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Sheep to Shop: Hosiery and Knitted Goods (1924)
Produced by Herschells Films for the Made in Australia Council, this documentary promotes Australia’s wool industry and the production of high-grade woollen garments. [read more]
Crook Hat and Camphoo (2005)
A documentary that shows two Alyawarr elders, Donald ‘Crook Hat’ Thompson Kemarre and Reggie 'Camphoo’ Pwerl making spears and woomeras in the tradition of the old people, using technology and knowledge that are millennia old and passed generation through generation. [read more]
Our Park (1998)
Filmmaker Gillian Leahy filmed the activities over one year of the residents and other users of a park in front of her house. The documentary is chaptered in seasons and follows the residents’ actions to reach agreement and alter the ... [read more]
For a Price (1985)
The documentary illustrates and discusses the various forms of prostitution available in Sydney and Melbourne in 1985. [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]
Antarctic Voyage (1956)
At the port of Melbourne, a small Danish ship prepares for a voyage south. The Kista Dan will take 15 men to spend 1955 at the Australian Antarctic research base at Mawson station. Food, fuel, beer and special over-snow vehicles ... [read more]
General Motors Holden – Export Holden (c1962)
This television advertisement chronicles Holden’s expansion overseas between 1954 and 1962, including the development of the left-hand drive and the importance of the 'Made in Australia’ brand. [read more]
Fashionista – John Macarthur (2003)
John Macarthur is from the Macarthur dynasty, the pioneers of Australia’s wool industry. He says he’s descended from the poor relations. This John Macarthur grew up in Bombala near the Snowy Mountains and took up knitting to get through the ... [read more]
Bourke Boy (2009)
Russell (Clarence John Ryan), a teenage boy, travels to Bourke in New South Wales with his adoptive father John (Andrew McFarlane) to visit the place of his birth and adoption. They visit the Bourke hospital where Russell was born and ... [read more]
Society Wedding (c1914)
This silent amateur 35mm footage of a society wedding from approximately 1914 shows the arrival at the church of the wedding party, including the bride, then shows the married couple leaving after the ceremony. It also features the wedding reception ... [read more]
From Sand to Celluloid – No Way to Forget (1996)
A short film that uses flashback to tell the story of Shane Francis’ (David Ngoombujarra) close encounters with the spirit and secular worlds during his work as a field officer for the Royal Commission into Deaths in Custody, haunted by ... [read more]
Wolf Creek (2005)
Three young backpackers buy a car in Broome, Western Australia, intending to drive across the top end to Cairns. Ben Mitchell (Nathan Phillips) is Australian; the two women, best friends Liz Hunter (Cassandra Magrath) and Kristy Earl (Kestie Morassi), are ... [read more]
Mystery Island (1937)
An inter-island steamer bound for Noumea is wrecked on an island reef during a storm. The survivors include an Australian detective and a killer, whose identities are known only to the captain (William Lane-Bayliff), but he is now suffering a ... [read more]
Pathe Animated Gazette: 141st Australasian Edition (c1918)
News items featured in this Australasian edition of the Pathe Animated Gazette include: the opening of the New Melbourne Hospital, an annual foot race between competitors from Rose Bay and Double Bay, and the opening of Sydney’s State Parliament by ... [read more]
A Shining Example (c1920)
Produced by Herschells films for the Made in Australia Council, this is a promotional documentary that highlights Australia’s capacity to produce the ‘highest grade’ electroplate silverware. The film is silent and uses intertitles to illustrate the action. [read more]
Edens Lost (1988)
In the late 1930s, 17-year-old Angus Weekes (Bruce Hughes), following the death of his last living relative, is invited by Eve St James (Julia Blake) to stay indefinitely with the affluent St James family on their crumbling but still elegant ... [read more]
Bush Christmas (1947)
In the beautiful Mara Mara valley, the three Thompson children – Helen (Helen Grieve), John (Morris Unicomb) and Snow (Nicky Yardley) and their English friend Michael (Michael Yardley) – are looking forward to the Christmas holidays. Riding their horses home ... [read more]
Henshall, Mr: Australian Cricketers Visit Ceylon, Naples, Switzerland and Practise at Lords (1930)
This silent home movie, capturing informal scenes of the 1930 touring Australian cricket team, was filmed by the team’s manager WL Kelly. It shows the players visiting Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Naples (Italy), Switzerland and England. [read more]
Age Before Beauty (1980)
Designed to provoke thought and discussion, Age Before Beauty examines the issues around ageing, as it relates to women. The film combines interviews with women (young and old), with observational footage and narration to cover topics like social perceptions of ... [read more]
North Shore Steam Ferry (1899)
This actuality footage shows a steam ferry docking at the Milsons Point Ferry Wharf in 1899. Bennelong Point, Fort Macquarie and Government House can be seen in the distance. [read more]
