Titles tagged with ‘workers’
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Australasian Gazette – The Strike Spreads (c1917)
This segment from an Australasian Gazette newsreel shows waterside workers unloading perishables from a ship, possibly part of the New South Wales General Strike of 1917.
Australia (1934)
Semi-professional filmmaker Gordon Donkin, accompanied by his wife, travelled more than 25,000 kilometres over 18 months filming throughout Australia. The resulting documentary presents a comprehensive and realistic picture ...
Australian Cement in the Making (c1926)
This surviving 24 minutes from a silent documentary with intertitles shows the processes involved in the production of cement from raw limestone material to the final product at ...
Black Harvest (1992)
By late 1989, filmmakers Robin Anderson and Bob Connolly were ready to go back to the PNG highlands to make the third film in the Highlands Trilogy, Black ...
Buckley, Anthony: Buckley Family Collection: Tarn Shan Tin Mine, Thailand (c1928)
This silent 16mm home movie footage was shot by Horace Patrick Buckley in the late 1920s, while working in Thailand at the Tarn Shan Tin Mine. It includes ...
Duff, Paul: Home Movies: Papua New Guinea, 1949-early 50s (c1949)
This silent colour 8mm home movie footage was filmed by Paul Duff during his years working for the Australian Petroleum Company in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The footage ...
Jewel of the Pacific (1932)
Lord Howe Island is the subject of this short travelogue made by Frank Hurley during a camera tour of the island in 1932. It shows the island’s geographical ...
The Maryborough Railway Employees’ Picnic (1938)
This is actuality footage of the Maryborough Railway employees’ picnic held at Scarness, Queensland, on 20 March 1938. Children and families from Gympie, Bundaberg, Kingaroy, Childers and other ...
The Painters and Dockers Strike (1976)
A video made by filmmakers Tom Zubrycki and Russ Hermann, in collaboration with members of the Federated Ship Painters And Dockers Union of Australia, covering the strike over ...
Prices and the People (1948)
This dramatised documentary made by the Realist Film Unit supports a ‘yes’ vote in the 1948 federal referendum on the continuation of price control.
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 – 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 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 – 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.
Timber (1947)
This documentary about the timber industry in Victoria features several ways of hauling logs from the forest – by bullock teams, with wire pulleys, by tractor and by ...
With Gentle Majesty (1962)
A black-and-white documentary about the workhorse, made at a moment in history when the horse is about to disappear from Australia’s city streets forever. In 1962, the ice ...
