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Clowns and their Make-Up (1985)

The documentary covers many aspects of clown make-up particularly for children. Subjects covered include make-up, design, eyelashes, wigs, clown eggs and pom-poms. [read more]

Fourth Liberty Loan (1943)

This black-and-white cinema advertisement urges theatre-goers to support the war effort by buying national savings stamps and investing them in the Fourth Liberty Loan. [read more]

Starstruck (1982)

Teenage cousins Angus (Ross O’Donovan) and Jackie Mullens (Jo Kennedy) live in the Harbour View Hotel, beneath the Harbour Bridge in Sydney’s Rocks. Jackie is 18 and wants to be a singer; Angus is 14 and writes songs, while avoiding ... [read more]

Revolution by Referendum: Political advertisement by Mr Costello (c1932)

Made by Kinetone Productions, this unedited footage shows an unidentified man attempting to deliver a speech for what may be a public advertisement, to petition the Government in favour of abolishing the ‘Capitalistic system’. [read more]

Skyway Express (c1948)

This travelogue was one of a series produced for Qantas in the late 1940s under the generic title of Universal Skylogues. Each film in the series uses the notion of flying into an 'exotic’ location, usually giving the audience a ... [read more]

Waterfront – Episode 1 (1984)

It’s 1928 and the waterfront unions in Melbourne are gearing up for a struggle with the shipowners who are trying to take away hard-won wages and working conditions from the wharfies. Meanwhile in Italy, Mussolini’s Blackshirts are forcing many Italian ... [read more]

Peach’s Gold – Eureka (1983)

From Clunes to Warrandyte, from Buninyong to Ballarat, men came from all over the country and from every corner of the globe to try their luck as diggers on the fabulous goldfields of 19th century Victoria. Their sense of outrage ... [read more]

Just Peanuts (1954)

This documentary filmed in Queensland details the growing, harvesting, distribution and processing of peanuts. It also features peanut-related products, 'ETA’ company vans advertising peanut butter leaving the factory, and children consuming peanut butter in school canteens. [read more]

Flamingo Park (1980)

The documentary looks at the work of fashion designer Jenny Kee who is shown at work at her retail outlet Flamingo Park (established with fellow designer Linda Jackson) and at home in the Blue Mountains, intercut with a fashion show. [read more]

CE Miller & Co Cinema Advertisement: Know Your Melbourne (c1945)

This colour cinema advertisement from around 1945 is for CE Miller and Company, a removal and storage business based in Melbourne and shows off Melbourne city and suburbs of the mid 1940s. [read more]

Rites of Passage (1994)

The documentary looks at three teenagers and their families. Each teen is experiencing difficulties, and the filmmakers interview both sides as they struggle to resolve their differences [read more]

Dirty Deeds (2002)

Sydney, 1969. Barry Ryan (Bryan Brown), affable family man and gangster, controls most of the city’s booming poker machine trade, when the US mafia decides it wants to take over his patch. Barry’s nephew Darcy (Sam Worthington), just back from ... [read more]

Carcrash (1995)

Twenty-six people speak to camera about their emotional relationship with their car and their experience of a car accident. The interviews are intercut with stylised close ups of road signs, test dummy crashes and atmospheric photography. The music track gives ... [read more]

Ned Wethered (1983)

A young girl watches her father developing a photograph of Ned Wethered and recalls the rituals associated with his visits. Ned enters through the back gate, doffs his hat to her mother and plays with the family cat during morning ... [read more]

Doggie Day Afternoon (2000)

A light-hearted look at pampered dogs in the suburbs, produced for The LifeStyle Channel. The program features short segments about a hotel that welcomes dogs as guests, a doggie beauty parlour, a dog cemetery, and 'Dogue’ – the fashion house ... [read more]

Holidays in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Canton, Java (c1932)

This is silent home movie footage of Robert Minter’s travels through the South-East Asian cities of Shanghai, Hong Kong, Canton and Java in the early 1930s. [read more]

Black Harvest (1992)

By late 1989, filmmakers Robin Anderson and Bob Connolly were ready to go back to the PNG highlands to make the third film in the Highlands Trilogy, Black Harvest. This film follows First Contact (1983) and Joe ... [read more]

Jack O’Hagan: Vocalist Composer (1931)

In his only filmed performance, broadcaster, singer, composer and performing artist Jack O’Hagan recites five of his compositions, 'Carry On’, 'By the Big Blue Billabong’, 'In Dreamy Araby’, 'After the Dawn’ (1926) and – most famously – 'Along the Road ... [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]

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]

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