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Kellogg’s Cornflakes: Tell Me a Story (c1943)

In this partly animated cinema advertisement for Kellogg’s Cornflakes, the benefits of a fast, nutritious and easy to prepare breakfast cereal are illustrated through a children’s story about Lady Kangaroo and her large family. [read more]

The Big Gig – Series 1 Episode 1 (1989)

A live comedy-variety show featuring stand-up comedians, sketch comedy and music. [read more]

Journey among Women (1977)

In the earliest years of Australian settlement, Elizabeth Harrington, a high-born and headstrong young woman (Jeune Pritchard) helps a group of convict women to escape constant rape by their jailers. They run off into the bush, where a young Aboriginal ... [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]

Faireez – A Chilling Plot (2005)

Quincy Questholler, Faireezia’s flying security guard, panics again! This time the weather has gone mad in sunny Faireezia, and it is snowing. Of course it is Jumpalina, the big-footed baddy in her floating castle, up to her tricks again. Wise ... [read more]

Four Corners – Blue Death (1988)

Wittenoom was home to more than 20,000 people who worked in the mining and processing of blue asbestos from 1944 until the mine closed in 1966. But blue asbestos is a killer and now, years after the mine closed, people ... [read more]

Harold (1994)

Harold Blair was the first Aboriginal person to sing on national radio. He studied singing in the USA and his tenor voice was heard throughout the world. This biographical documentary about his life honours his achievements in music and ... [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]

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]

Homes for Crippled Children (c1940)

Produced by Reverend RW Dobbinson, this silent film surveys convalescent homes and caring facilities for children with polio and other crippling diseases. It shows a number of homes and facilities across the country including the children’s ward of the Brisbane ... [read more]

Archibald Family: Family Scenes and Outings in Sydney (c1932)

This home movie produced by the Archibald family in approximately 1932, features a variety of scenes illustrating their family life. These include beach scenes, a young girl’s birthday party and shots from onboard a boat on Pittwater, Sydney. [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]

National Treasures – Endeavour Journal (2004)

Warren Brown leafs through the precious pages of James Cook’s 1770 journal to discover Cook’s first impressions and trace the beginning of Australia as we know it today. [read more]

Australia Today – Lucky Strike at Larkinville, WA and other segments (1938)

This Australia Today newsreel features three segments: Lucky Strike at Larkinville – about gold prospecting in Western Australia in 1932; Fangs of Death – about the dangers of deadly Australian snakes; and The Lucky Hour – about proposals for the ... [read more]

Eugénie Sandler PI – Episode Two (2000)

Crooked detective Matt Gurney (Martin Jacobs) detonates the explosive planted in the Sandler home but Eugénie (Xaris Miller) and Warwick (Matthew Vennell) manage to escape. Tony (Darcy Bonser), a young street kid, offers to help them only for Eugénie and ... [read more]

Shadow Play (2001)

In Indonesia, on 30 September 1965 a group of President Sukarno’s guards murdered six generals who were anti-Communist. General Suharto blamed the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI). Suharto grabbed power and set up death squads to murder up to ... [read more]

Arthur Boyd: Testament of a Painter (1994)

A portrait of Australian painter Arthur Boyd (1920 – 1999). Born into a family of painters, writers and potters in 1920, his paintings are displayed in galleries all over Australia and overseas. Themes in his paintings include man’s inhumanity to ... [read more]

Snowy Hydro – Sound and Safe (1963)

Produced in 1963 by the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electricity Authority (SMHEA) photographic unit (Harry Malcolm et al.), the film lays out safety procedures for hard rock tunnelling. [read more]

Shell Animated Commercial: Poster Man (1960)

In this animated advertisement for Shell Motor Oil, a cartoon ‘poster man’ comically attempts to secure a Shell poster on the side of a building. [read more]

Port Botany: A Planning Dilemma (1979)

A documentary that examines the environmental and community impacts of the Botany Bay port development and the conflicts between the different parties involved. [read more]

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