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Kraft Cheddar Cheese Cinema Advertisement: Food for Thought (c1941)
This black-and-white and colour Kraft Cheddar Cheese advertisement looks at food preparation, food value and how Kraft cheese can make the difference to nutrition. [read more]
Ocean Girl – Series 2, Episode 3 (1995)
Able to swim like a fish and telepathically communicate with a humpback whale called Charley, ocean girl Neri (Marzena Godecki) is searching for the secret of her past. With the Bates brothers Jason (David Hoflin) and Brett (Jeffrey Walker), and ... [read more]
Blood Brothers – Freedom Ride (1993)
A documentary that intercuts interview material with historical footage, Freedom Ride, written and directed by Rachel Perkins, delves into the political motivations of her father, Dr 'Kumantjayi’ (Charlie) Perkins. Perkins was a university student in the 60s and led other ... [read more]
Art + Soul (2010)
Senior art curator Hetti Perkins travels across the country meeting with leading Aboriginal artists in an endeavour to answer some fundamental questions. Why do artists make art? Why do they share their stories of home or their journeys away, their ... [read more]
Farrow, H: Victorian and South Australian Holiday Scenes (c1930)
This home movie contains holiday scenes in Victoria and South Australia from the 1930s filmed by H Farrow. [read more]
Seven Little Australians (1973)
This is the story of the Woolcot family – Captain John Woolcot (Leonard Teale) from the NSW Regiment, his young second wife Esther (Elizabeth Alexander), and his seven children and their adventures in late 19th century Sydney. It is ... [read more]
Smiley Gets a Gun (1958)
Smiley (Keith Calvert) is constantly in trouble so the local policeman, Sergeant Flaxman (Chips Rafferty), offers him a deal. If he can behave responsibly, for a prolonged period, he can have the sergeant’s own .22 rifle. He has to earn ... [read more]
Tracey McBean - Episode 6, Series One, Multiplication (2001)
Child inventor Tracey McBean (voiced by Roslyn Oades) loves a challenge, and when her friend Shamus (voiced by Anthony Hayes) needs to be in two different places at the same time, this isn’t a problem for an intrepid genius. Tracey ... [read more]
Splendid Fellows (1934)
Monty Ralston (Frank Leighton), amateur aviator and dissolute son of an English shipping magnate, is shipped off to Australia in an effort to reform him. After almost getting arrested at a two-up game, he and his manservant Thompson (Leo Franklin) ... [read more]
Mullet (2001)
Eddie ‘Mullet’ Maloney (Ben Mendelsohn) returns to the small coastal town where he grew up after three years in the city. Rebellious and turbulent as a youth, he is now even more lost, unsure if he should stay or go. ... [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]
Mr Squiggle and Friends – Cheer Up (1990)
The episode opens with Reg (Mikel Robins) and Bill Steamshovel (Norman Hetherington) discussing rain, which would make Gus the Snail happy but Bill unhappy (because he rusts). They then cheer each other up with some riddles. Rebecca (Hetherington) prepares a ... [read more]
Moodeitj Yorgas (1988)
Made during the 1980s, Moodeitj Yorgas is an experimental documentary by Tracey Moffatt on prominent Indigenous women. Moffatt uses her experience as a visual artist to make a film that is somewhat experimental and unconventional about the strength of Aboriginal ... [read more]
Albion, Douglas: Children’s Party (c1921)
A home movie filmed by the Albion family of a children’s Christmas party in the 1920s. Most of the footage focuses on five-year-old Wally and takes place over a single afternoon. The three minutes of 35 mm silent footage ... [read more]
Sugar Mills, Nambour (1899)
This actuality footage shows a horse-drawn tramway of cane arriving at a conveyor belt at a sugar mill in Nambour, Queensland. The cane is trimmed and carried by conveyor belt into the mill for crushing. [read more]
Terrain in South East Asia (1964)
This is an army training film containing a detailed study of the terrain of Thailand and Malaysia (then called Malaya). [read more]
A World to Conquer (1956)
In this amateur science fiction short drama made by John and Frank Straford, a man (Kerry Beckwith) witnesses an alien surveillance camera land in his backyard, but his wife (Jeanette Van Boom) does not believe him. [read more]
Peter Nicholson Animations – Gough’s World Tour (1974)
Political cartoonist Peter Nicholson satirises Gough Whitlam as he heads off on a world tour following a record anti-Labor vote in the Queensland State elections. [read more]
CNNNN: Chaser Non-stop News Network – Lunchgate (2002)
CNNNN: Chaser Non-stop News Network is a fictional 24-hour Australian news channel mimicking the formats of shows like US television’s CNN and Fox News. The show is presented as an 'interruption’ in the ABC's usual programming, to ... [read more]
Money Movers (1979)
On the day that one of his armoured cars is robbed, Lionel Darcy (Frank Wilson) receives an anonymous tip off that his multi-million dollar counting house will soon be hit. A corrupt detective (Alan Cassell) passes this information to crime ... [read more]
