Titles tagged with ‘photography’
14 titles - sorted by title / by year
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Elapsed Time Test Studies: Australian Wildflowers, Tahiti, Travel Scenes (c1955)
In a greenhouse full of flowering plants, amateur filmmaker FE Winton uses early methods of time lapse photography to capture the slow bloom of brightly coloured flora.
Endurance (1933)
The documentary footage taken by Frank Hurley during the Antarctic expedition led by Ernest Shackleton on a ship called Endurance in 1914–16 is bookended with a simple plot ...
Fashionista – Nicolas Jurnjack (2004)
Nicholas Jurnjack is a hair stylist who insists that fashion photography is all about lighting. He hails from Marseilles and was offered a choice of a plumbing or ...
Frank Hurley: The Man Who Made History (2004)
This documentary is a biography of photographer Frank Hurley. Hurley went to Antarctica several times to record expeditions with his still and movie cameras. He photographed the First ...
Girl in a Mirror: A Portrait of Carol Jerrems (2005)
The documentary is a tribute to photographer Carol Jerrems (1949–1980). Jerrems photographed Melbourne’s sub-culture in the 1970s. The biography is told through the short films she made, her ...
Look Both Ways (2005)
On the way home from her father’s funeral, Meryl (Justine Clarke), a young artist, sees a man killed by a passing train. Nick, a newspaper photographer (William McInnes) ...
Maidens (1978)
Maidens is a biographical chronicle. It uses personal archives, made up of still and moving image, from both domestic and vocational sources, lyrical narration and emotive music to ...
Proof (1991)
Martin (Hugo Weaving) is a 32-year-old blind photographer. He lives alone and trusts no-one, especially not his housekeeper Celia (Geneviève Picot), who loves him in secret. Their antagonistic ...
Round About Townsville (1926)
Townsville, Magnetic Island and the Hinchinbrook Channels are the subject of this scenic tour through northern Queensland’s attractive tourist destinations. Filled with steady pans and well framed static ...
Seven Deadly Sins - Envy (1992)
This one-hour drama is the sad and sordid story of two people eaten up with envy for what they can’t possess. The program is book-ended with iconic shots ...
Snapshot (1978)
The remains of a body are removed from a fire at a photographer’s studio. In flashback, successful model Madeleine (Chantal Contouri) introduces her friend Angela (Sigrid Thornton) to ...
Some of Many: Germans in Australia (1983)
A documentary that traces the changing fortunes of German immigrants to Australia from the first fleet to the late 1980s. Australian-based German filmmaker Juergen Corleis interviews migrants in ...
Treasures of Katoomba (1936)
A treasure hunt awarding £500 at Katoomba provides the narrative bookend for this short dramatised film promoting tourism in the Blue Mountains region. Made by Frank Hurley for ...
Your Daily and Weekly News: The Making of Two Great Papers (1928)
This fragment from a newsreel produced by Australasian Films shows the production processes behind Melbourne’s Argus metropolitan newspaper. It shows the sheets of paper which are delivered in ...
