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Berlei Underwear TV Advertisement: Sarong Body Magic (1968)

This black-and-white television advertisement for the Berlei ‘Sarong Body Magic’ girdle demonstrates the wonders of a girdle that adjusts to the figure, no matter what your shape. Underwear that can adjust to the figure and hold in ‘unsightly’ bulges is ... [read more]

Bushells Tea: The Charmed Cup (1929)

This Bushells tea cinema advertisement from 1929 is a short narrative about a woman who has her tea-leaves read by a girlfriend who successfully predicts she will marry a handsome man. As the happy couple return from their honeymoon by ... [read more]

Gerakiteys: Greek Scenes (c1955)

This home movie footage is from a four-part compilation of 16mm silent colour home movie footage of the Greek community, filmed by Emmanuel Gerakiteys and his family between 1949 and 1955. Scenes in this 1955 compilation include the family ... [read more]

Nature of Australia – A Separate Creation (1989)

This program traces the rise of the marsupial from the primeval forests of ancient Gondwanaland to their presence in Australia today, culminating in the kangaroo. [read more]

Compass – The Cardinal’s Cousin (2005)

Monica is a lesbian and a former nun. She rose to prominence in 2004 when she published a letter she’d sent to her cousin, Cardinal George Pell, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney. She asked him to look her in ... [read more]

Warlpiri (1993)

Netta Williams introduces her mother and Betty Napanangka who tell Dreamtime stories from Mt Theo, near Chilla Well in the Northern Territory, about the Goanna and the Blue Tongue Lizard. Women and children dig underground for bush potato – a ... [read more]

Les Darcy vs Dave Smith for the Championship of Australia (1916)

Historical footage of Australian Middleweight Champion Les Darcy and Dave Smith training together at Sydney Harbour and later in a boxing match on 24 June 1916. [read more]

Les Darcy’s Last Fight: Les Darcy vs George Chip (1916)

Historical footage of Australian boxing champion Les Darcy and American George Chip at the Sydney Stadium on 30 September 1916. Highlights from rounds one, three, five, seven and nine are shown. [read more]

Jack Johnson Training Film (c1909)

Historic footage of heavyweight champion boxer Jack Johnson at California training in front of a small crowd. [read more]

Fighting the Flames (1909)

This footage of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade features horsedrawn fire units moving through the streets of Adelaide as well as rescue and resuscitation demonstrations by fire brigade members. [read more]

Holden Car Cinema Advertisement: On a Tour of Australia’s Banana Plantations (c1955)

This is a cinema advertisement for General Motors Holden in which a couple driving a Holden sedan take a tour of Queensland’s banana plantations. [read more]

Holden Car Cinema Advertisement: On a Tour of Tropical Australia (c1954)

This is a cinema advertisement for General Motors Holden in which a couple driving an FJ Holden sedan take a tour of tropical north Australia, including a boat trip on the Coral Sea. [read more]

Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate – ‘You’ve Got Yourself a Man’ (c1970)

These three 30-second black-and-white television advertisements for Cadbury’s Roses chocolates from the late 1960s or early ’70s all feature the slogan 'when you get Roses, you’ve got yourself a man’. [read more]

Dogs in Space (1986)

Melbourne, 1978. A large group of young people share a dilapidated house in the inner-city suburb of Richmond. Sam (Michael Hutchence) sings in the rock group Dogs in Space. His girlfriend, Anna (Saskia Post), works in a nursing home and ... [read more]

The Sullivans – On the Brink of War (1976)

The Sullivans tells the story of the Second World War through the eyes of a Melbourne family, their friends, colleagues and acquaintances. Told in ‘real time’, with each week’s episodes reflecting a week of the war, On the Brink of ... [read more]

Hoota and Snoz – Series 3 Episode 3 (2003)

In this episode, Hoota and Snoz discover a set of swings. In true competitive spirit, Hoota tries to swing higher and higher with predictably dire consequences. [read more]

Fez Please (c1935)

A short silent documentary made by the Owen Brothers about Melbourne’s fast-disappearing cable trams. [read more]

Chopper (2000)

In 1991, Mark 'Chopper’ Read (Eric Bana) is in jail watching himself on television. He has become the most famous criminal in Australia, a standover man who claims to have robbed and killed only drug dealers and other criminals. The ... [read more]

Starstruck (1982)

Teenage cousins Angus (Ross O’Donovan) and Jackie Mullens (Jo Kennedy) live in the Harbour View Hotel, beneath the Harbour Bridge in Sydney’s Rocks. Jackie is 18 and wants to be a singer; Angus is 14 and writes songs, while avoiding ... [read more]

From Sand to Celluloid – Black Man Down (1996)

An experimental short drama about Aboriginal deaths in custody. [read more]

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