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Shoalwater: Up For Grabs (1992)

The documentary follows rock musician and president of the Australian Conservation Foundation Peter Garrett to Shoalwater Bay on the central Queensland Coast after permits have been issued by the Government to sand mine parts of the area. Garrett visits the ... [read more]

Love Tricycle (2003)

Welcome to Rimside, a town completely populated by bicycles. Rimside High School has just closed for the holidays. Beau is contemplating the lonely holiday ahead when he catches sight of Bec – the girl of his dreams. In a classic ... [read more]

Hoota and Snoz – Series 3 Episode 13 (2003)

In this episode, Snoz finds a mini Hoota as the novelty item in a cereal pack. Unfortunately for Hoota, even when he seems to be coming out on top, his tendency to act rashly and attract bad luck means that ... [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]

Dead-end Drive-in (1986)

In the 1990s economic and environmental disasters have reduced society to chaos. To combat looting and marauding ‘car boys’, authorities convert the Star Drive-in into a jail for unemployed young people. Captives are given action movies to watch and junk ... [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]

Dugong Dugong (1980)

A documentary about the hunting and butchering of the dugong. [read more]

Bird and Animal Calls of Australia (1968)

This title features 25 tracks of Australian bird and animal calls recorded by filmmaker and photographer Harold J (John) Pollock. Each track is preceded by a spoken identification of the name of the bird or animal. The 7” disc released ... [read more]

At Footscray a Church is Pulled Down (1911)

This Pathé Freres Australian Animated Gazette newsreel item shows a small church in Paisley Street in Footscray, Melbourne. It is being prepared for demolition to make way for a new cinema, the Grand Picture Theatre. [read more]

Elapsed Time Test Studies: Australian Wildflowers, Tahiti, Travel Scenes (c1955)

In a greenhouse full of flowering plants, amateur filmmaker FE Winton uses early methods of time lapse photography to capture the slow bloom of brightly coloured flora. [read more]

Super 8 Soldiers (1991)

In the 1960s a group of Australian conscripts took 8 mm cameras to Vietnam. Super 8 Soldiers intercuts that footage with interviews with the men and their families in the early 1990s. The Vietnam veterans reflect on the war, the ... [read more]

Shifting Sands – Grace (1998)

A short drama about a woman (Justine Saunders) who returns to Cairns for the burial of her sister. [read more]

Archibald Family: Noorong Gazette: Parts XXI - XXIV (c1930)

This silent black-and-white home movie compilation, titled the Noorong Gazette, was made by the Archibald family in approximately 1930. It is one of a series of seven gazette compilations that span from c1927 to c1932. [read more]

Number 96 – Episode 35 (1972)

The snobbish Claire (Thelma Scott) drops in on her daughter Bev (Abigail) at her flat in Number 96. Dorrie (Pat McDonald) is thrilled by the visit but Bev is not. Sonia (Lynn Rainbow) finds out why her lover (Joe James) ... [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]

Round About Townsville (1926)

Townsville, Magnetic Island and the Hinchinbrook Channels are the subject of this scenic tour through northern Queensland’s attractive tourist destinations. Filled with steady pans and well framed static shots, this documentary also contains explanatory intertitles and colour-tinted and toned sequences. [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]

Peach’s Australia – Darling River (1976)

The travel journalist Bill Peach continues his wander around the continent of Australia with a stop along the banks of the Darling River at Bourke in New South Wales. This was the centre of sheep grazing in Australia from the ... [read more]

Power to Win (1942)

This is a short wartime documentary directed by Charles Chauvel. It emphasises the contribution of Australia’s coal mining industry to fighting the war in Europe. It includes historical wartime footage, dramatised scenes and documentary segments, with a persuasive commentary by ... [read more]

Horace and Tina – Settling In (2000)

This is episode 2 of the 26 part series. Lauren’s (Jasmine Ellis) life is a total mess. A Canadian, she misses her friends and hates living in Australia. Now, to make things worse, she has the weird nelves Horace (Frank ... [read more]

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