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Murray-Will, Ewan: Ballet Russes (c1936)
This amateur footage, filmed by Ewan Murray-Will, captures two solo dancers from the Ballets Russes du Monte Carlo dancing on a Sydney beach and a grassy slope. [read more]
Australasian Gazette – Goodbye Sunny New South Wales (c1917)
This Australasian Gazette newsreel clip from approximately 1917 shows soldiers being despatched to the front during the First World War in a public parade in Sydney. It was hoped that the parade would encourage further recruitment. [read more]
Couldn’t Be Fairer (1984)
A documentary that intercuts historical footage with live interview material, Couldn’t Be Fairer borrows its title from a statement made by Joh Bjelke Peterson, and explores the injustice endured by Aboriginal peoples. [read more]
Australasian Gazette – Dame Nellie Melba (c1920)
This black-and-white silent story from an Australasian Gazette newsreel shows opera soprano Dame Nellie Melba accompanied by John Lemmone, Lady Pamela Vestey as a child and others, walking along the deck of the passenger liner RMS Niagara, which has ... [read more]
Chequerboard – Too Much For Molony (1969)
Love conquers all in this moving story about a Catholic priest who leaves his order to live outside 'the cloisters’ with one of his young parishioners. [read more]
Miss Minnie Love in Impressions: Maurice Chevalier (c1931)
Stage performer Minnie Love adopts a French accent and straw hat to present an impression of French musical comedy star Maurice Chevalier performing the songs 'On Top of the World, Alone’ (which Chevalier sang in Innocents of Paris, 1929) and ... [read more]
Fetch (1998)
The story of a man (Matt Day), his date (Rebecca Frith), her dog (Mindy) and how quickly a fledgling romance can progress from awkward to awful. [read more]
27A (1974)
An alcoholic man in the Queensland prison system is transferred to a psychiatric hospital at his own request, for treatment. What he doesn’t realise is that under section 27A of the Queensland Mental Health Act, he can be held indefinitely. ... [read more]
Man Without Pigs (1990)
John Waiko is the first Papua New Guinea man to graduate with a PhD and be appointed a professor. He returns to the Binandere clan and his small village of Tabara in the Northern Province of PNG. ... [read more]
Gettin’ Square (2003)
After eight years in jail for a murder he didn’t commit, Barry Wirth (Sam Worthington) gets paroled because of the death of his mother. He returns to the Gold Coast determined to stay out of trouble, but trouble keeps finding ... [read more]
Opening of Queensland Parliament (1899)
This actuality footage shows Lord Lamington, Governor of Queensland, arriving by horse-drawn carriage to open Queensland Parliament on 18 May 1899. A guard of honour, consisting of Queensland’s Permanent Artillery under Lieutenant Black, stands by as the dignitaries disembark from ... [read more]
Travelling North (1987)
After retiring, Frank (Leo McKern) and his new companion Frances (Julia Blake) leave Melbourne to begin a new life in Port Douglas, in far north Queensland. He’s an irascible ex-communist civil engineer; she’s a sweet-tempered woman who believes in God ... [read more]
Romeo + Juliet (1996)
The city of Verona Beach is dominated by a bitter feud between the families of Fulgencio Capulet (Paul Sorvino) and Ted Montague (Brian Dennehy). Ted’s son, Romeo (Leonardo DiCaprio), sneaks into a masked ball at the Capulet mansion and falls ... [read more]
Australia Daze (1988)
An observational documentary shot on the bicentennial anniversary of Australia’s European settlement. Twenty-nine directors working all over Australia have contributed segments as Australians celebrated 26 January 1988. [read more]
Maxonol Gramophone: Buy a Good Gramophone and Keep Her at Home (1925)
In this Maxonol Gramophone cinema advertisement a mother and father decide to buy a gramophone to keep their teenage daughter at home. They visit the Maxonol demonstration room and purchase their gramophone with successful results. [read more]
Rinso Soap Powder: Then Came Happiness (1931)
This cinema advertisement for Rinso soap powder from 1931 is a short drama about a woman, worn out by the drudge of washing day, who is introduced to Rinso by a girlfriend during a bridge night. [read more]
Ross Smith’s Flight from London to Australia (1919)
In 1919, Australian aviator Ross Smith and his crew became the first Australians to fly between England and Australia in under 30 days. Their journey took them over the Middle East, through Asia and the subcontinent, and on to Darwin. ... [read more]
Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate – ‘A Milk Tray Day Today’ (c1955)
This is a compilation of three 30-second black-and-white advertisements from a Cadbury’s Milk Tray campaign dating from the mid-1950s. [read more]
Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate – ‘Happiness for Two’ (c1960)
This is a compilation of three 30-second black-and-white television ads for Cadbury’s Milk Tray chocolates with the slogan 'happiness for two’. [read more]
Visit of Deputy PM Forde to UN Conference (1945)
This film consists of three reels of unedited footage, colour and black-and-white, shot during the 1945 trip of Australian Deputy Prime Minister Francis Forde and Dr HV Evatt to the United Nations Conference on International Organisation (UNCIO) in San ... [read more]
