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A Shining Example (c1920) - Clip 2: ‘Buy Australian goods’ Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 Packaged bundles of Australian woollen goods are ready for despatch to the capital cities nationwide. An intertitle introduces Miss Australia who a...

On Stream (1954) - Clip 3: Shell road maps and services Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007

Let’s Go (c1956) - Clip 3: A road from Wewak to Maprik Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 This clip shows the role of Army engineers and a unit of the Army Reserve (then called the Citizens Military Force) in the construction of a road f...

The Evolution of a Chocolate (1925) - Clip 3: ‘Served by discerning hostesses’ Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 Wedding cakes, chocolate-coated biscuits and puddings are also produced at the biscuit factory. Tin containers, printed gift assortment tins and pa...

Boots and Shoes (c1924) - Clip 2: ‘An Australian car is born’ Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 Once the sedan body has been completed, the final assembly takes place. Front and rear axels are fitted. New parts are constantly added as the car ...

A Day at an Engineering Works (c1926) - Clip 1: Rabbit census Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 CSIRO officers from the Wildlife Survey Section conduct a census on rabbit numbers in their field experiment enclosure c1955.

An Australian Invention: Falkiner Cane Harvester in Operation (c1925) - Clip 3: Computer coding Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 The Redfern Mail Exchange’s impressive new computerised mail sorting system is displayed. It illustrates data entry relating to each postal item en...

A Brief Survey of the Activities of the Brisbane City Mission (c1939) - Clip 2: The sole and heel Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 A man places a leather sheet under a pressing machine that cuts out segments for the soles of shoes. He illustrates this for the camera and holds u...

The Australian Steel Works (c1925) - Clip 2: Falkiner cane harvester in operation Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 The harvester is operated by a person seated on one side of the machine. The camera films, from various positions, the harvester as it is guided al...

Australia Post – Security (1989) - Clip 1: Postbusters Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 This clip shows a range of activities of Australia Post’s Security and Investigation Service.

Australia Post – Post Office Film (1942) - Clip 2: Removal of the columns Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 This unedited mute, black-and-white footage shows the columns of the Sydney GPO clock tower being removed in 1942.

Australia Post – Onward Speed (1970) - Clip 1: Addressing the letter Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 This segment illustrates the rights and wrongs of addressing a business letter.

Australia Post – News Release E-Post Electronic Mail (1985) - Clip 1: E-Post Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 This clip explains the procedure involved in the new E-Post service.

Your Daily and Weekly News: The Making of Two Great Papers (1928) - Clip 1: Welcome to the English cricket team Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 In this cinema newsreel Australian Cricket Captain, Bill Woodfull, welcomes the English cricket team to Australia for the Ashes in 1934.

The Kinema News Reel (1932) - Clip 1: Don Bradman in England Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 Don Bradman is interviewed in 1933 while on tour in England. It is an informal interview, with Bradman talking casually as he puts on his cricket j...

Don Bradman in England (1933) - Clip 3: Three ships Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 This clip consists of three segments of newsreel footage, shot at Cockatoo Island dockyard in Sydney Harbour, showing the launching of three ships ...

Australia Today – The ‘Pyjama Girl’ Murder Case (1939) - Clip 2: Police Boys’ Club Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 A young boy is taken to the Police Boys Club. Its aim, according to the narration, is to ‘keep boys off the streets’. It shows the boys working in ...

Ballarat Beauty Competition (1911) - Clip 2: New clues in the ‘Pyjama Girl’ mystery Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 The clip opens with the discovery of new evidence in 1939. Believing that the lake near Albury where the woman was found might hold the key to the ...

Australia Today – Man-Eater (1939) - Clip 3: The fatal hour Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 This clip shows a foreman and his worker ending work early for the day. They rush down to the pub ‘as fast as a radio announcer after English humou...

Australia Today – Customs officers fight against drugs (1938) - Clip 2: ‘The enemy within’ Channel: australian screen Length: 0 Date: November 25, 2007 This clip suggests that Nazi agents already reside in Australia and that government officials work day and night to stamp out the ‘enemy within’. T...

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