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Loved Up – Our Bush Wedding (2005)
An observational documentary about the wedding between artist Gordon Syron and photographer Elaine Pelot-Kitchener. Syron went to jail in 1972 for killing a man who, in his view, was attempting to take the land belonging to his family. [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]
Burke & Wills (1985)
The Victorian Exploring Expedition leaves Melbourne on 20 August 1860, amid great fanfare and optimism. Before a large crowd, the leader, Robert O’Hara Burke (Jack Thompson), promises that he will beat the South Australian expedition led by John McDouall Stuart, ... [read more]
Red Cross Cinema Advertisement: The Prisoner of War Street Adoption Scheme (c1941)
A community announcement promoting the Red Cross’s Prisoner of War Street Adoption Scheme. The advertisement consists of a three-minute address to camera by the Governor of Queensland, Sir Leslie Wilson. [read more]
Ride On Stranger (1979)
This adaptation of Kylie Tennant’s novel Ride on Stranger (1943) is in four one-hour parts. The first episode, 'A Country Girl’, introduces the central character, Shannon Jones (Liddy Clark). Bright, stubborn and incomprehensible to her parents, she is sent to ... [read more]
Rinso Washing Powder: A Bachelor Grey (c1943)
Narrating the life of bachelor Henry, this cartoon-style advertisement for Rinso washing powder shows how this miraculous laundry product can turn anyone’s life around! [read more]
Senator Dorothy Tangney: Maiden Speech (1944)
Dorothy Tangney, Australia’s first woman senator, delivered her maiden speech in the Senate in Canberra on 24 September 1943, at the age of 32. This recording of Tangney reading her maiden speech was made by the ABC in Sydney ... [read more]
Choir of Hard Knocks – Episode 3 (2007)
Inspired by an article about a homeless men’s choir in Montreal, choirmaster and former opera singer Jonathan Welch forms a similar choir in Melbourne in association with local charity Reclink. Auditions are not required – anyone who is homeless, struggling ... [read more]
For Love or Money (1983)
Using a vast array of historical footage, the film proposes a history of women and work in Australia, from 1788 to 1983. [read more]
Love and Other Catastrophes (1996)
University film studies student Mia (Frances O’Connor) wants to follow her favourite lecturer to a different department, but she has only one day left to register. She becomes jealous when her lesbian lover, Danni (Radha Mitchell), stays out all night ... [read more]
Maranoa Lullaby (1950)
Born in 1924 in Queensland, Harold Blair developed a fine tenor voice singing in the cane-fields and local concerts. 'Maranoa Lullaby’ is one of several songs he recorded in 1950, arranged for voices and keyboard by British composer Arthur Loam ... [read more]
Blinky Bill’s Fire Brigade (1992)
This is episode two of the first series of Blinky Bill. When lightning starts a fire in Greenpatch, Blinky (Robyn Moore) decides to set up a fire brigade and enlists his friends to help. They collect everything they need, by ... [read more]
Catalyst – Planet of the Rings (2005)
A ride to the outer reaches of the solar system with Dr Richard Smith. This program is about one of the greatest exploration feats of all time – the Cassini mission to the planet Saturn, followed by the release of ... [read more]
Theme From ‘Blue Hills’ (1949)
This recording is a short excerpt from episode 528 of the long-running radio serial Blue Hills, including the theme music and opening announcement. [read more]
Correlli – Rat Tamer (1995)
Prison psychologist Louisa Correlli (Deborra-Lee Furness) is romantically involved with convicted armed robber Kevin Jones (Hugh Jackman), inmate of the fictitious all-male prison Blackstream. This episode introduces us to both leading characters and suggests their mutual attraction. The episode also ... [read more]
Babakiueria (1986)
This is a drama pretending to be an ethnographic documentary examining the customs of the white natives of ‘Babakiueria’, from the perspective of the country’s black colonisers. Babakiueria is named as a result of first contact between the colonisers and ... [read more]
Snowy Hydro – The Snowy Mountains Scheme (1952)
Completed somewhere around 1952, the film celebrates the achievements of the Snowy Mountains Scheme, now three years into its endeavour. [read more]
Australasian Gazette – 70,000 Pounds Production Nears Completion (1926)
This Australasian Gazette newsreel clip from 1926 shows a scene from the film For the Term of His Natural Life in production at the Australasian Films’ Bondi studio, Sydney NSW. A cameraman standing on a moving platform, or dolly, ... [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]
Red Matildas (1985)
Red Matildas tells the personal stories of three women who lived in Australia during the Great Depression – May Pennefather, Joan Goodwin and Audrey Blake. All three were touched by the massive unemployment, poverty and uncertainty of the time and ... [read more]
