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Queen Street and Victoria Bridge (1899)

This actuality footage, shot in 1899, shows electric trams in Queen Street, Brisbane, with the Treasury building and Victoria Bridge in the background. [read more]

One Man’s Instrument (1989)

On a lush banana plantation, a farmer views his crop and plays on his trumpet, coaxing the bananas to grow. Suddenly, on the horizon, a high-rise building appears with a thud and multiplies into more buildings, surrounding the farmer on ... [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]

Us Deadly Mob (2005)

Us Deadly Mob is a short documentary about an Indigenous family of surfers – a 'surf family story’. [read more]

Cadbury’s Crunchie – ‘Golden Groovy Beautiful Crunchie’ (c1966)

This is a 30-second television advertisement for Cadbury’s Crunchie chocolate bars. [read more]

A Ticket in Tatts (1934)

George (George Wallace) gets fired from his job at a country grocer’s shop. He is hired by the local stud farm, where he has a favourite horse. Hotspur is fancied to win the Melbourne Cup, but big city crooks want ... [read more]

Australasian Gazette – Sheep Dog Trial (1915)

This newsreel segment from 1915 shows a typical Australian showground and a scene of a sheepdog trainer and a sheepdog herding three sheep into a pen. [read more]

Mimi (2002)

A short drama about a young Western art collector who gets more than she’s bargained for when she purchases Indigenous art pieces that include a Mimi statue and a painting of a barramundi. [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]

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]

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]

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]

Australasian Gazette – Maoris Give Their War Cry (c1922)

This newsreel from about 1922 shows a Maori rugby league team doing a haka war dance before a football match. The New South Wales team poses for the camera and a match is captured in progress. [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]

Australasian Gazette – A Unique Audience (c1920)

This Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1920 shows injured soldiers from Caulfield Military Hospital attending a special matinee arranged by the management at Elsternwick Theatre. [read more]

Turn Around (2002)

A romantic comedy about a young man who fantasises about a liaison with a stranger, yet fails to see the real woman before him. [read more]

Nobby’s Nuts (1988)

Characters in posters on a pub wall come to life and interact. Coming together in one poster, they decide to make a party of it and ‘nibble Nobby’s Nuts’. [read more]

General Motors Holden – Happy in a Holden (1962)

This television advertisement is a short interview with a satisfied Holden driver and his family in the parking lot outside a Collingwood-Hawthorn AFL game. [read more]

Smart’s Labyrinth (1994)

Australian artist Jeffrey Smart has been living in Italy since the 1970s. This documentary looks at his life in the 1990s. He reflects on his life as a painter and offers observations about his artistic work. The film features footage ... [read more]

Out There – Two Down Under (2002)

In small-town Wollemi, teenager Miller (Richard Wilson) observes two overseas newcomers arriving at the vet clinic next door. Reilly (Douglas Smith) is a reluctant refugee from his wealthy family’s troubles in America, while UK-born Aggie (Jade Ewen) is starting her ... [read more]

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