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- Cameraman Damien Parer has just returned from the front in New Guinea, where he's documented Australian troops in action. He explains this to us in a prolog. We then see air drops of supplies, wounded men being carried on stretchers by native porters, and men leaving camp to go to the front. There's a tiny bit of possibly staged combat footage. A narrator explains that the Japanese soldiers are expert at disguise, and how important support from the home front is.
- Dramatization of Australian political life between 1945 and 1954.
- A father turns to boxing to raise money to pay for his daughter's operation.
- The story of local man Dad Rudd (played by Bert Bailey) who see the need to increase the capacity of the dam, but faces opposition.
- Hubert Blaydon (Cecil Kellaway),a simple Australian farmer inherits a castle and a title in England, and moves his family from the farm to the castle. He also inherits a very stuffy, prim-and-proper butler who constantly reprimands Blaydon whenever he disobeys aristocratic protocol...which he often does.
- Adelaide's Moving Memories is a rare collection of moving images dating from 1908 to the late 1950s showing Adelaide as it was, through newsreels, documentaries and home movies. These images recapture the lifestyles, history, development and growth of the city and its industries, and pays homage to Colonel William Light's vision and foresight for an elegant city surrounded by hills and parklands.
- People talk about their efforts to contribute to the war efforts.
- A plot is planned to kill favored Stormalong before the Melbourne Cup.
- After serving 20 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit, a man returns home to take revenge on a local pastor who knew he was innocent but did nothing to clear his name. He discovers that things aren't exactly what they seem.
- A tale of the ups and downs of the Rudd family who live on a ranch in Southwest Queensland.
- A disaster-prone zoo attendant discovers a substance that accelerates motion, enabling his greyhound to run faster.
- A film, based on a Cosmopolitan Magazine story by Dorothy Cotterell, is basically a story dealing with civilization's effect and man's cruelty on the Australian outback. It begins with footage of wild animals in their own habitat, and then cuts to episodes of circus life, with Chute, the boxing kangaroo being mistreated by its trainer. Chute's original owner comes to his rescue.
- A concert pianist, as concert panists are wont to do, goes pearl diving in the South Seas to find a giant pearl for his girlfriend. He does, and that's when all the trouble begins.
- Comic glimpse of a novice pleasure boat sailor in Australia.
- Mr. Chedworth is an ordinary clerk dominated by his job and wife. One day, he gains more autonomy and confidence when he finds a bag of money, but soon gets wrapped up in a web of misadventure as a result.
- A story of the romance of the daughter, Joan Burbridge (Ann Richards) of a large Australian timber-holding owner, Stephen Burbridge (Harvey Adams, with his political adversary Jim Thornton ('Frank Leighton (1)'(qv.)An outdoor film of the grandeur of the forests and the roguery of the timber kings.
- A story of rival sheep stations and of the strong-willed squatter's daughter who wants to unite them.
- 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 architecture, art and functions of the building with a specially composed orchestral score.
- This partially lost film apparently showcased a range of acts in a variety follies, including an all-female string sextet in French Renaissance attire, a whirlwind trip through musical history, and a visit to beautiful Sidney, Australia.
- The film starts off with reenactments of early Australian history. Scenes are shown of present-day Sydney. Most of the running time consists of footage of various industries in New South Wales.
- In a dry unforgiving part of Australia, a man and his wife have set up home and live stock to make their living. Just when it seemed the drought and lack of finances were getting to be too much, things change: BP is looking for a suitable area to attempt the world land speed record.
- During the Cold War era of the early 1960s in Australia, the activities of Soviet Union Russian diplomat and spy Ivan Skripov whilst liaising with "Sylvia" who was unknown to him to be working for ASIO - the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, who produced this film in collaboration with Cinesound Productions.
- Kangaroos, koala bears and a variety of exotic birds (including the long-beaked Ibis) inhabit the Australian bushland in this short from Academy Award-winning documentarian Ken G. Hall.
- A National Film and Sound Archive compilation of footage from newsreels and advertisements from the 1930s to the 1960s, showing some of the changes in lifestyle and attitudes in Australian society from the 1930s to the 1960s.