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Safety First (c1936)

This short drama was made in the mid-to-late 1930s and sponsored by the Road Safety Council of NSW. It aims to raise children’s awareness of road safety rules and demonstrates the correct procedures to follow when using the roads. ... [read more]

Two Tribes (1998)

Bankers and difficult kids. Both have bad reputations. This is the story of some inner-city kids at a special school who link up with a group of bankers who become their mentors. [read more]

Marn Grook (1996)

Marn Grook details Indigenous involvement in AFL since the game’s beginning. [read more]

Union Street (1990)

The multicultural residents of an inner-city street redecorate their houses in competition with a yuppie couple who are intent on financial gain. Consequently, the street attracts media publicity and becomes a tourist destination. Meanwhile, an application by a group of ... [read more]

Child Soldiers (2002)

There is a minimum of 300,000 child soldiers in the world. The documentary takes an intimate look at children fighting in Uganda, Sudan, Myanmar, Colombia and Sierra Leone. The film features historical footage, interviews with child soldiers and their families ... [read more]

Bye Bye Baby (1959)

A jaunty two-and-a-half minute pop song performed by Col Joye, Australia’s first home-grown rock’n'roll star, and the Joy Boys, with backing vocals from the Sapphires. This catchy pop tune of the late ’50s reached number one on the Sydney charts ... [read more]

Ride On Stranger (1979)

This adaptation of Kylie Tennant’s novel Ride on Stranger (1943) is in four one-hour parts. The first episode, 'A Country Girl’, introduces the central character, Shannon Jones (Liddy Clark). Bright, stubborn and incomprehensible to her parents, she is sent to ... [read more]

Frontier: Stories from White Australia’s Forgotten War (1996)

A documentary about the first contact between the Indigenous people of Australia and white colonists. [read more]

South Melbourne Methodist Mission News (c1924)

This film made by the South Melbourne Methodist Mission promotes their work with children and the poor in 1920s South Melbourne. It also shows the mission’s weekly issuing of firewood to struggling families in the local community. [read more]

Bitter Springs (1950)

Wally King (Chips Rafferty), with his family and stockmen, drive livestock over hundreds of kilometres of dry country to take up their new selection at Bitter Springs, in central Australia. A government trooper (Michael Pate) warns them that they are ... [read more]

Berlei Cinema Advertisement: It Isn’t Done (1930)

The ‘futility of careless dressing and the importance of correctly moulded figure lines’ is demonstrated through the fitting of a Berlei foundation garment underneath all frocking. [read more]

Mother Tongue (2002)

A young Korean girl’s father goes to Australia. The girl and her mother send him audio tapes regularly before they join him. In their new home country, the girl is brought up to speak only English and so becomes distanced ... [read more]

Island Fettlers (2006)

A documentary that uses historical footage, with current interview and observational footage, about the journey of Torres Strait Islander men who moved to the Pilbara to work on the railways and after the job finished stayed on. [read more]

Life Guards at Bondi Beach (c1929)

A fragment of actuality footage that shows lifesavers marching on Bondi Beach, a demonstration rescue of a person from the surf and lifesaving boats being rowed out into the surf in front of onlooking crowds. [read more]

Butterfly Island – Series 1 Episode 1 (1985)

The Wilson family run an unspoilt resort on Butterfly Island, despite financial troubles and strong competition from new glamorous resorts nearby. In this first episode of the series, a young Vietnamese refugee (Phu An Chiem) arrives and unwittingly becomes involved ... [read more]

Tasmanian countryside, Hobart and Tasmanian Tiger (c1932)

This black-and-white actuality footage contains scenes of the Tasmanian countryside, Hobart city and a Tasmanian Tiger in captivity. [read more]

Australia Post – Standard Letters (1974)

This is an Australia Post television advertisement informing the public of the new system of paying postage on domestic mail items, according to their standard or non-standard size. [read more]

Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate – ‘You’ve Got Yourself a Man’ (c1970)

These three 30-second black-and-white television advertisements for Cadbury’s Roses chocolates from the late 1960s or early ’70s all feature the slogan 'when you get Roses, you’ve got yourself a man’. [read more]

Bodyline (1984)

In the summer of 1932-33, three men of Empire – the brilliant young Australian batsman Donald Bradman (Gary Sweet), the gentleman English captain Douglas Jardine (Hugo Weaving) and the Yorkshire coal miner and fast bowler Harold Larwood (Jim Holt) – ... [read more]

Nestle’s MILO Cinema Advertisement: Family Album (1948)

This 1948 cinema advertisement for Nestles’ (now Nestlé) MILO shows a ‘real Milo family’ who drink the chocolate flavoured beverage for health, enjoyment, rest and sleep! [read more]

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