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Double Trouble – Episode 7 (2007)
Double Trouble is about twin sisters previously unknown to each other – one lives in Alice Springs, the other in Sydney. The twins accidentally cross paths and decide to swap identities. In this seventh episode of the series, changing places ... [read more]
Clifton Pugh (1988)
In this short film Australian landscape painter Clifton Pugh is interviewed by Nina O’Leary. He describes painting the Australian bush, his influences and his plan to keep the bushland virginal. The interview is intercut with examples of his work. [read more]
Bitter Springs (1950)
Wally King (Chips Rafferty), with his family and stockmen, drive livestock over hundreds of kilometres of dry country to take up their new selection at Bitter Springs, in central Australia. A government trooper (Michael Pate) warns them that they are ... [read more]
Gillies (1987)
The documentary is a biography of comedian Max Gillies. The film cuts between performance pieces caricaturing public figures like Bob Hawke and Ronald Reagan, and Gillies’ private life at home with his family. Gillies comments on the business of being ... [read more]
Dimpel, Konrad: Red Hill (1964)
This silent colour home movie, captured by Konrad Dimpel, shows his children quietly entertaining themselves over Christmas in 1964. The Dimpel children – Annemaria, Andrew and Harold – play with the gifts they have received for Christmas. While Annemaria plays ... [read more]
Bit of Black Business – Done Dirt Cheap (2007)
Not far from the bustling Kalgoorlie mines, local Aboriginal couple Amos (Trevor Jamieson) and Gracie (Wendy Martin) are fossicking for gold with a pick and shovel. It seems they have hit paydirt so Amos heads to town where gold is ... [read more]
Australia Today – Antarctic Pioneers (1963)
In his last appearance on film, veteran Antarctic explorer and photographer Frank Hurley introduces a survey of footage covering the history of Australian expeditions in Antarctica, including scenes from Hurley’s first trip south with Sir Douglas Mawson in 1911. The ... [read more]
Here Comes Santa (1929)
This silent, black-and-white cinema advertisement from 1929 for Anthony Hordern & Sons shows Santa arriving at Farm Cove, Sydney then transported by a horse-drawn carriage through the Botanic Gardens and along Elizabeth and George Streets to a crowd outside the ... [read more]
Message Stick – Wayne’s World (2005)
An episode that introduces us to award-winning filmmaker and actor Wayne Blair. [read more]
Desert Tracks (1997)
A film that speaks about the Pitjantjatjara people’s efforts to preserve vital cultural information in order to care for land by turning to tourism. [read more]
My Brother Vinnie (2006)
A documentary that explores the relationship between Arrernte actor Aaron Pedersen and his brother Vinnie who have grown up as each others’ shadow. From a very young age Vinnie gave his older brother Aaron duty of care. Aaron is a ... [read more]
Good Girls Do Swallow (2000)
Produced for the Lifestyle Channel, this documentary examines dieting women. Presented by Rachael Oakes-Ash, it takes a witty look at widespread dieting and its consequences. Personalities, people in the street, schoolgirls and experts are interviewed. Oakes-Ash performs a few comedy ... [read more]
Rachel’s Story (1997)
At sixteen, Rachel began working as a prostitute in Kings Cross and became addicted to heroin. She met Clive, who helped her recover from the addiction and give up prostitution. They subsequently married. Some years later, Rachel decides to help ... [read more]
Has Beans (1998)
While snoozing peacefully, a plump little kidney bean is accosted by two malicious lima beans. Kicking the little bean as if it were a ball, the lima beans amuse themselves with the kidney bean’s pain. The maligned bean complains to ... [read more]
Lucky Miles (2007)
An Indonesian fishing boat dumps six Cambodians and six Iraqis on the remote coast of northwest Australia, in 1990. Muluk (Sawung Jabo), the captain, tells them to climb a dune to a bus stop, then sails away, knowing there is ... [read more]
Life Guards at Bondi Beach (c1929)
A fragment of actuality footage that shows lifesavers marching on Bondi Beach, a demonstration rescue of a person from the surf and lifesaving boats being rowed out into the surf in front of onlooking crowds. [read more]
BeDevil (1993)
BeDevil, a trilogy of ghost stories, uses myth interwoven with living memory to evoke a sense of place. Told in three parts – 'Mr Chuck’, 'Choo Choo Choo Choo’, and 'Lovin’ The Spin I’m In’ – BeDevil exposes the blurred ... [read more]
Cheeky Dog (2006)
A documentary about a young Indigenous boy with muscular dystrophy and his fascination with dogs. Cheeky Dog is part of the Nganampa Anwernekenhe series produced by Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) Productions. Nganampa Anwernekenhe means 'ours’ in the ... [read more]
General Motors Holden – Export Holden Version 2 (c1962)
This television advertisement for General Motors Holden showcases the economic and cultural value of Holden exports to markets in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, including Malaya, Thailand and Iran. It includes footage of Holdens in some of these countries ... [read more]
McKenzie, Roger and Kent, Bernie: Silent Car Trip Australia (c1960)
This travelogue is edited into segments based around the places and sites of interest that they visited on a trip through South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. Each segment contains distinctive title cards with words appearing against various ... [read more]
