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Rydin’ Time (2005)
A documentary about three Indigenous rodeo riders, Kaleb Comollatti, Dallas McNamara, and John Stacey who ride at the Mt Isa Rodeo in 2005. Rydin’ Time is part of the Nganampa Anwernekenhe series produced by Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (read more]
West (2007)
Pete (Khan Chittenden) and Jerry (Nathan Phillips) are cousins and best friends, going nowhere in the west of Sydney. They are unemployed and shiftless – bored, drunk and stoned most of the time. When Jerry gets a girlfriend and a ... [read more]
An Exercise in Discipline: Peel (1982)
A bickering red-headed family on a weekend road trip reach a standoff by the side of a country road. [read more]
Menzies 1948 Journey, Reel 2 (1948)
This home movie filmed by Australian Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, during a family journey through Europe in 1948, begins with a title card that says ‘I didn’t see enough of it’ and cuts to footage of the cricket at ... [read more]
Smithy (1946)
A young Australian pilot in the Royal Flying Corps is shot in the foot while flying over the Western Front in 1917. Charles Kingsford Smith (Ron Randell) finishes the war with a Military Cross and a burning desire to do ... [read more]
Australia Post – Security (1989)
This program, produced for in-house training use, outlines the operations of Australia Post’s Security and Investigation Service and alerts personnel to the range of potential mail crime. [read more]
Choir of Hard Knocks – Episode 3 (2007)
Inspired by an article about a homeless men’s choir in Montreal, choirmaster and former opera singer Jonathan Welch forms a similar choir in Melbourne in association with local charity Reclink. Auditions are not required – anyone who is homeless, struggling ... [read more]
Australasian Gazette – First Shipment of Red Cross Supplies to Egypt (c1917)
This Australasian Gazette newsreel shows the first shipment of Red Cross supplies leaving Federal Government House, Melbourne for soldiers in Egypt. Men form a chain to transport boxes of supplies down stairs to load onto a vehicle. The horse-drawn vehicles ... [read more]
Third Person Plural (1978)
Easy-going Terry (George Shevtsov) invites three friends on a weekend boating trip. Mark (Bryan Brown) is a biologist who studies ants. Danny (Linden Wilkinson) is making a documentary about senior citizens. Beth (Margaret Cameron) has an open relationship with husband ... [read more]
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]
Monte Carlo Russian Ballet. Original Ballet Russe (c1936)
This footage, filmed by Ewan Murray-Will, shows staged sequences of the Ballets Russes’ repertoire on their tours to Australia. It includes excerpts from the ballets Le Beau Danube, Le Carnaval, Les Presage, Petrouchka and Thamar. [read more]
Gallipoli (1981)
In Western Australia in 1915 two young men join up to fight in the First World War. Archy Hamilton (Mark Lee) is the patriotic son of a grazier. Frank Dunne (Mel Gibson) is a drifter with no great desire to ... [read more]
Flirting (1990)
At a private boys’ school in 1965, class misfit Danny Embling (Noah Taylor) finds his romantic soulmate in Thandiwe (Thandiwe Newton), a precocious, intelligent girl of African heritage from the nearby private girls’ school. After misunderstandings and misadventures they come ... [read more]
Message Stick – Scotty Martin, Rodeo Boy, Don’t Say Sorry (2005)
A story about songman Scotty Martin, who inherited the role of composer of songs. This episode also features rodeo boy Bowman Button, a four-year-old cowboy, and a short film titled Don’t Say Sorry. [read more]
Tasmanian Tiger Footage (1932)
This silent black-and-white footage from 1932 contains some of the last known moving images of a living (now extinct) Tasmanian tiger, thylacinus cynocepalus or thylacine, that died alone in captivity at Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart. [read more]
Fashionista – Nicolas Jurnjack (2004)
Nicholas Jurnjack is a hair stylist who insists that fashion photography is all about lighting. He hails from Marseilles and was offered a choice of a plumbing or hairdressing apprenticeship as his first job. He chose plumbing but when he ... [read more]
Rare Chicken Rescue (2008)
Queensland chicken breeder Mark Tully struggles with depression and anxiety but his love of chickens has given him back his life. Rare Chicken Rescue is an observational documentary that follows Mark on his mission to save rare breeds of chicken ... [read more]
Tatler Social Newsreel: Social Party in South Yarra (c1934)
This newsreel made by FW Thring’s Efftee Film Productions contains three items: a society party held by Mrs Lou Connolly at her home in South Yarra; the first meeting of the Centenary Dog Club at Melbourne Showgrounds; and the activities ... [read more]
Lovers and Luggers (1937)
Tired of his life as one of the world’s greatest concert pianists, Daubenny Carshott (Lloyd Hughes) sails for Thursday Island in the Torres Strait, to become a pearl diver. London society beauty Stella Raff (Elaine Hamill) has promised to marry ... [read more]
Dig A Million, Make A Million (1968)
Australia’s richest iron ore deposit has been found by Lang Hancock and his partner, Peter Wright. The mining company Hamersley Iron is developing a huge mining infrastructure in Western Australia. [read more]
