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- Three stories, each presenting a young Australian at a moment of decision about their future.
- The story of John Grierson, the British documentary movement, and Canada's National Film Board.
- This is a condensed version of a series of films made in 1965 and 1967 of trips to the Western Desert region of Australia. The object of these trips was to film the daily life of the nomadic Aboriginal people living in the Gibson Desert of Central Australia. Although this land is one of the most arid regions of Australia, the people who lived there regarded it as rich in resources. The series was devised as an ethnographic record and was sponsored by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies for the then Commonwealth Film Unit. (From the National Film and Sound Archives of Australia)
- The film portraits Australian composer Richard Meale as he composes and conducts his sextet "Incredible Floridas". The work is an hommage to French poet Arthur Rimbaud. Weir's short documentary tells the story of both composer, work and poet.
- From the series of short documentaries "Adults Learning". This entry presents a group of people spending some time in the countryside of Australia dealing with agricultural matters and materials, learning about how to deal with the technology available to improve quality work on the field.
- A classroom film about the importance of roads in Australia.
- In 1940 and 1942 well-known Australian anthropologist C P Mountford made scientific expeditions into central Australia for the University of Adelaide. He travelled in desert country to the west and southwest of Alice Springs and photographed material which, in 1946 he edited into two films, Walkabout and Tjurunga. Mountford's films are an irreplaceable ethnographic record of the life of the Pitjantjatjara people of this area, before extended contact with European culture. In Walkabout, he narrates his experiences on a journey through central Australia with a group of Pitjantjatjara people. Walkabout records food gathering and preparation, hunting, fire making and family life as well as scenes near and on the sacred rock formation, Uluru. In 1974, at the request of the local Aboriginal community, certain sequences showing ceremony were removed from the film, and the two films were combined into one. Mountford's original narration has been retained.
- Instructional film on motorcycle safety.
- A look into beekeeping.
- Where Dead Men Lie is a short drama based on a "script" written by Henry Lawson in 1896 in the earliest days of moving pictures. Anticipating the development of dramatic cinema, Lawson wrote his story, The Australian Cinematograph, with clear directions for the camera.
- Scenes of life in the Tasmanian city of Launceston. Includes scenes of housing, industries, and recreation.
- This is a training film for new entrants to the Commonwealth Taxation Office of Australia.
- A theatrically-released short documentary about astronomy.
- A classroom film for children aged 6 to 8 years. A family enjoys their visit to the beach.
- A road safety film. A man has been drinking at the bar, but he's not visibly drunk. Then he goes for a drive.
- A man pursues his dream yachting, by building a Fireball sailing dingy with the assistance of a professional boat builder. Not everything goes to plan when he launches the boat.
- A short film reminding drivers to be patient while driving.
- A documentary about how migrants are important to the future of Australia.
- One of Australia's most famous photographers and explorers, Frank Hurley, presents this absorbing film on the history of Australia's first expeditions to the Antarctic continent between 1911 and 1954. In the summer of 1911, a group of pioneers set off from Hobart on the tall ship Aurora to an unknown land. Their send-off was captured by Hurley in remarkable, archival footage. Buffeted by blizzards, and with the ever-present threat of crevasses, they made Cape Dennison in Commonwealth Bay their base for one year. Hurley describes his subsequent expeditions to the region with Shackleton, Wilkins and Campbell. Campbell's expedition in 1947 saw the establishment of scientific stations at Heard and Macquarie Islands. In 1954, Hurley joined the expedition led by Phillip Law on the Danish ice-breaker, the Kista Dan. Hurley's original footage shows the ship edging its way across the pack ice to the safety of the harbour where the first permanent Australian post in the Antarctic, Mawson Station was established. A rare film which reveals the true hardship and courage of these early pioneers.
- A documentary showing scenes of life in Hobart, Tasmania.
- Documentary about shark conservation and how it benefits shark fishers.
- A documentary showing swimmers in training.
- A colourful light-hearted documentary showing Australia's national parks.
- George Reynolds, recently discharged from the army, tells his father of his plans to marry and relax. Reynolds Snr tells his son that if Australia is to avoid another postwar Depression, its citizens need to work hard towards a better future.
- Short documentary about a cattle station in Northern Territory.
- A short documentary showing some of Tasmania's national parks.
- This theatrically-released road safety PSA spoofs American crime dramas.