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Raccolta D’Inverno, Winter’s Harvest (1979)
The documentary records the traditional Italian community event of slaughtering a pig, butchering it for the meat, making sausages and having a feast with dancing enjoyed by the whole group. [read more]
Fashionista – Donna-May Bolinger (2004)
Donna-May Bolinger has attempted to move beyond designing shoes, to incorporate a feminist history in her work – in this case, the biography of an early 20th century circus artiste. [read more]
Wind (1999)
A short drama about the relationship between a black tracker and his 'boss’. They are tracking an Aboriginal man accused of murder. [read more]
Timber (1947)
This documentary about the timber industry in Victoria features several ways of hauling logs from the forest – by bullock teams, with wire pulleys, by tractor and by rail. It was made by Herschells Films and sponsored by the Shell ... [read more]
Centenary Celebrations of Melbourne, Victoria (1934)
This unedited newsreel footage contains a speech given by the Duke of Gloucester opening Melbourne’s centenary celebrations. [read more]
Kylie Tennant (1986)
An interview with the writer Kylie Tennant (1912–1988), filmed at her home in Blackheath NSW, between February and May 1985. [read more]
Jewboy (2005)
After the death of his father, a respected rabbi, 23-year-old Yuri (Ewen Leslie) rejects his strict Hasidic upbringing and becomes a taxidriver in Sydney. He gives up his own rabbinical studies, rejects his girlfriend (Saskia Burmeister) and insults his grandmother, ... [read more]
Aunty Connie (2006)
Aunty Connie is described as a love story. It uses voice-over narration (Deborah Mailman), historical photographs and interviews with Aunty Connie McDonald, an Indigenous woman who was born with weak bones, and whose first steps broke both her legs. [read more]
Australasian Gazette – Spectacular Surf Club Parade at Bondi Championships Carnival (c1929)
This segment from an Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1929 shows a Scottish pipe band leading the opening parade of a surf carnival at Bondi Beach, Sydney. Surf clubs including North Bondi, Maroubra, Curl Curl, Clovelly, Collaroy and Manly participate. ... [read more]
Australia’s 150th Anniversary Celebrations, Sydney (1938)
This home movie captures the parade on 26 January 1938 celebrating the 150th anniversary of Captain Arthur Phillip’s arrival on Australian shores. Parading down a city street are an Aboriginal float, a First Fleet float, a Governor Philip float and ... [read more]
Walk Into Paradise (1956)
As he’s heading for Australia on leave, senior patrol officer Steve McAllister (Chips Rafferty) is recalled to take a patrol into unmapped territory in the highlands of Australian-administered New Guinea. An old prospector, 'Sharkeye’ Kelly (Reg Lye), has discovered oil ... [read more]
Frontline (1979)
A biographical documentary about the working life of combat cameraman and correspondent, Neil Davis (1934–1985). The former Tasmanian went to Vietnam in 1974, working for the London based Visnews. He worked alone filming the Vietnam War and continued on into ... [read more]
Here I Am (2011)
During her first week of life after release from a women’s prison, Karen Burden (Shai Pittman) attempts to reorientate herself back into society. She plans to reunite with her three-year-old daughter and to rebuild a relationship with her estranged mother ... [read more]
Footy Chicks (2006)
Footy Chicks enters the world of AFL, league and union footballers and the women who pursue them. It explores the heady mix of alcohol, peer pressure and sexual desire, and the slippery boundary between having a good ... [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]
Compass – Pregnant Pause (2006)
Four women talk about their experiences with unwanted pregnancies in the fifties, an era before abortion was readily available. One of the women already had two children, was looking after her invalid father, and living with a violent and alcoholic ... [read more]
Noah and Saskia – Tomorrow Never Knows (2004)
Feisty Saskia (Hannah Greenwood) seeks revenge when a faceless geek somewhere in cyber world steals her music. This opening episode of a 13-part series shows the start of the online relationship between two teenagers – the uncool but quick-tongued Saskia ... [read more]
Travelling Library (c1946)
Made by the Children’s Library Movement, this silent colour footage follows the Boys’ and Girls’ Travelling Library from its base centre at Hornsby to school children around the Shire. [read more]
Big Girls Don’t Cry (2002)
A moving documentary about Indigenous women living with kidney disease. [read more]
Sellex Crockery: Red Riding Hood (c1930)
In this partly animated advertisement for a Sellex tea set, some of the characters that decorate the crockery appear in the story Red Riding Hood. [read more]
