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Snowy Hydro – Gardens of the Snowy Mountains (1967)
Produced around 1967 by the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority (SMHEA) photographic unit (Harry Malcolm et al.), the film promotes the establishment and maintenance of gardens, for the beautification of the newly established townships in the Snowy Mountains. [read more]
The Maryborough Railway Employees’ Picnic (1938)
This is actuality footage of the Maryborough Railway employees’ picnic held at Scarness, Queensland, on 20 March 1938. Children and families from Gympie, Bundaberg, Kingaroy, Childers and other south-east Queensland areas all attend. It includes scenes of children boarding trains ... [read more]
Holt – Film Re-enactment of the Circumstances Surrounding the Disappearance of the PM (1967)
This is unedited silent black-and-white footage, shot by the Victorian Police, re-enacting the movements of those who witnessed the disappearance of Prime Minister Harold Edward Holt on 17 December 1967. [read more]
A Big Country – The White Rose (1979)
Frank Bourke is ‘The White Rose’ – the dance band known and loved throughout country New South Wales. [read more]
Shadowland (1988)
Giant, vampiric winged insects attack humans. The humans evolve into winged creatures. The insects disappear and the first steam-driven machines appear. [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]
Touch the Sun – Devil’s Hill (c1988)
It is 1950. Badge (Alexander 'Mathew’ Jacobs) lives on a remote farm in Tasmania’s rugged southwest, with his parents Dave (Peter Hehir) and Jessie (Mary Haire). It is hard life but the family is full of hope as they battle ... [read more]
The Art of Healing (2005)
A documentary about an Arrernte woman Agnes Palmer, and her vision of painting the walls of the Santa Teresa church in Ltyentye Apurte (Santa Teresa), an Aboriginal community one hour south of Alice Springs. The Art of Healing is ... [read more]
Rebels With a Cause (1994)
The film looks at Cecil Waters and his unorthodox methods of bringing up his three sons on a farm on the Central Coast of NSW. Ces rules the family with a ‘rod of iron’, and is training his sons ... [read more]
The 7.30 Report - Orchestra Tunes In (2005)
This edition of The 7.30 Report begins with an update from the ABC’s Indonesia correspondent, Tim Palmer, reporting from Aceh where he’s been on many occasions since the tsunami struck on Boxing Day 2004. This is followed by a story ... [read more]
The Hillmen: A Soccer Fable (1995)
The Clifton Hill Soccer Club has seen better days. The local Greek and Turkish communities they have traditionally recruited from are moving out to the suburbs and they need to recruit from the new wave of immigrants from Asia. ... [read more]
The Ship That Shouldn’t Have (1984)
The story of an astonishing real-life adventure, when a scientific expedition went wrong. Mountaineers, adventurers and scientists set out in Cheynes 2, a former whaling vessel, on a voyage from Hobart to Heard Island, south-west of Perth, near Antarctica. Bad ... [read more]
Frame Up. Who Bombed the Hilton, Who Didn’t? (1983)
Filmmaker Irina Dunn presents a case for the innocence of the three Ananda Marga members convicted of conspiracy to murder the leader of the National Front in 1978. They were arrested after the terrorist bombing of a Commonwealth Heads of ... [read more]
Whitlam – Visit to the Philippines (1974)
From 28 January to 13 February 1974, the then prime minister Gough Whitlam undertook a six-nation tour of South-East Asia. This current affairs program details the last leg of the trip – his visit to the Philippines. [read more]
Endurance (1933)
The documentary footage taken by Frank Hurley during the Antarctic expedition led by Ernest Shackleton on a ship called Endurance in 1914-16 is bookended with a simple plot featuring a young boy who is eager to hear the dramatic story ... [read more]
The New Inventors – Series 1 Episode 8 (2004)
The three featured inventions on this week’s program are: a pool cleaner with a difference, invented by two brothers; a masterly way of turning landfill into compost; and an inflatable resuscitation mask that prevents the spread of communicable diseases. [read more]
A Film for Discussion (1973)
A Film for Discussion is a black-and-white experimental film made in 1970 using dramatised scenes, historical footage, stills, posters and ads to convey the situation of women, the emergence of the women’s movement in Australia and the awakening of one ... [read more]
Australasian Gazette – Arrival of the Duke and Duchess of York (1927)
This newsreel footage from 26 March 1927 shows the arrival and official welcome of the Duke and Duchess of York to Australia. As the HMS Renown motors through the Heads, aircraft from the RAAF provide an aerial greeting. ... [read more]
A Voice for the Wilderness (1983)
This documentary was produced in 1983 as part of a popular movement to save the rainforest of the Upper Hastings River and the Forbes River inland from Port Macquarie NSW. One of many pro-conservation films produced during the 1980s, ... [read more]
Astonish Me, Graeme Murphy Choreographer (1989)
An observational documentary that explores the world of choreographer Graeme Murphy. The camera finds him in rehearsal, in performance and with his wife Janet Vernon. He was born and raised in rural Tasmania and he returns to visit his parents. ... [read more]
