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Dimpel, Konrad: Manuka Swimming Pool (1961)

Canberra resident and home movie enthusiast, Konrad Dimpel captures his young family on an outing to the Manuka Swimming Pool in 1961. [read more]

Empty Arms, Broken Hearts (1994)

Each year thousands of children are abducted by a parent and taken out of the country. In eighty percent of cases it is by the father. Women from Australia, Britain and France are interviewed. They discuss the success rate of ... [read more]

You Can’t See ‘Round Corners (1969)

Frankie McCoy (Ken Shorter) is young, stylish and tough, an illegal 'SP’ bookmaker in the working class Sydney suburb of Newtown. Sent to train for the war in Vietnam, he goes AWOL and returns to his old haunts, but ... [read more]

Holy Smoke (1999)

While visiting India, young Australian woman Ruth Barron (Kate Winslet) falls under the spell of a guru. Ruth’s alarmed mother, Miriam (Julie Hamilton), travels to Delhi and lures Ruth home with a lie that her father (Tim Robertson) is terminally ... [read more]

Fran (1985)

In suburban Perth, young mother Fran (Noni Hazlehurst) has been seeking the social and sexual comfort of men while her husband, Ray (Danny Adcock), works up north. Ray returns unexpectedly one day, saying he’s heard of her infidelity. He viciously ... [read more]

Rosie (2004)

A docudrama stylistically using both interview and dramatic re-enactment to depict the childhood of Rosalie Fraser, an Aboriginal woman who as one of the Stolen Generation, fostered out to a white family as a child and suffered physical, sexual and ... [read more]

Vivien Straford 1927–1937 (1927)

This is a 9.5mm home movie compilation of footage filmed by Vivien Straford of his family between 1927 and 1937. It includes scenes in the family garden and at a picnic, and features Vivien’s wife, their parents, their son Jim ... [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]

Four Corners – Aiding or Abetting (1983)

It’s 1983 and President Ferdinand Marcos is president of the Philippines. Australia is donating $80 million of bilateral aid to the Philippine Government. The question is, how is this aid being spent? The Australian Government is accused of lining the ... [read more]

Return Home (1990)

After his divorce, Noel McKenzie (Dennis Coard) returns to Adelaide, where he grew up, to take stock. He is bored with his high-powered job in insurance, but unsure if he can return to the life that sustains his brother Steve ... [read more]

General Motors Holden – Postgraduate Research Fellowship Plan (c1962)

This ad demonstrates how crucial scientific and technological research is to large multinational companies like GMH. [read more]

Smoking the Baby (2001)

An observational documentary about the cultural ritual of smoking the baby to ensure their health and well-being. Smoking the Baby is part of the Nganampa Anwernekenhe series produced by Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) Productions. Nganampa Anwernekenhe means ... [read more]

The Henderson Kids – Series 1 Episode 2 (1985)

The second part of a two-part episode, originally screened as one. When their mother (Diane Craig) dies in an accident, 13-year-old Tamara ‘Tam Bam’ (Nadine Garner) and 15-year-old Steve Henderson (Paul Smith) move from the city to live with their ... [read more]

Loved Up – Endangered (2005)

A documentary with interviews and animated sequences that explores the issue of being single and Indigenous in contemporary society. [read more]

Erskineville Kings (1999)

Barky (Marty Denniss) returns to Sydney for his father’s funeral. He has been away in Queensland for more than two years while his older brother Wace (Hugh Jackman) took care of their father after a stroke. The brothers are not ... [read more]

Albion, Douglas: Wally’s Fifth Birthday Party (c1921)

A tinted home movie with intertitles with scenes of a boy’s fifth birthday party in a family garden. Scenes include Wally Albion playing with a toy train; girls dancing; a large table spread with cakes and sweets; and other party ... [read more]

Double Trouble – Episode 4 (2007)

Double Trouble is about twin sisters previously unknown to each other – one lives in Alice Springs, the other in Sydney. The twins accidentally cross paths and decide to swap places. [read more]

Yanks Down Under (1983)

This documentary, made in 1983, profiles some Americans who have made Australia their home, and become successful in the entertainment business. It features people like Don Lane, Marcia Hines and theatre director Hayes Gordon. [read more]

Lizzy Gardiner’s Story of the Fame Game (1997)

Academy Award winning costume designer, Lizzy Gardiner, interviews television stars about their time in the spotlight and what follows. Gardiner interviews stars like Bruce Samazan, Ashley Paske and Isla Fisher about how it feels to be a star and life ... [read more]

Elephant Tales (2006)

Life on the wild plains of Africa is wonderful for Zef (voiced by Jono Wood) and his younger elephant brother Tutu (voiced by Emily Hunt) until they find themselves orphaned by hunters (named ‘The Badness’). Zef comforts Tutu by saying ... [read more]

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