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Berlei Corsets: Beautiful Lines of Woman Triumphant (c1920)

This silent black-and-white cinema advertisement shows women modelling Berlei ladies foundation garments. [read more]

Australasian Gazette – Prickly Pear Infested Areas of Australia (1926)

This silent newsreel from approximately 1926 opens with a map which shows the prickly pear infested areas of northern New South Wales and Queensland. A map of England is then superimposed over the infested areas to illustrate the extent of ... [read more]

Round the Twist – Series One – Spaghetti Pig Out (1989)

Chaos reigns after a bolt of lightning hits the Twist family’s video remote control – it now works on people! Unfortunately Gribble Junior (Lachlan Jeffrey) gets hold of it and Pete (Sam Vandenberg) is desperately trying to get it back. ... [read more]

Lockie Leonard – The Human Torpedo (2006)

For ‘surf rat’ Lockie Leonard (Sean Keenan), ‘life is proving to be one long whack in the goolies’. Discovering that his new home is a dump on the edge of a swamp, starting high school in a new town without ... [read more]

Mother and Son – The Money (1984)

Maggie Beare (Ruth Cracknell) has been hiding her pension cheques so that the government won’t know how much money she has. Her harassed son Arthur (Garry McDonald), would love to have some of that money to buy a new car ... [read more]

The Dream – Days 9 and 15 (2000)

The Dream, hosted by comedic duo 'Rampaging’ Roy Slaven (John Doyle) and HG Nelson (Greig Pickhaver), was conceived as a two-hour informal nightly wrap to Seven’s coverage of the XXVII Olympiad in 2000, also known as the Millennium Games ... [read more]

Round the Twist – Series Two – Nails (1992)

Linda (Joelene Crnogorac) is attracted to Andrew (Eamonn Kelly), a mysterious new boy at school who never removes his gloves. Andrew lives on an island with his grumpy father Mr Shelford (Peter Bensley). Linda discovers Andrew’s hands are covered with ... [read more]

Beyond Sorry (2003)

When she was eight years old, Zita Wallace was removed from her families by the authorities. This is a documentary about the Stolen Generations, and the journey of one woman to reconnect with the Eastern Arrernte family from whom she ... [read more]

The White Monkey (1987)

This documentary biography follows Father Brian Gore as he works among the poor on the island of Negros in the Philippines. In his fight for social justice he was imprisoned, along with eight others, on trumped up charges by the ... [read more]

Bit of Black Business – Jackie Jackie (2007)

Jinaali (Elaine Crombie) works at Sunny Fresh Supermarket. She stands out from most of the other blond employees and customers. She initiates an 'equal opportunity line’ so she can serve those of difference and like mind. Her boss, Mr Chuck ... [read more]

Smoking the Baby (2001)

An observational documentary about the cultural ritual of smoking the baby to ensure their health and well-being. Smoking the Baby is part of the Nganampa Anwernekenhe series produced by Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) Productions. Nganampa Anwernekenhe means ... [read more]

The Plumber (1979)

Jilly (Judy Morris) and Brian (Robert Coleby) are young academics, living in a high-rise university flat in Adelaide. They have recently returned from the highlands of Papua New Guinea, where Jilly did research for a book. Brian is hoping for ... [read more]

The Tasmanian Tiger (1960)

This partly dramatised documentary is a brief look at Tasmania’s animals and birds. A young couple go looking for the elusive Tasmanian tiger. They interview experts and look at animals and birds in captivity. [read more]

The Food Lovers’ Guide to Australia – Series 5 Episode 6 (2004)

From the adventure of bush tucker in Kakadu to a huge Greek family feast at Easter, then Italian pastries followed by the seductively creamy custard apple and how and where it is grown. It’s all in a day’s work for ... [read more]

Winners – The Paper Boy (1985)

It is 1932 and Joe (Christopher Schlusser) is 11 years old. When his father John Riordan (Tony Llewellyn Jones) loses his factory job, Joe gets a job as a paper boy, and his tiny wage is all the family has ... [read more]

Australian Visit (1967)

This ABC News production covers the five-day visit of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam, Air Vice-Marshall Nguyen Cao Ky, and his wife, to Australia in January 1967. [read more]

Bit of Black Business – Nana (2007)

A Little Girl (Kiara Gibson) loves her Nana (Mitjili Napanangka Gibson) and follows her as she hunts, sells art and patrols her Alice Springs community for drug runners. Nana has everything and everyone under control. [read more]

Ikara the Weapon Thrower (1963)

This film details the Australian military trials of the Ikara missile, a ship-launched anti submarine missile. [read more]

National Treasures – Bradman’s Bats (2004)

Warren Brown pulls on the gloves and picks up the willow at the State Library of South Australia for his choice among the treasured Bradman bats on display in the Adelaide collection. [read more]

A Big Country – City Girls (1983)

A group of students from an exclusive girls’ school in Melbourne hike through the Bogong High Plains of Victoria’s Alpine National Park. With them is a smaller group of unemployed girls from a very different stratum of the population who ... [read more]

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