From: australian screen on Mon, Jan 28 2008 11:33 PM

Three women walk along the shoreline of an isolated beach. They then cartwheel across the sand. The same women are shown later on, wearing different clothes, walking through scrub along a fence line. They climb over the fence.

From: australian screen on Mon, Jan 28 2008 11:21 PM

Standing in front of his desk, Minister for Trade and Customs, Frank Forde, directly addresses the camera in a speech running over three minutes. The speech makes mention of: a new era in Australian industries; greater opportunities for production in Australia; high standards of production; the a...

From: australian screen on Mon, Jan 28 2008 11:05 PM

The camera captures a group on a horse and carriage; a woman dressed as Queen Victoria; and various groups of children dressed in costumes. Costumes include dressing up as Indians; Red Cross volunteers and Australian Troops; Chinese women; and band members in ‘black face’. A small group of unifor...

From: australian screen on Sun, Nov 25 2007 5:03 PM

This silent actuality footage was taken by the official photographer of the Queensland Department of Agriculture, Frederick Charles Wills, and his assistant Henry William Mobsby in 1899, and shows a horse-drawn Buckeye brand reaper and binder harvesting a wheat crop while labourers stack the whea...

From: australian screen on Sun, Nov 25 2007 3:02 PM

This clip captures images of the Tasmanian tiger, alone in its enclosure at Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart. The thylacine is shown in close-up investigating the camera, pacing up and down its small cage, yawning, lying in the sun, and sitting quietly.

From: australian screen on Sun, Nov 25 2007 3:01 PM

This clip captures images of the Tasmanian tiger, alone in its enclosure at Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart. The thylacine is shown in close-up investigating the camera, pacing up and down its small cage, yawning, lying in the sun, and sitting quietly.

From: australian screen on Sun, Nov 25 2007 3:01 PM

This clip shows the on board activities of some of the troops about to depart Sydney to fight in the First World War. It begins with many of them relaxing on deck. Another group of men participate in a coordinated exercise regime which includes stretches and push-ups. The final segment of this cl...

From: australian screen on Sun, Nov 25 2007 3:01 PM

Then prime minister, Gough Whitlam, addresses the State Dinner at Malacañang Palace, Manila, hosted by President Ferdinand and Mrs Imelda Marcos on 11 February 1974. The dinner is followed by a performance from the Bayanihan Dance Company. The next day a busy schedule of engagements begins with t...

From: australian screen on Sun, Nov 25 2007 3:01 PM

In Bendigo assisting with the Labor Party’s campaign for the May 1973 Victorian state elections, Gough Whitlam opens the 2nd Eaglehawk Dahlia and Arts Festival.

From: australian screen on Sun, Nov 25 2007 3:01 PM

This short piece of actuality footage shows people at St Kilda including at the entrance to Luna Park, Daylight Pictures Cinema and a jetty at the beach.

From: australian screen on Sun, Nov 25 2007 12:54 PM

This clip begins with the crowd watching an AFL match in 1925. They wave their hats to the camera. The AFL players run out onto the field and play.

From: australian screen on Sun, Nov 25 2007 12:54 PM

This clip of actuality footage taken in 1899, is one of the few pieces of film footage of Melanesian labourers cutting cane in Queensland. Melanesian workers stack the cane onto a wagon while their supervisor keeps a watchful eye.

From: australian screen on Sun, Nov 25 2007 12:53 PM

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

From: australian screen on Sun, Nov 25 2007 12:45 PM

The holiday accommodation in Sorrento is shown, along with tennis courts and gardens. A title card ‘all the girls are lovely by the seaside’ introduces men in their swimming trunks and women with parasols relaxing on the beach. A group of women walk along the foreshore with arms linked.

From: australian screen on Sun, Nov 25 2007 12:29 PM

This clip shows the governor-general Lord Thomas Denman arriving at the naming ceremony of Canberra. A royal salute is fired before Lord Denman lays a foundation stone.

From: australian screen on Sun, Nov 25 2007 12:29 PM

This clip shows the end of the 1896 Melbourne Cup horse race through the onlooking crowd. New Haven wins.

From: australian screen on Sun, Nov 25 2007 12:29 PM

HMAS Success is launched from Cockatoo Island, Sydney Harbour, on 3 March 1984 in front of a huge attending crowd.

From: australian screen on Sun, Nov 25 2007 12:17 PM

HMAS Success is launched from Cockatoo Island, Sydney Harbour, on 3 March 1984 in front of a huge attending crowd.

From: australian screen on Sun, Nov 18 2007 11:45 PM

From: australian screen on Sun, Nov 18 2007 11:44 PM

This actuality footage was taken by the official photographer of the Queensland Department of Agriculture, Frederick Charles Wills and his assistant, Henry William Mobsby in 1899. Crowds line the streets to watch the First Queensland Cavalry Contingent parade just before it departs for the Boer W...