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Australasian Gazette – Some Sunday Morning (c1920)
This Australasian Gazette newsreel from the 1920s shows a scene from 'some Sunday morning’ at St Kilda Beach, Melbourne. [read more]
1915 (1982)
Billy (Scott Burgess) and Walter (Scott McGregor) are mates. They’re young men from the bush always on the lookout for action and adventure. Walter is from a solid farming family while Billy has a dysfunctional family life and a drunken ... [read more]
Always a Visitor (2000)
A personal journey by 30-year-old Turkish Australian Muslim Kuranda Seyit. He discusses his relationship with his father and his siblings, and talks about growing up in Emu Plains in Western Sydney. At the time he was called a 'wog’ at ... [read more]
Kylie Tennant (1986)
An interview with the writer Kylie Tennant (1912–1988), filmed at her home in Blackheath NSW, between February and May 1985. [read more]
Gold Gold Gold: 4 x 100 Metres Men’s Medley Relay (1980)
Norman May’s radio commentary of the 4 × 100 men’s swimming medley relay at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. [read more]
Good Girls Do Swallow (2000)
Produced for the Lifestyle Channel, this documentary examines dieting women. Presented by Rachael Oakes-Ash, it takes a witty look at widespread dieting and its consequences. Personalities, people in the street, schoolgirls and experts are interviewed. Oakes-Ash performs a few comedy ... [read more]
Newtown Railway Station (1899)
This actuality footage from 1899 begins with a static view of commuters meeting an incoming train at a railway station in Sydney’s inner west. The clip cuts to the view from the back of the train after it has passed ... [read more]
Curtin Speech: Japan Enters Second World War (1941)
Prime Minister John Curtin addresses the nation from Melbourne to inform them that Australia is now at war with Japan. This was the first occasion in Australian history that the nation had independently declared war on another nation. [read more]
Peach Growing and Canning in Australia (c1926)
This is a silent 15-minute industrial documentary which shows the fruit growing and canning industry at Leeton in the centre of the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area. It illustrates various stages of the fruit preparation process including irrigating the area, cultivating the ... [read more]
Dame Nellie in the Mitchell Estate Garden, Lilydale (c1927)
This home movie filmed by Spencer Shier in 1927 features Dame Nellie Melba at her home, the Mitchell Estate Garden in Lilydale, Victoria. [read more]
Australasian Gazette – All for a Good Cause (c1920)
This Australasian Gazette newsreel footage from approximately 1920 shows a surf carnival at Bondi Beach, Sydney in aid of the St John’s Ambulance Brigade. [read more]
Snowy Hydro - Where Men and Mountains Meet (1963)
Produced in 1963 by the SMHEA photographic unit (Harry Malcolm et al.), the film looks at the spectrum of male work involved in the Snowy Mountains Scheme. [read more]
Australasian Gazette – Conversion (c1920)
This Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1920 shows the commencement of work at Victoria Parade for the electrification of the cable tram system of Collins Street, Melbourne, and informs us of the opposition to it. [read more]
Serving Suggestion (1998)
Little Kevin (voiced by Philip Joseph) is a snotty boy who doesn’t heed his mother’s call at the supermarket. He steals lollies, gobbles them and spills them, causing an old lady to fall. He runs over her to get his ... [read more]
The Club (1980)
Laurie Holden (Jack Thompson) is coach of a Victorian Football League (VFL) team that hasn’t won a premiership for 19 years. Club president Ted Parker (Graham Kennedy) brings in a star recruit at great expense, but youngster Geoff Hayward ... [read more]
Dyer, Frederick Simpson: Cinema and its Workings (1941)
An outing to the Saturday matinee screening of Pack Up Your Troubles (1940) at a local cinema is captured in black-and-white and colour by amateur movie maker Frederick Simpson Dyer. [read more]
Efftee Film Productions Congratulates Miss Dorothy Fricke (1931)
This silent newsreel item from Efftee Film Productions shows the debutante celebration of Miss Dorothy Fricke, held at Chelsea Memorial Hall in Melbourne on 24 August 1931. It features men and women waltzing around a decorated hall. [read more]
Menzies Speech: Declaration of War (1939)
Broadcast live via national radio, on 3 September at 9.30 pm Eastern Standard Time from the Postmaster-General’s Room at the Commonwealth Offices in Melbourne, Prime Minister Robert Menzies announces Australia’s imminent involvement in the Second World War. By saying that ... [read more]
The Popular Sport of Surfboarding (1925)
Three surfboard riders take off on a full wave at the north end of Bondi Beach, riding large Hawaiian-style longboards. They are shown from the side, then filmed from the beach, riding straight in. One man performs a handstand while ... [read more]
Rachel’s Story (1997)
At sixteen, Rachel began working as a prostitute in Kings Cross and became addicted to heroin. She met Clive, who helped her recover from the addiction and give up prostitution. They subsequently married. Some years later, Rachel decides to help ... [read more]
