Titles tagged with ‘schools’
17 titles - sorted by title / by year
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Blue Water High – Winners and Losers (2005)
Six lucky Australian teenage surfers have fought hard to win a place in an intensive, 12-month residential surfing and schooling program at Solar Blue Surf Academy on Sydney’s ...
Chequerboard Revisited – Episode 6: That One Piece of Paper (2000)
The original Chequerboard program was made in black-and-white in 1972. Two boys were chosen from Liverpool Boys’ High School. Pat wants to leave school immediately at age 16 ...
Collingwood Community School (1975)
This ‘process video’ made by Tom Zubrycki aspires to provide an insight into the day-to-day running of the Collingwood Community School and some of the issues involved for ...
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 ...
Compass – Quakers: Seeking the Light Within (2003)
This is a simple but very informative program about Quakers in Australia today. The Quakers are a protestant group that has existed for over 350 years, also called ...
The Getting of Wisdom (1978)
In the early 1900s, Laura Tweedle Ramsbotham (Susannah Fowle) arrives at an exclusive Melbourne ladies’ college to jeers of ‘country bumpkin’ and ‘tweedle-dumb, ram’s bum’. Spirited and talented ...
Good Girls Do Swallow (2000)
Produced for the Lifestyle Channel, this documentary examines dieting women. Presented by Rachael Oakes-Ash, it takes a witty look at widespread dieting and its consequences. Personalities, people in ...
If Only – Series 1 Episode 3 (2003)
A series of ‘if only’ stories from a range of lives: a young single mother who found and then lost her birth mother, a woman who recalls the ...
Land Short of People (1947)
This film is from a monthly documentary series, This Modern Age, and surveys Australian industrial, social and geographical conditions in the 1940s. It emphasises the need for an ...
Looking For Alibrandi (1999)
Josephine Alibrandi (Pia Miranda) is cursed, like all the women in her Italo-Australian family. She’s in her final year at a posh Sydney school for Catholic girls, but ...
Message Stick – Child Artists of Carrolup (2003)
During the 1950s children from Carrolup mission in Western Australia, south of Perth, became artists under the instruction of Mr White, but after leaving the mission many of ...
Mid-East (1945)
Frank Hurley takes us on a journey to the Middle East and North Africa at the close of the Second World War. He describes aspects of traditional life, ...
Pathe Animated Gazette (Australasian Edition): The First Instalment of Australian Notes (c1910)
This Australasian edition of the Pathe Animated Gazette newsreel contains four news items, including the first instalment of Australian bank notes and the opening of the Pakington Street ...
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
On St Valentine’s Day 1900, three schoolgirls from an exclusive English-style boarding school go missing, along with a teacher, at Hanging Rock, in central Victoria. One of the ...
The Rising Generation (c1925)
This incomplete documentary promotes the public education system in South Australia from kindergarten through to university.
Short Cuts – Wheels on Fire (2001)
This is episode two and the students are thinking about their three minute films. Straight ‘A’ student Anna (Lucia Smyrk) is concerned that she will have to make ...
Wicked Science – Episode 1, The Gift (2003)
On their first day back at Sandy Bay High School, Toby (André de Vanny) and Elizabeth (Bridget Neval) are zapped by a strange ray and become instant scientific ...
