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Australasian Gazette – Historic Cricket (1933)
This newsreel segment shows highlights of the second Test played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in the 1932–1933 series, which was won by Australia. It includes England’s Harold Larwood bowling to Jack Fingleton; Don Bradman batting as well as being ... [read more]
Addison Road Drop-In (1977)
A ‘process video’ by Tom Zubrycki that looks at some of the marginalised young people who come to the Addison Road Drop-In Centre in Marrickville. Many of them are on welfare benefits and the Drop-In Centre offers a safe space ... [read more]
Dog Dreaming (2001)
A documentary that uses observational footage and paintings to tell the Dreaming story of two ancestral dogs. [read more]
Blue Heelers – A Woman’s Place (1993)
Fresh from police training, Constable Maggie Doyle (Lisa McCune) arrives to take up her new post in the country town of Mount Thomas, where the locals call the police 'blue heelers’. As the new kid on the block – and ... [read more]
Pearls and Savages (1921)
A silent, black-and-white film, Pearls and Savages records two trips by adventurer, photographer and filmmaker Frank Hurley to the Torres Straits Islands and Papua New Guinea between 1921 and 1923. The first trip was under the auspices of the Anglican ... [read more]
Message Stick – Blacktracker (1996)
Bernadette Yhi Riley narrates the story of her great-grandfather, Aboriginal tracker Alexander Riley, who served with the NSW Police from 1911 to 1950. We see Yhi Riley searching through archival records and talking with older family members and a ... [read more]
Double Trouble – Episode 1 (2007)
Double Trouble is about twin Indigenous girls, both born in Alice Springs but separated at birth and unaware of each other’s existence. The twins accidentally cross paths and decide to swap places. In this, the opening episode of Double Trouble, ... [read more]
Tasmanian Tiger Footage (1932)
This silent black-and-white footage from 1932 contains some of the last known moving images of a living (now extinct) Tasmanian tiger, thylacinus cynocepalus or thylacine, that died alone in captivity at Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart. [read more]
Snapshots around ‘Madras’ (c1926)
This silent home movie footage filmed by Gordon Gidney captures family members in their back garden at their home ‘Madras’ in the Melbourne suburb of Mount Eliza. They are filmed waving, smiling and talking to the camera in a series ... [read more]
Dame Enid Lyons: Maiden Speech (1943)
Dame Enid Lyons reads her maiden speech in this sound recording for radio broadcast. Lyons was the first woman elected to the House of Representatives in Australia’s federal parliament. [read more]
Stone Forever (1999)
For Stone Forever, the director Richard Kuipers interviews many of the original Stone (1974) cast and films the 25th anniversary of the film in 1998. The filmmaker makes extensive use of the rich sources of stills, black-and-white footage from the ... [read more]
Timber (1947)
This documentary about the timber industry in Victoria features several ways of hauling logs from the forest – by bullock teams, with wire pulleys, by tractor and by rail. It was made by Herschells Films and sponsored by the Shell ... [read more]
Victorian Police Radio Patrol (c1931)
This is a short dramatised scenario made by Efftee Film Productions for the Victoria Police. It highlights the work of the Victorian Police Radio Patrol on the streets of Melbourne in the 1930s. [read more]
Australia Today – Man-Eater (1939)
This Australia Today newsreel looks at the ‘silent terrors of the deep’ – sharks. It begins on the beautiful beaches of Sydney, makes its way through the murky waters of the Georges River where terror strikes, and finally travels out ... [read more]
Incident at Raven’s Gate (1988)
Country police officer Taylor (Max Cullen) is investigating the theft of a football trophy. His search leads to Raven’s Gate, an isolated property that has witnessed a destructive cosmic happening. He is met there by Dr Hemmings (Terry Camilleri), a ... [read more]
What I Have Written (1995)
As Christopher Houghton (Martin Jacobs) lies in a coma in hospital after a stroke, his wife Sorel Atherton (Angie Milliken) tries to make sense of their troubled marriage. Christopher’s colleague Jeremy Flizsar (Jacek Koman) approaches Sorel with a request to ... [read more]
Who Wants to be a Millionaire? – Series 1 Episode 5 (1999)
Host Eddie McGuire recaps the previous evening’s episode and introduces carry-over contestant Rick, who attempts to increase his $32,000 win. Ten potential contestants then compete in a game of ‘fastest fingers first’ to answer a multiple choice question and gain ... [read more]
A Shifting Dreaming (1982)
A partly-dramatised documentary by Bob Plasto, which attempts to trace Indigenous and non-Indigenous relations through three significant events: the Coniston massacre in the Northern Territory in 1928 in which members of the Warlpiri tribe were killed, the resulting Federal Inquiry ... [read more]
McLeod’s Daughters – Welcome Home (2001)
After the death of her father Jack, Claire McLeod (Lisa Chappell) is trying to get on with running the family cattle station, Drover’s Run. But the business is in serious debt and the men on the station are not taking ... [read more]
Australasian Gazette – Bon Voyage to Ex-Chief Justice, Sir William Cullen (c1924)
This newsreel segment from approximately 1924 shows the farewell and departure of the retired Chief Justice Sir William Cullen and Lady Cullen in Sydney for an overseas trip. Lady Cullen is farewelled by a party of Girl Guides who give ... [read more]
