ky finish their Brisbane visit, and the following day travel to Sydney. [read more]
