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Warringah Expressway (1969)
A public relations film made for the New South Wales Department of Main Roads (DMR) by Kingcroft Productions which documents the planning, construction and completion of the first stage of the Warringah Expressway from the northern approach of the ... [read more]
Lift Off – That’s Not Fair – Part B (1992)
This is part B of the episode That’s Not Fair, and has the usual Lift Off mix of live action, animation, puppetry, music, documentary and fantasy. The main storyline is about the Lift Off kids, interspersed with the other elements. ... [read more]
Eco House Challenge – Episode 1, Stop Your Gassing (2007)
Two Australian families have accepted the eco challenge to turn their lives around by changing their daily usage of water, transport, energy and waste removal. One family is led by an ex-army commando father, who uses this opportunity to teach ... [read more]
Age Before Beauty (1980)
Designed to provoke thought and discussion, Age Before Beauty examines the issues around ageing, as it relates to women. The film combines interviews with women (young and old), with observational footage and narration to cover topics like social perceptions of ... [read more]
Thoroughbred (1936)
Tommy Dawson (Frank Leighton), would-be horse trainer, buys an emaciated stallion called Stormalong on a trip to New Zealand. When it loses its first race, the insecure Tommy vows to sell it, but Tommy’s fiancé Joan (Helen Twelvetrees), a much ... [read more]
Compass – Paws For Thought (2000)
Traditional Christianity taught that humans are superior to animals. Science is rapidly changing that perception. So is non human life important and if so why? [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]
Cenotaph (1993)
The documentary looks at the effect of the First World War on the New South Wales country town of Hay. Seven women and 641 men went to the war from Hay. One hundred and three were killed and more than ... [read more]
Double-decker Bus and Rail Motor (c1936)
This footage, shot by Mr Waddington of Smith and Waddington Ltd, displays a range of newly constructed buses including a double-decker bus. [read more]
Shifting Sands – My Bed Your Bed (1998)
A young couple promised in marriage to each other as children, now move in together and the courtship truly begins. [read more]
All About Olive (2004)
Filmmaker Mike Rubbo takes 105-year-old Olive Riley back to her childhood home in Broken Hill, western NSW, to talk about her life. Rubbo enlists Olive’s help to faithfully recreate scenes from Olive’s early life, using locals dressed in period ... [read more]
Robbery Under Arms (1985)
The Marston brothers, Dick (Steve Vidler) and Jim (Chris Cummins), are wild young men from the bush during the reign of Queen Victoria, who turn to a life of bushranging at the toss of a coin. Captain Starlight (Sam Neill), ... [read more]
Marvellous Melbourne: Queen City of the South (c1910)
This silent documentary with intertitles was compiled by producer Charles Cozens Spencer and cinematographer Ernest Higgins. It documents architecture, transport, and recreation in Melbourne in the early part of last century. [read more]
Shit Skin (2002)
A short drama about a young man who takes his grandmother back to the place of her childhood so that she may reconnect with her surviving family. [read more]
Australasian Gazette – Conversion (c1920)
This Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1920 shows the commencement of work at Victoria Parade for the electrification of the cable tram system of Collins Street, Melbourne, and informs us of the opposition to it. [read more]
Coruba Jamaican Rum (1979)
This animated cinema commercial for Coruba Jamaican Rum celebrates the lifestyle associated with the spirit’s origins. [read more]
Man of Flowers (1983)
Charles Bremer (Norman Kaye), a retired, wealthy aesthete, regularly hires Lisa (Alyson Best), a young female artist’s model, to strip for him to the soundtrack of a Donizetti aria. Charles writes letters to his dead mother, plays church organ, loves ... [read more]
Australia Post – Joint Stamp Issue (1988)
This program records Australia Post’s release of a special joint Australian and United States bicentennial stamp and a commemorative bicentenary book of stamps. [read more]
Anthem: An Act of Sedition (2004)
A documentary by filmmakers Tahir Cambis and Helen Newman addressing the contemporary events that have changed the political and cultural landscape. It travels from Australia to Iraq, Afghanistan and the United States between 2000 and 2004. It addresses the disempowerment ... [read more]
Deadly Yarns – Sugar Bag (2004)
When Laurel grew too big to hide from the troopers, her mother placed her in a mission, close to where the family lived, in order to maintain ongoing contact with her daughter. Now 70 years old, Laurel Cooper, with ... [read more]
