TAGGED: 1900s
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This footage opens with scenes of a family  picnic at Mt Wellington, Hobart, in 1909, and then documents  family  events such as Christmas (1922), childrens' birthday parties, toy ca

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This clip is from Bicentennial Minutes, a series of 60-second snapshots of Australian history produced in 1988 to mark 200 years since the arrival of the First Fleet of British convict shi

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Sir Ernest Shackleton describes the loss of Socks the pony into the crevasse, and the accident which saved Frank Wild’s life – the broken ‘swingletree’ connecting horse and sledge.

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Dr Plonk (Nigel Lunghi) is wanted for terrorism in 2007. Spotted by two police officers (Jo-Ann Lancaster, Simon Yates), he leads them on a chase through the city.

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Dr Plonk (Nigel Lunghi) is accidentally transported 10,000 years into the past and captured by spear-wielding natives.

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Dr Plonk (Nigel Lunghi) and his mute assistant, Paulus (Paul Blackwell), are working in Plonk’s laboratory. Mrs Plonk (Magda Szubanski) slips on a banana skin discarded by Paulus.

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  A group of children, filmed in 1916, re-enacting trench warfare. As you might expect, the only girl depicted is cast as a nurse.

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This is the earliest surviving feature footage of the work of pioneering filmmakers Raymond Longford and Lottie Lyell.  The first half of the film survives with the English setting of the stor

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Could this glass slide image of a penitent puss be the precursor to today's pet shaming social media trend?