All sponsored films
89 titles - sorted alphabetically / by year
Films produced by government agencies and private organisations to record their activities – for science, for posterity, to persuade or educate.
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The 8th Wonder of the World (1973)
A documentary looking at the newly completed Sydney Opera House, produced at the time of the official opening in 1973. The film looks at the ...
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Action Loop (1978)
Produced by the Melbourne Underground Rail Loop Authority, this documentary promotes the Melbourne Underground Rail Loop as a way of meeting Melbourne’s growing public transport ...
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 – 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 ...
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 – 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 – 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Australia’s Land of Tomorrow (1962)
Australian Inland Mission (AIM) superintendent Reverend Fred McKay conducts his patrol through the north of Australia. Along the way he witnesses a prospering region where ...
An Australian Invention: Falkiner Cane Harvester in Operation (c1925)
This promotional documentary for the mechanical Falkiner Cane Harvester incorporates animated sketches, intertitles and live-action examples to demonstrate how the harvester operates in the cane ...
The Australian Steel Works (c1920)
This promotional documentary presented by the Made in Australia Council looks at the workings of an Australian steel works factory in Newcastle.
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Beautiful Melbourne (1947)
This footage, put together by the Brotherhood of St Lawrence in 1947, illustrates the conditions of inner-city housing in Melbourne, Victoria. It shows inner suburban ...
Beyond the Furthest Fences (1947)
A silent documentary that shows scenes from a journey made by Australian Inland Mission patrolling minister, the Reverend KF ‘Skipper’ Partridge, through central Australia in ...
Birth of a Car (c1948)
In 1948, the year that the first Holden was released, Roland Litchfield produced Made to Order for General Motors Holden. This documentary on the first ...
The Bones of Building (1956)
This is an instructional documentary made by the Waterside Workers’ Federation Film Unit on safety in the construction industry. It dramatises the case of Bill ...
Boots and Shoes (c1924)
A promotional film presented by the Made in Australia Council that shows the manufacture and assembly of Australian-made footwear in a factory. It ends with ...
A Brief Survey of the Activities of the Brisbane City Mission (c1939)
This promotional documentary made by the Brisbane City Mission surveys the Mission’s activities and services during the late 1930s and the relief they provide for ...
Building a Motor Body (c1925)
This film shows the building of a car motor body at the Holden Motor Body Builders at Woodville, near Adelaide, in South Australia. Scenes depict ...
Building a Railway Engine (c1925)
This short film shows some of the work carried out at the Islington railway engine construction and repair plant of the South Australian Railways, just ...
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Carnival of Flowers, Toowoomba (1953)
Every spring, in the heart of Queensland’s Darling Downs, Toowoomba celebrates the Carnival of Flowers, complete with floral street parade, garden competitions and the crowning ...
The City of Geelong (1957)
This part travelogue, part promotional documentary, made by the Shell Film Unit Australia, illustrates how the city of Geelong has developed into a great industrial ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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A Day at an Engineering Works (c1926)
A silent documentary produced by the Made in Australia Council that details the work inside the Perry engineering works in Adelaide in order to promote ...
A Day in a Biscuit Factory (1932)
This sponsored film takes the viewer inside Swallow & Ariell’s Port Melbourne biscuit factory. It shows the quality testing of ingredients, biscuit, wafer and cake ...
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Eventide and Westbrook Farm Home: Brisbane City Mission (1950)
Operated through the Queensland State Government Department of Health and Home Affairs, the Eventide aged care facility is situated in the seaside suburb of Sandgate ...
The Evolution of a Chocolate (1925)
Presented by the Made in Australia Council, this documentary details the processes used in the making of confectionery at an Australian chocolate making factory.
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Factory to Farm: Making Agricultural Implements in Australia (c1925)
One of a series of promotional films made by the Melbourne-based Made in Australia Council, Factory to Farm supports the production of agricultural implements in ...
Federal Capital Commission: Anti-Fly Campaign (c1928)
In 1929 the Federal Capital Commission’s Health Department launched a campaign to reduce blowfly and housefly numbers in Canberra. This public relations film produced by ...
The Flying Doctor (1941)
Far from medical facilities on an outback station, a station worker is struck down with an attack of acute appendicitis. In a re-enactment of an ...
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Green Heritage (c1948)
This agricultural documentary sponsored by the Rural Bank of New South Wales presents itself as a story of ‘grassland improvement’. It surveys the various methods ...
The Growing Child (1938)
This government-produced public health film promotes the role of correct diet and nutrition in giving children the best start in life. It depicts dramatised scenarios ...
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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 ...
Home (c1936)
Dedicated to ‘home builders and home lovers everywhere’, and presented by the Rural Bank of New South Wales, Home looks at the changing landscape in ...
A Home of their Own (1949)
A promotional documentary made for the Housing Commission of Victoria that examines the importance of home and the ‘dignity of daily life’. It shows post-Second ...
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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.
Isle of Many Waters (1939)
Made for the Tasmanian Government Tourist Bureau, this travelogue filmed and narrated by Frank Hurley promotes Tasmania as an idyllic holiday destination.
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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 ...
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Let’s Go (c1956)
This promotional documentary made by the Shell Film Unit advertises the Shell Company of Australia’s extensive knowledge of motoring and Australian motorists’ needs. It focuses ...
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On Stream (1954)
This industrial documentary made between 1951 and 1954 by the Shell Film Unit Australia retraces the development, construction and opening of the Shell Oil Refinery ...
