Titles sourced from: National Archives of Australia

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Australia Post – 200 Years (1988)

This is a short programme produced to mark Australia Post’s commemoration of the 26 January 1988 Australian Bicentennial.

Australia Post – Animation (c1988)

This is a set of five Australia Post animated television advertisements, produced between October 1988 and June 1989.

Australia Post – Australia Post Inc (1990)

This in-house program, directed at controlling postal managers (CPMs) and postal managers (PMs), discussed what the Australian Postal Corporation Act (the APC Act) meant for individual post offices.

Australia Post – Changing Times (1975)

This is an Australia Post black-and-white television advertisement informing the public of the impending changes to the then Postmaster-General’s Department.

Australia Post – Express Courier (1988)

Twin Australia Post television advertisements promoting the Express Courier service.

Australia Post – Intelpost (1987)

This is an Australia Post television advertisement promoting Intelpost.

Australia Post – Joint Stamp Issue (1988)

This program records Australia Post’s release of a special joint Australian and United States bicentennial stamp and a commemorative bicentenary book of stamps.

Australia Post – Letter Writing Venice (1986)

This is an Australia Post television advertisement promoting international postage.

Australia Post – Lettergram (1988)

This is a set of three Australia Post television commercials (TVCs) promoting the Lettergram service.

Australia Post – Meeting the Challenge (1988)

This in-house program was produced for Australia Post management and employees to inform them of what the Australian Postal Corporation Act (the APC Act) will mean for the ...

Australia Post – News Release E-Post Electronic Mail (1985)

This 1985 video press release explains E-Post, a new service offered by Australia Post.

Australia Post – Olympic Post Script (1956)

This black-and-white film was produced to celebrate the communications achievements of the PMG (Postmaster-General’s Department) during the summer Olympic Games, held in Melbourne from 22 November to 8 ...

Australia Post – Onward Speed (1970)

Produced by The Film House for the Australian Post Office, this is an amusing instructional film on maximising the effectiveness of business mail procedures.

Australia Post – Post Office Film (1942)

This is an unedited mute, black-and-white film record of the dismantling of the Sydney General Post Office (GPO) clock tower, as well as street scenes near and around ...

Australia Post – Post Office Speeds the Mail (1970)

This is a short program produced by Bennett Honda for the Australian Post Office to introduce and promote the new use of motorcycles by postal delivery officers.

Australia Post – Post Office Spruce Up (1987)

This program, produced for in-house use aimed at individual post office managers, details the Australia Post ‘Spruce Up’ campaign.

Australia Post – Postcode Grandma (1988)

This is an Australia Post television advertisement promoting the essential inclusion of correct postcodes when addressing letters, in order to guarantee delivery.

Australia Post – Postpak Rap (1988)

This is an Australia Post television advertisement promoting the use of its own product, the Postpak.

Australia Post – Recruitment (1989)

This is a collection of short videos produced by Australia Post, each entitled ‘Australia Post Career Employment’. The collection profiles eight different career opportunities for individuals considering working ...

Australia Post – Royal Tour (1954)

This program was produced by the Public Relations Division of the Postmaster-General’s Department (PMG) to celebrate its role in the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth II’s visit to Australia. ...

Australia Post – Security (1989)

This program, produced for in-house training use, outlines the operations of Australia Post’s Security and Investigation Service and alerts personnel to the range of potential mail crime.

Australia Post – Standard Letters (1974)

This is an Australia Post television advertisement informing the public of the new system of paying postage on domestic mail items, according to their standard or non-standard size.

Australia Post – The Last of the TPOs (1985)

This program was produced to mark the closure of the last remaining TPO (Travelling Post Office) service in Australia.

Australia Post – This is the Mail (1966)

This is a black-and-white film, showcasing what was then the newly opened Redfern Mail Exchange. It looks at Redfern’s centralised system of mail collection and distribution. While detailing ...

Australia Post – We Deliver 1 (1988)

These are two of a series of television commercials (TVCs) promoting Australia Post’s new corporate identity as well as its products and services, and featuring the ‘We Keep ...

Australia Post – We Deliver 2 (1988)

These are three of a series of television commercials promoting Australia Post’s new corporate identity as well as its products and services, and featuring the ‘We Keep Australia ...

Australia Post – We Deliver 3 (1988)

These are three of a series of television commercials promoting Australia Post’s new corporate identity as well as its products and services, and featuring the ‘We Keep Australia ...

Australian Visit (1967)

This ABC News production covers the five-day visit of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam, Air Vice-Marshall Nguyen Cao Ky, and his wife, to Australia in ...

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Cockatoo Island: HMAS Success Launching (1984)

HMAS Success is launched from Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour, on 3 March 1984.

Cockatoo Island: Newsreel Film of Dockyard Activities (c1939)

This film is a compilation of 11 segments showing activities at Cockatoo Island dockyard, in Sydney Harbour, during the years 1936 to 1942.

Commonwealth Bank – Plan for the Future (c1950)

Plan for the Future is a black-and-white cinema advertisement, produced by David Koffel Productions for the Commonwealth Savings Bank. It targets young families, drawing an analogy between the ...

Commonwealth Bank – The School Bank (1951)

Produced for the Commonwealth Savings Bank by the Australian National Film Board, the film, aimed at primary school children, explains the place of the School Banking program in ...

Commonwealth Bank – Willie Wombat: Waste Not Want Not (c1939)

In this Eric Porter animation of ‘the grasshopper and the ant’ fable, Willie Wombat lazes and plays all summer. He laughs at his animal mates devoting time to ...

CSIRO – Rabbits in Confined Populations Management Techniques (c1955)

A 16mm training film, produced c1955 by the CSIRO Film Unit for the Wildlife Survey Section, detailing procedures in field experimentation in rabbit population control.

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Holt – Film Re-enactment of the Circumstances Surrounding the Disappearance of the PM (1967)

This is unedited silent black-and-white footage, shot by the Victorian Police, re-enacting the movements of those who witnessed the disappearance of Prime Minister Harold Edward Holt on 17 ...

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Ikara the Weapon Thrower (1963)

This film details the Australian military trials of the Ikara missile, a ship-launched anti submarine missile.

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Jungle Road (c1963)

This film looks at the roles of Australian military personnel in Papua New Guinea – at the time known the Territory of Papua and New Guinea – in ...

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Metric Motoring (1974)

This title consists of two 60-second television advertisements explaining to motorists the national changeover from imperial to metric measurement.

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Operation Blowdown (1963)

Produced by the Department of Supply Film Unit at Movietone, this is the official film of Operation Blowdown, the classified project that aimed to replicate the effects of ...

Operation Buffalo – Colour Record (1956)

Operation Buffalo was the testing of four nuclear fission bombs at Maralinga in South Australia on 27 September 1956. This film is the official recording of the operation. ...

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Snowy Hydro – Conquest of the Rivers (1957)

Produced in 1957 by the SMHEA photographic unit (Harry Malcolm et al.), the film promotes the Snowy Mountains Scheme as a source of employment for local Australian recruits.

Snowy Hydro – Conservation in the Snowy Mountains (1955)

Produced in 1955 by the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electricity Authority (SMHEA) photographic unit (Harry Malcolm et al.), the film traces the history of soil erosion in the Snowy ...

Snowy Hydro – Gardens of the Snowy Mountains (1967)

Produced around 1967 by the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority (SMHEA) photographic unit (Harry Malcolm et al.), the film promotes the establishment and maintenance of gardens, for the ...

Snowy Hydro – Operation Adaminaby (1958)

Produced in 1958 by the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electricity Authority (SMHEA) photographic unit (Harry Malcolm et al.), the film tells the story of moving the old town of ...

Snowy Hydro – Safety on the Snowy Scheme (1964)

Produced in 1964 by the SMHEA photographic unit (Harry Malcolm et al. with narration by James Dibble), it’s one of the many films made for the Snowy Mountains ...

Snowy Hydro – Snowy 69 (1969)

In 1969 the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electricity Authority (SMHEA) was entering the final stages of its twenty five year construction period. Produced by the Scheme’s own photographic unit ...

Snowy Hydro – Sound and Safe (1963)

Produced in 1963 by the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electricity Authority (SMHEA) photographic unit (Harry Malcolm et al.), the film lays out safety procedures for hard rock tunnelling.

Snowy Hydro – The Best of the Years (1974)

A documentary record of the construction and completion of the Snowy Mountains Scheme from 1949 to 1974. The film examines the multicultural work force and its achievement in ...

Snowy Hydro – The Construction of Geehi Dam (1967)

Produced in 1967 by the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority (SMHEA) photographic unit (Harry Malcolm et al. with narration by James Dibble), the film is a fairly technical ...

Snowy Hydro – The Jindabyne Story (c1965)

Produced in 1964–5 by the SMHEA photographic unit (Harry Malcolm et al.), the film tells the story of the moving of the town of Jindabyne to make way ...

Snowy Hydro – The Snowy Flows Inland (1954)

Produced in 1954 by the Australian National Film Board, the film presents the aims and objectives of the Snowy Mountains Scheme and looks at the preliminary phase operations.

Snowy Hydro – The Snowy Mountains Scheme (1952)

Completed somewhere around 1952, the film celebrates the achievements of the Snowy Mountains Scheme, now three years into its endeavour.

Snowy Hydro – The Snowy–Murray Development (1969)

Produced in 1969 by the SMHEA photographic unit (Harry Malcolm et al. with narration by James Dibble), the film marks the completion of the Snowy-Murray Development – the ...

Snowy Hydro – Where Giants Meet (1948)

Produced in 1948 by Cambridge Film Productions for Industrial Sales and Service (ISAS) and the SMHEA, the film is both a domestic recruitment promotion for the Snowy Mountains ...

Snowy Hydro – Where Men and Mountains Meet (1963)

Produced in 1963 by the SMHEA photographic unit (Harry Malcolm et al.), the film looks at the spectrum of male work involved in the Snowy Mountains Scheme.

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Terrain in South East Asia (1964)

This is an army training film containing a detailed study of the terrain of Thailand and Malaysia (then called Malaya).

Whitlam – Visit to the Philippines (1974)

From 28 January to 13 February 1974, the then prime minister Gough Whitlam undertook a six-nation tour of South-East Asia. This current affairs program details the last leg ...