From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 9:41 AM

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To give a feast for the visiting Commissioner, the villagers use vines to catch thousands of fish. It is a community effort, with each villager given a role. They make a big circle around part of the lagoon and tie vines together which stretch over a mile. As the soundtrack swells with a cappella...

From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 9:21 AM

This clip shows an orange-peel scoop; ‘flying fox’ machinery; Lake Victoria; a channel bridge and inlet regulator; and the construction of channels and levees.

From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 9:16 AM

Children from a school in Arcadia gather around the back of the red-and-white boys’ and girls’ travelling library truck. Some of the children are shown climbing in to the back and emerging with books in their hands. The teachers mark off which books the children have chosen.

From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 9:11 AM

From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 9:02 AM

Two men complete chopping around the base of a large tree trunk with hand-held axes. The tree falls to the ground. At another tree, men stand on planks of wood embedded in the tree trunk that create a makeshift ladder and platform. The men, steadily balanced, chop into an elevated section of the ...

From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 8:57 AM

From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 8:54 AM

A voice-over prompts the question, would you meet your neighbours with warmth and friendship or with bombs? Images of friendly Chinese people are contrasted with the bombs and destruction of war. This then cuts to youth erecting posters for the Youth Carnival for Peace and Friendship which the vo...

From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 8:47 AM

Molly punches a bundy card, ‘clocking on’ at her work where she is a junior in a factory, sewing fabric on a sewing machine. After work, Molly is noticed in the street by an older man. She stops to chat with him before he leads her off down the street in an ambiguous end to the scene.

From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 8:37 AM

A group of women are collecting bush coconuts, with a younger woman climbing the tree to collect them. She throws them down to the older women. A woman breaks one open whilst holding it in the palm of her hand, and shows us how to eat the bush coconut.

From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 8:27 AM

Fadi introduces the workshop session of the youth conference. The attendees and facilitators break into discussion groups and talk about a range of issues.

From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 8:20 AM

Australian playwright, David Williamson, returns to his country school. He recalls the embarrassment of being tall and the beginnings of his interest in writing.

From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 8:05 AM

From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 7:45 AM

As the crucial hour approaches, members of the scientific expedition prepare their telescopic and scientific equipment to view the solar eclipse. They check the lenses, position mirrors, place slides, and test shutters. An intertitle explains the approach of the eclipse and is followed by a brief...

From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 7:32 AM

From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 7:11 AM

Residents of The Lorna Hodgkinson Sunshine Home for the intellectually handicapped are being fitted for costumes for the upcoming performance at the Sydney Opera House.

From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 7:06 AM

From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 7:00 AM

The running of the semi-finals and finals of the 130-yard footrace commences. TJ Miles from Queensland is the winner. He is presented with a sash, gold medal and trophy. He is congratulated by WJ Millard, the winner of the first running of the 130 yards in 1878.

From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 6:45 AM

The Premier of Victoria, Albert Dunstan, declares the Spirit of Progress ‘one of the finest passenger trains in the world’ in front of a large crowd. The inaugural trip departs Melbourne’s Spencer Street Station and is ushered on its journey across the state by enthusiastic onlookers.