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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]
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]
Marn Grook (1996)
Marn Grook details Indigenous involvement in AFL since the game’s beginning. [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]
Melbourne Chinese Orchestra Selections (1931)
This is from the Efftee Entertainers series of variety shorts and shows eight members of Melbourne’s Chinese Orchestra performing in a film studio. [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]
A Changing Race (1964)
The 1964 black-and-white documentary A Changing Race interviews Aboriginal people about their life in Central Australia including their experience of racial discrimination. [read more]
Breaker Morant (1979)
In the Boer War in South Africa in 1901, three Australian 'irregular’ soldiers are tried by a British military court for the murder of 12 prisoners and a German missionary. The accused are Lieutenants Harry Morant (Edward Woodward), Peter Handcock ... [read more]
Dead-end Drive-in (1986)
In the 1990s economic and environmental disasters have reduced society to chaos. To combat looting and marauding ‘car boys’, authorities convert the Star Drive-in into a jail for unemployed young people. Captives are given action movies to watch and junk ... [read more]
Bit of Black Business – Nana (2007)
A Little Girl (Kiara Gibson) loves her Nana (Mitjili Napanangka Gibson) and follows her as she hunts, sells art and patrols her Alice Springs community for drug runners. Nana has everything and everyone under control. [read more]
Chequerboard Revisited – Episode 3: I Reckon I’m an Average Australian (2000)
Kevin and Margaret have four young children. They are a working couple, a rare phenomenon in the late 1960s when they first appeared on Chequerboard (1969-75). They were filmed again in 1972, when Kevin blamed feminism for his wife’s new ... [read more]
Down Under (1981)
‘Down Under’ was recorded for Men At Work’s first album ‘Business as Usual’ in 1981. It has become an Australian icon recognised internationally and considered by many to be an unofficial national anthem. [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]
Bliss (1985)
Harry Joy (Barry Otto) dies – for four minutes – after a heart attack. When he is revived, he realises he’s living in hell. His wife Bettina (Lynette Curran) is having an affair with his business partner Joel (Jeff Truman), ... [read more]
Peach’s Explorers – East to West (1984)
Edward John Eyre and his loyal companion Wylie, an Indigenous Australian, completed an epic journey across the terrible sand dunes of the Nullarbor Plain from South Australia to Albany in Western Australia in 1841. The journey was undertaken after Eyre ... [read more]
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
English writer Christian (Ewan McGregor) recalls his tumultuous experiences at the Moulin Rouge nightclub in Montmartre. Arriving in 1899 to be inspired by the bohemian atmosphere in the Parisian locality, Christian falls under the spell of the Moulin Rouge’s star ... [read more]
Skippy – Be Our Guest (1968)
Clancy (Liza Goddard) unwisely decides to go riding in the bush on the day her mother Mrs Merrick (Jessica Noad) is scheduled to visit. Thrown from her horse, dazed and lost, she is discovered by a group of Aboriginal men. ... [read more]
Saturday Night, Sunday Morning (1999)
A short film based on a story by Archie Weller, Saturday Night, Sunday Morning is the story of a robbery gone wrong, an unplanned kidnapping and its consequences. A young white girl is kidnapped by three youths – two black, ... [read more]
Message Stick – Wathaurong Glass (2003)
The Wathaurong community of Geelong began a glass business in order to provide employment for their people. [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]
