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Summer Heights High – Episode 5 (2007)

Summer Heights High follows three characters at a fictional school, Summer Heights High, for the duration of a school term, each played by Chris Lilley. In this episode, Ja’mie and her friends campaign for a year 11 formal at the ... [read more]

ALP: Frank Forde, Election 1946 (1946)

In an address to the public designed in newsreel format for cinema release, Deputy Prime Minister Frank Forde makes an appeal to his Capricornia electorate for a vote for him and a vote for Chifley, prior to the September 1946 ... [read more]

Two Men of Fiji (1959)

This documentary, made by the Shell Film Unit, follows the story of two young Fijian men who leave their native village on one of the Lau group of islands for the city of Suva on Fiji’s main island. For one ... [read more]

Three Dollars (2005)

Eddie Harnovey (David Wenham) gets the sack. His job as a chemical engineer for a government department is abolished after he refuses to rubber-stamp a large residential development on land contaminated with pesticide. Eddie contemplates his future as he remembers ... [read more]

Australasian Gazette – Spectacular Surf Club Parade at Bondi Championships Carnival (c1929)

This segment from an Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1929 shows a Scottish pipe band leading the opening parade of a surf carnival at Bondi Beach, Sydney. Surf clubs including North Bondi, Maroubra, Curl Curl, Clovelly, Collaroy and Manly participate. ... [read more]

National Treasures – Endeavour Journal (2004)

Warren Brown leafs through the precious pages of James Cook’s 1770 journal to discover Cook’s first impressions and trace the beginning of Australia as we know it today. [read more]

Shell Animated Commercial: Poster Man (1960)

In this animated advertisement for Shell Motor Oil, a cartoon ‘poster man’ comically attempts to secure a Shell poster on the side of a building. [read more]

Kiss or Kill (1997)

Young lovers Nikki (Frances O’Connor) and Al (Matt Day) are confidence tricksters. She lures men to her hotel room where she drugs them and with Al’s help steals their money, but the scam goes sour in Adelaide when she accidentally ... [read more]

Australia Today – Lucky Strike at Larkinville, WA and other segments (1938)

This Australia Today newsreel features three segments: Lucky Strike at Larkinville – about gold prospecting in Western Australia in 1932; Fangs of Death – about the dangers of deadly Australian snakes; and The Lucky Hour – about proposals for the ... [read more]

State of Shock (1991)

Aboriginal alcoholic Alwyn Peter traces the events in his life. Alwyn’s mother Rachel talks about the effect of forced relocation on the family and recalls Alwyn’s self-mutilation in his early life. State of Shock also interviews Alwyn’s wife, Ruth and ... [read more]

Kindergarten Playtime (1959)

This black-and-white episode, produced in 1959 and presented by Rosemary Milne, features a sing-a-long with children in a rocket ship ‘way up in space’ and an animated story of a trip to the moon illustrated by the smiling but melancholy ... [read more]

On Our Selection (1932)

Drought has all but ruined the Rudd family 'selection’ in south-western Queensland, but Dad Rudd (Bert Bailey) and his wife (Alfreda Bevan) hold grimly to the land. He’s in debt to a ruthless neighbour, Old Carey (Len Budrick), who seizes ... [read more]

Eugénie Sandler PI – Episode Two (2000)

Crooked detective Matt Gurney (Martin Jacobs) detonates the explosive planted in the Sandler home but Eugénie (Xaris Miller) and Warwick (Matthew Vennell) manage to escape. Tony (Darcy Bonser), a young street kid, offers to help them only for Eugénie and ... [read more]

Cold Turkey (2002)

A film about sibling rivalry. Robby (Wayne Munro) is leaving for Coober Pedy and a job in the opal fields but his older brother Shane (John Moore) doesn’t want to be abandoned in Alice Springs. He engineers a drunken night ... [read more]

Arthur Boyd: Testament of a Painter (1994)

A portrait of Australian painter Arthur Boyd (1920 – 1999). Born into a family of painters, writers and potters in 1920, his paintings are displayed in galleries all over Australia and overseas. Themes in his paintings include man’s inhumanity to ... [read more]

Pure S (1975)

Four young heroin addicts scour the streets of Melbourne in search of some good-quality narcotics – or as they call it, 'pure shit’. In the space of 48 hours, a friend dies of an overdose, they are ripped off by ... [read more]

Australasian Gazette – In and around Hamilton District (c1920)

This Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1920 shows the orchard districts of Hamilton, Queensland. Fruit pickers pick peaches off trees and empty their bags into a trough. They then sort the peaches into crates and hammer them closed for transportation. ... [read more]

General Motors Holden – Monaro, Three New Models (1968)

This is a two-part television advertisement for the 1968 Holden HK Monaro coupe. [read more]

Chandon Pictures – Champion Charles (2007)

Tom Chandon (Rob Carlton) is an aspiring feature documentary director with one credit to his name, the largely unseen Oh No Bonzo: The Clown that Killed a Child. With producer Lucy Cannon (Rebecca Massey) and cinematographer Nick Brenner (Darren Gilshenan) ... [read more]

Doing Time for Patsy Cline (1997)

Ralph (Matt Day) leaves his parents’ property in western Queensland with his guitar and a ticket to Nashville, Tennessee. His plans to become a country singer take a detour when a flamboyant couple in a large black car stop to ... [read more]

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