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- Three stories, each presenting a young Australian at a moment of decision about their future.
- The film portraits Australian composer Richard Meale as he composes and conducts his sextet "Incredible Floridas". The work is an hommage to French poet Arthur Rimbaud. Weir's short documentary tells the story of both composer, work and poet.
- This is a condensed version of a series of films made in 1965 and 1967 of trips to the Western Desert region of Australia. The object of these trips was to film the daily life of the nomadic Aboriginal people living in the Gibson Desert of Central Australia. Although this land is one of the most arid regions of Australia, the people who lived there regarded it as rich in resources. The series was devised as an ethnographic record and was sponsored by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies for the then Commonwealth Film Unit. (From the National Film and Sound Archives of Australia)
- In 1940 and 1942 well-known Australian anthropologist C P Mountford made scientific expeditions into central Australia for the University of Adelaide. He travelled in desert country to the west and southwest of Alice Springs and photographed material which, in 1946 he edited into two films, Walkabout and Tjurunga. Mountford's films are an irreplaceable ethnographic record of the life of the Pitjantjatjara people of this area, before extended contact with European culture. In Walkabout, he narrates his experiences on a journey through central Australia with a group of Pitjantjatjara people. Walkabout records food gathering and preparation, hunting, fire making and family life as well as scenes near and on the sacred rock formation, Uluru. In 1974, at the request of the local Aboriginal community, certain sequences showing ceremony were removed from the film, and the two films were combined into one. Mountford's original narration has been retained.
- Where Dead Men Lie is a short drama based on a "script" written by Henry Lawson in 1896 in the earliest days of moving pictures. Anticipating the development of dramatic cinema, Lawson wrote his story, The Australian Cinematograph, with clear directions for the camera.
- Documentary film of the voyage of the "Kista Dan", a ship of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition, to Antarctica during 1954 and 1955, for the relief of personnel at the Mawson Base.
- The story of John Grierson, the British documentary movement, and Canada's National Film Board.
- Bored during the summer holidays and escaping the heat, a group of kids discover a limestone cave with a huge underground lake. Meanwhile, a detective investigates a stolen car and some sinister kangaroo shooters.
- A look into beekeeping.
- Australian short film of the Northern Territory Eisteddfodd held between July 4-13, 1964.
- Instructional film on motorcycle safety.
- An Australian short film documentary of the Flinders Ranges of South Australia.
- Portrait of life in the Australian Navy
- Industries in Northern Queensland.
- From the series of short documentaries "Adults Learning". This entry presents a group of people spending some time in the countryside of Australia dealing with agricultural matters and materials, learning about how to deal with the technology available to improve quality work on the field.
- An Australian short film documentary about a national campaign against tuberculosis.