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Rinso Washing Powder: Easy Does It (1946) - Clip 1: The wonders of Rinso Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 Henry is a bachelor who lives alone in a small apartment. He has a ‘lady help’ who does his cooking and cleaning but will not wash his clothes. Hen...

Cockatoo Island: HMAS Success Launching (1984) - Clip 1: Launch of the HMAS Success Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 HMAS Success is launched from Cockatoo Island, Sydney Harbour, on 3 March 1984 in front of a huge attending crowd.

The Singing Chef (1952) - Clip 1: Animated vaudeville Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 An animated ‘poster man’ arrives at the front of a building on his bicycle – glue tin, paintbrush, ladder and posters in hand – to erect a poster o...

Rinso Washing Powder: A Bachelor Grey (c1943) - Clip 1: Then came happiness Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 Taking a narrative form, this advertisement from 1931 begins with Helen hanging out the clothes. Her daughter, Joan, brings her the mail and she op...

Shell Animated Commercial: Poster Man (1960) - Clip 1: Fairy story comes true Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 This black-and-white Rinso soap powder cinema advertisement from 1935 shows two young girls dressed in fairy costumes dancing in a lounge room. Whe...

Rinso Soap Powder: Then Came Happiness (1931) - Clip 1: Hilda and Hugh Jones Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 This Rinso advertisement from approximately 1940 introduces us to Hilda and Hugh Jones: the ‘wrong kind of wife’ and possibly the ‘right sort of hu...

Rinso Washing Powder: Fairy Story Comes True (c1935) - Clip 1: ‘That’s the Rinso way’ Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 An opening credits sequence introducing the stars of Easy Does It is accompanied by a musical soundtrack. The first scene is at a groc...

Rinso Laundry Powder : Hilda and Hugh Jones (c1940) - Clip 1: ‘Persil dazzle’ Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 In their bridal suite, a newly married couple on their honeymoon (Muriel Howard and Albert Chapelle), retell in song the story of how Persil Washin...

Metric Motoring (1974) - Clip 3: Making merry through the day Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 This clip from a silent Magnavox Wireless cinema advertisement shows a group of friends dancing to the music from a Magnavox Wireless at a picnic u...

Persil Washing Powder: Their Day (1946) - Clip 1: The joy of living Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 To be bright and full of energy in the mornings, it is crucial to get a good night’s rest. A man who has a heavy dinner, reads horror books and tos...

Nestle’s MILO Cinema Advertisement: The Joy of Living (1948) - Clip 1: Family album Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 John and his family are introduced through a real life family album. As the pages are turned, the voice-over tells the story of their lives. The fi...

Nestle’s MILO Cinema Advertisement: Family Album (1948) - Clip 1: What you need to know Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 This is one of the two television advertisements produced to facilitate the change to metric on Australian roads in July 1974.

Magnavox Wireless: Why Jones Chose a Magnavox (1925) - Clip 2: Factory visit Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 The villain tries to steal the formula for Life Savers sweets by convincing Betty to take him to her father’s Life Savers factory where she gives h...

Lifesavers: Cryst-O-Mint Flavour (1925) - Clip 3: ‘You boys and Kiwi are the goods!’ Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 Two young boys are hired to polish boots at the Imperial Hotel, London, after their trial goes surprisingly well. The hotel manager exclaims ‘You b...

Kiwi Shoe Polish: Shine Sir (1914) - Clip 1: The ‘30-second breakfast’ Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 A daughter’s voice (Janice Reid) pleads with her mother (Queenie Ashton) to tell her a story about a lady kangaroo. Her mother obliges with a story...

Here Comes Santa (1929) - Clip 1: ‘An army always marches on its stomach’ Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 An injured soldier in the jungles of New Guinea struggles as he runs out of food. A helicopter drops food rations nearby. Meanwhile, back in Austra...

Kellogg’s Cornflakes: Tell Me a Story (c1943) - Clip 3: Santa visits the Royal Alexandra Hospital Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007

Give Us This Day (1943) - Clip 1: Fourth Liberty Loan Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 In close-up a soldier screams ‘fire’ and a barrage of bombing in a nightscape is subtitled with text while voice-over urges the public to contribut...

CE Miller & Co Cinema Advertisement: Know Your Melbourne (c1945) - Clip 2: The basis of all frocking Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 In the closing minutes of this advertisement, mannequins and live models appear in Berlei’s figure-hugging foundation garments, the ‘basis for all ...

Fourth Liberty Loan (1943) - Clip 1: The electric Kooka stove Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 ‘Mrs Sydney’ (Pat Firman) prepares an evening meal for her husband with her newly acquired electric range while a voice-over emphasises the stove’s...

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