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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]

Moulin Rouge! (2001)

English writer Christian (Ewan McGregor) recalls his tumultuous experiences at the Moulin Rouge nightclub in Montmartre. Arriving in 1899 to be inspired by the bohemian atmosphere in the Parisian locality, Christian falls under the spell of the Moulin Rouge’s star ... [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]

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]

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]

Waiting (1990)

Single, heavily pregnant Clare Fairweather (Noni Hazlehurst) is a successful artist living on a rural property. After experiencing her first contractions she contacts her three closest female friends to join her for the planned home birth, as arranged. Arriving ... [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]

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]

Lift Off – A Load of Old Rubbish (1992)

The theme of this episode is rubbish. It is in two separate 24-minute parts and has the usual Lift Off mix of live action, animation, puppetry music, documentary and fantasy. The main storyline in each part is about the Lift ... [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]

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]

Blackbuster (2012)

Rowdy punters at a kooky Queensland pub stir an unusual awakening in pirated-DVD dealer Kainen (Jeremy Ambrum). As his crush grows for Tanika (Naomi Bowly), the daughter of the publican (Martin Sacks), his uncontrollable imagination takes us on a ... [read more]

Corroboree (1950)

This is an orchestral suite for a ballet by Australian composer John Antill, first recorded in 1950 by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. [read more]

Thank God He Met Lizzie (1997)

Guy (Richard Roxburgh) meets Lizzie (Cate Blanchett) while trying to find the owner of a cat in distress. For him, it is love at first sight and within six weeks they decide to marry. Guy starts daydreaming about his old ... [read more]

Wirriya: Small Boy (2004)

An observational documentary about Ricco Japaljarri Martin, an eight-year-old boy who lives in Hidden Valley with his foster mother. Wirriya, Small Boy is part of the Nganampa Anwernekenhe series produced by Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) Productions. Nganampa ... [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]

Clarke, Robin JH: Sydney Diary (1950)

In this 1950s silent home movie footage, we spend a typical evening with the Clarke family at their Wahroonga home in North Sydney. [read more]

Melbourne Chinese Orchestra Selections (1931)

This is from the Efftee Entertainers series of variety shorts and shows eight members of Melbourne’s Chinese Orchestra performing in a film studio. [read more]

A Cold Summer (2003)

A Cold Summer depicts the dysfunctional entanglement of three damaged young individuals in Sydney, two of them old female school friends, the third a male alcoholic living in his car. Bobby (Teo Gebert), who has absented himself from his ... [read more]

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