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Maverick Mother (2007)
When filmmaker Janet Merewether decides to have a baby on her own, she keeps a personal video diary and films conversations with her parents, brothers, sisters-in-law and friends. She plans to become a solo mother by choice, but ends up ... [read more]
Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate – ‘Remember ... Cadbury’s Milk Tray’ (c1955)
These two black-and-white television advertisements for Cadbury’s Milk Tray chocolates date from the 1950s. [read more]
We Are Going (1986)
This is a rare recording of Oodgeroo Noonuccal (formerly known as Kath Walker) reading her poem ‘We Are Going’ at the Harold Park Hotel in Sydney 1986, recorded by the ABC. [read more]
Bad Boy Bubby (1993)
Bubby (Nicholas Hope) has spent all of his 35 years locked in one room. His mother (Claire Benito) feeds and washes him like a baby, but she also uses him for sex. She has raised him to believe that if ... [read more]
Poetry In Australia – Judith Wright (1963)
The poet Judith Wright (1915-2000) is introduced by well-known ABC broadcaster John Thompson in an interview that covers aspects of her early life on the land, her art as one of Australia’s premier poets and her activism as an ... [read more]
Jack and Jill: A Postscript (1970)
Jack Anderson (Tony Ward) lives in a condemned house with his mother (Jean Higgs) and lodger Stan (Stanley Randall) in the Melbourne working-class suburb of Maribyrnong. Gillian O’Keefe (Judy Leech), a middle-class kindergarten teacher, lives across the Maribyrnong Creek from ... [read more]
Death Defying Acts (2007)
In Edinburgh, Mary McGarvie (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and her daughter Benji (Saoirse Ronan) entertain audiences with a psychic act that depends on trickery. They spy on members of their audience and steal from them so they can dramatically reveal insider knowledge ... [read more]
Torque – Series 1, Episode 8 (1974)
A roundtable discussion arising out of the unacceptable road toll in Australia is introduced by program presenter Peter Wherrett and convened by Four Corners (2008) journalist Jim Downes. Those taking part include: Dr Michael Henderson, head of the traffic accident ... [read more]
Browne, George: Our movie memories 1928–1934 (1928)
This silent black-and-white 9.5 mm home movie compilation by amateur filmmaker George Browne shows the Browne family and friends enacting Kate of the Cactus Country, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Good Queen Bess. They were recorded between 1928 and 1934. [read more]
Full Frontal – Series 3 Episode 4 (1995)
Full Frontal is a sketch comedy show that followed the successful Fast Forward in format and style but with a new crop of writers and performers. [read more]
Buddies (1983)
In the gem fields of central Queensland, knockabout young miners Mike and Johnny (Colin Friels and Harry Hopkins) borrow heavily to take on a claim-jumping newcomer (Dennis Miller) who has money and muscle. Help arrives from an unlikely source – ... [read more]
Passionless Moments (1983)
Passionless Moments is a lighthearted series of vignettes sharing people’s fleeting thoughts. Jane Campion combines a serious documentary style with a whimsical look at the small moments people experience everyday. [read more]
Reunion (1998)
Producer, writer, director Lisa Wang tells the story of her family through home movies, interviews with her mother, siblings and relatives, and historical footage of Melbourne. It is the story of a Chinese family’s success in multicultural Australia. [read more]
Australasian Gazette – Ship Building as Hobby (c1925)
This segment from a newsreel from approximately 1925 shows builders of model passenger liners sailing and motoring their boats on a pond in Moore Park, Sydney. It features Mr Needum’s four funnel masterpiece and the ingenious model of the SS ... [read more]
Rinso Washing Powder: A Bachelor Grey (c1943)
Narrating the life of bachelor Henry, this cartoon-style advertisement for Rinso washing powder shows how this miraculous laundry product can turn anyone’s life around! [read more]
Tiga (1987)
Animated images of the Tasmanian tiger are depicted in different environments: a zoo, suburbia and bushland, as local people recall their sightings of this now extinct animal. [read more]
Father (1989)
Melbourne, 1989. Elderly widower Joseph Mueller (Max von Sydow) lives with his daughter, Anne (Carol Drinkwater), her husband Bobby (Steve Jacobs) and their daughters Rebecca (Simone Robertson) and Amy (Kahli Sneddon). Running a busy inner city hotel, the Winton family ... [read more]
Erskineville Kings (1999)
Barky (Marty Denniss) returns to Sydney for his father’s funeral. He has been away in Queensland for more than two years while his older brother Wace (Hugh Jackman) took care of their father after a stroke. The brothers are not ... [read more]
Play School – Trains Thursday (1969)
Don (Spencer) and Anne (Haddy) make a steam train out of a washing basket, plant pot, two ‘clean’ rubbish-tin lids and part of a garden rake. Passengers Big Ted, Little Ted and Humpty get on board. Then Ruth (Cracknell) tells ... [read more]
Ninety Nine Per Cent (1963)
Italian immigrant widower Joseph Pino (Francesco Pino) and his school-age son Peter (Carmelo Pino) are opposites personality-wise, living a domestically chaotic life after the death of their wife and mother. When Pino – which is what Joseph is usually called ... [read more]
