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Efftee Film Productions Congratulates Miss Dorothy Fricke (1931)
This silent newsreel item from Efftee Film Productions shows the debutante celebration of Miss Dorothy Fricke, held at Chelsea Memorial Hall in Melbourne on 24 August 1931. It features men and women waltzing around a decorated hall. [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]
Australasian Gazette – Master Pictures Lead the Way (c1926)
This newsreel segment from around 1926 shows the departure by ship for Tasmania of the general manager of Australasian Films, WA Gibson and film producer, Norman Dawn, where they will inspect locations at Port Arthur and Macquarie Harbour for their ... [read more]
Holmes, Mr WGA: Locals Cool Off at the Weir, Theodore (c1940)
This home movie filmed by WGA Holmes contains 17 segments filmed between 1940 and 1953 mostly in and around Theodore, Queensland. It includes footage of people bathing at the Theodore weir; mechanical and manual cotton harvesting; and beekeeping and ... [read more]
Endurance (1933)
The documentary footage taken by Frank Hurley during the Antarctic expedition led by Ernest Shackleton on a ship called Endurance in 1914-16 is bookended with a simple plot featuring a young boy who is eager to hear the dramatic story ... [read more]
Toora Vale Ice Company, Berri: Welcome Mr Ice Man (c1934)
This cinema advertisement for Toora Vale Ice Company promotes the use of block ice for refrigeration to preserve and cool food. [read more]
Swinger (1995)
A phone rings repeatedly in an apparently empty apartment. Unseen callers leave messages on an answering machine. These tell the story of the tenant’s last few days and suggest you never know when your luck is going to change. [read more]
Sorrento (c1922)
The many attractions of the Victorian seaside town of Sorrento are promoted in this 1920s black-and-white footage produced for the Sorrento Progress Association. Sorrento’s beautiful beaches, bathing spots, and accommodation are a pleasant ferry ride south from Port Melbourne. [read more]
Boer War Transvaal Contingent (1899)
This piece of actuality footage shot by the official photographer of the Queensland Department of Agriculture, Frederick Charles Wills, and his assistant Henry William Mobsby in 1899 records part of the parade of the First Queensland Cavalry Contingent before they ... [read more]
We Are Going (1986)
This is a rare recording of Oodgeroo Noonuccal (formerly known as Kath Walker) reading her poem ‘We Are Going’ at the Harold Park Hotel in Sydney 1986, recorded by the ABC. [read more]
Eco House Challenge – Episode 3, Emission Impossible (2007)
The families from the first two programs who had to survive for 24 hours with no water, electricity, cars or waste disposal, have now had one of those resources returned so long as they can cut their household emissions by ... [read more]
Tandaco Prepared Stuffing: Don’t Cry Dear Lady (c1942)
This colour cinema advertisement for Tandaco Prepared Stuffing shows a woman cooking a roast chicken for her husband and her husband’s boss. After having trouble finding her herbs and imagining the consequences of serving roast chicken without stuffing, the woman ... [read more]
One Shoe Short (2007)
In a town camp in Alice Springs, it’s school time and Rodney (Rodney Malbunka) can’t find shoes to wear. His school won’t allow him in class barefoot so his mate Jesse (Jesse McCormack) tries to help him out by reorganising ... [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]
Australia Post – Australia Post Inc (1990)
This in-house program, directed at controlling postal managers (CPMs) and postal managers (PMs), discussed what the Australian Postal Corporation Act (the APC Act) meant for individual post offices. [read more]
Sydney Harbour and Anzac Day (c1946)
This home movie features panoramic colour views of Sydney Harbour and the Anzac Day parade in Sydney, 1946. [read more]
Agnes Abbott: Hard Worker (2006)
Agnes Abbott tells her story from her birth in the beautiful Eastern Arrernte country of Inteye-Arrkwe (Ross River), to her life in the cattle industry, and her later time at the Santa Teresa Mission where she created an alcohol-free community, ... [read more]
Romeo + Juliet (1996)
The city of Verona Beach is dominated by a bitter feud between the families of Fulgencio Capulet (Paul Sorvino) and Ted Montague (Brian Dennehy). Ted’s son, Romeo (Leonardo DiCaprio), sneaks into a masked ball at the Capulet mansion and falls ... [read more]
The Official Film of the Mawson Antarctic Expedition (c1916)
This film documents part of the treacherous 600 mile 1911–1914 expedition to the Magnetic South Pole led by Sir Douglas Mawson. The documentary features the team’s departure from Hobart, Tasmania aboard the vessel Aurora. It shows wildlife at Macquarie Island ... [read more]
Movietone Special: Peace: Australia Celebrates (1945)
This Movietone News special edition features the nationwide celebrations that erupted with the declaration of peace at the end of the Second World War. It includes scenes in Martin Place, Sydney, as well as other capital cities, a victory march ... [read more]
