Titles tagged with ‘musicians’

10 titles - sorted by title / by year

ALP: It’s Time (1972)

This is the Australian Labor Party’s principal television advertisement for the 1972 federal election.

Cinesound Review: That Mersey Sound: Beatles at the Stadium (1964)

This is a Cinesound Review newsreel special on the Beatles’ tour to Australia and New Zealand in 1964. The first part of the newsreel shows the Beatles visiting ...

Dingo (1991)

On a hot day in Poona Flat, Western Australia, in 1969, legendary American jazz trumpeter Billy Cross (Miles Davis) plays an impromptu concert on the tarmac after his ...

Doesn’t Everybody Want a Golden Guitar (1995)

Filmed during the 1995 Tamworth Country Music Festival, the documentary is a tribute to Australian country music and the performers and fans that follow country music. The film ...

Gerakiteys: Scenes of Greece and Canberra (c1954)

In this 16mm silent colour home movie, members of the Gerakiteys family, residents of Canberra, arrive in their town of origin in Greece where they meet relatives, visit ...

The Gunston Tapes (1975)

From the unbelieving Sally Struthers to Sir John Gorton and Warren Beatty, Norman Gunston (Garry McDonald) became Australia’s star interviewer whose rich and famous subjects had no idea ...

Melbourne Chinese Orchestra Selections (1931)

This is from the Efftee Entertainers series of variety shorts and shows eight members of Melbourne’s Chinese Orchestra performing in a film studio.

Message Stick – Arafura Pearl (2003)

Cathleen Mills (nee McGuiness) is a respected Indigenous elder of Darwin, mother of eight, and mother to the singing group The Mills Sisters.

Sammy Butcher, Out of the Shadows (2004)

A documentary about musician Sammy Butcher who once played with the Warumpi Band and now invests his energy in young musicians in his community, Papunya, 250 kilometres west ...

Shine (1996)

David Helfgott (played as a child by Alex Rafalowicz) is a piano prodigy, growing up in Perth in the 1950s. His father Peter (Armin Mueller-Stahl) is a loving ...

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