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Ngadjonji country (2005)
Bill Homenko, an elderly descendent of Russian immigrants talks to camera about his childhood recollections. Ngadjonji country, around Rosser River, is the thousand-year-old home of Kitty Clarke’s people. Historical stills are intermixed with re-enactments of Kitty Clarke’s mother’s first glimpse ... [read more]
Survivors (1926)
This clip shows some of the survivors of the bushfires. Private J Sparks from the 46th Battalion has only a heap of melted pennies and a returned soldier’s medal left after the fires consumed all his other belongings. The desolated ... [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]
Chocolate making (1925)
A pan of the sorting rooms shows women sorting the cleansed chocolate in preparation for blending. The kernels are then taken to the mills where they are ground into a smooth liquor. Sugar is added in large mixing machines and ... [read more]
Choosing a dance (2000)
The Anangu (how the Indigenous people of the area refer to themselves) women have been invited by Stephen Page to perform at the opening ceremony of the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, and are discussing which dance would best suit ... [read more]
Old Jindabyne (c1965)
As the waters of Lake Jindabyne, part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme, begin to rise, we take a last look at old Jindabyne. [read more]
A river to be turned (1952)
The first stages of the Snowy Mountains Scheme are detailed, from the survey and hydrology crews measuring river flows at the Snowy headwaters, to the Guthega project (the first project to be completed), now underway. [read more]
AIDS awareness (1993)
Eight-year-old Troy acknowledges the causes and effects of his AIDS condition. [read more]
On their journey (c1926)
The American tourists walk out of the entrance to the Federal Hotel in Melbourne and get into an awaiting car. A porter carries their bags and loads them in the back, while the driver closes the door. At their destination, ... [read more]
Pitcairn boat-builders (1933)
The movie shifts abruptly from dramatised recreation of the mutiny to a travelogue about the Pitcairn Islands, where Charles and Elsa Chauvel explore the legacy of the mutineers. The boat-building skills, Chauvel’s narration tells us, come directly from the mutineers. [read more]
Queen Elizabeth II opens Victorian Parliament (1954)
This clip from a home movie filmed by Australian Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, on 25 February 1954, shows the arrival of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh by car outside the Parliament of Victoria. They ... [read more]
Bushells tea factory (c1925)
This Bushells Tea cinema advertisement from approximately 1925 uses a documentary style to show the process of producing it from the harvesting of leaves to a tea party in a garden. It begins with a woman picking tea leaves, ... [read more]
Cyclops (2007)
In Western Australia, in the midst of shark-infested waters two kilometres from the coastline and six hours from medical facilities, the Abberton brothers surf one of the most dangerous, heaviest waves in Australia – Cyclops. [read more]
A new sisterhood (1978)
In a montage of footage from 1970s feminist films, interlaced by narration and music, the clip proposes the notion of a new sisterhood. [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]
South Sea Islanders cutting cane (1899)
This clip filmed in 1899 is one of the few pieces of footage of Melanesian labourers cutting cane in Queensland. The workers stack the cane onto a wagon while their supervisor keeps a watchful eye. [read more]
Missionary Hawaii (2005)
Stephen Eisenman, author and Professor of Art History in Illinois, explains the negative impacts of colonialism and imperialism on traditional Tahitian life. English missionaries reformed the ‘sinful natives’ of Hawaii and French missionaries converted many Tahitians to Christianity. The invention ... [read more]
Inner city redevelopment (1974)
Over a series of still images of the residents, buildings, and community of inner-city Sydney, the voice of community activist Margaret Barry narrates the story of the inner city, one that has outlived her usefulness and been pensioned off to ... [read more]
Secretaries and executives (1970)
This segment addresses secretaries and executives and informs them of their responsibilities in the posting, receipt, sorting and delivery of mail. [read more]
Birthright (1993)
The narrator explains over black-and-white drawings that the missionaries frowned on what they saw as a heathen custom of women and men ‘riding the waves of heaven’ and the activity of surfing languished for a time. But surfing eventually again ... [read more]
