Popular Culture: Popular Culture

Contains a series of video clips from the ABC archives as well as a excellent unit on "Popular Culture Post War".

• ANIMATION IN AUSTRALIA

  From the Australian Government. Everything you wanted to know about animation in Australia. Includes the history from 1910, feature, digital & TV animation (with clips) and useful links to animators and production companies.
• From Reel to Unreal: Future opportunities for Australia's film, animation, special effects and electronic games industries.

  Download chapters or the whole of this parliamentary inquiry into the future opportunities for Australia's film, animation, special effects and electronic games industries.
• Chronological list of animations made in Australia

  This list covers cinema advertising and political cartoons as well as some feature animated films.

Search the complete digitised cover to cover Women's Weekly magazines from 1933 to 1982.

Include the year in your search '1965' or '1961' etc. 

Create a timeline and view other people's timelines.

Find quality web sites here. Check out the section on Australian History, then click on your chosen decade.

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Read these books, each focusing on a different decade, its history and culture. Find them at 994.065 BER.

Read these books about the events and culture of each decade. Find them at 909.82.

• Film in Australia

  Start here - An Australian Government website with a huge amount of information and links.
• WATCH FILMS : Australian Screen Organisation

  A huge A-Z list of Australian feature films - Click on a film to view a clip and read the notes.
• The Australian Cinema - an overview

  From the Bureau of Statistics, with information from Film Australia, The history of film in Australia. Describes the early days, film as an ambassador - how we are perceived through our films by the world and government assistance for the industry and film makers.
• The first wave of Australian feature film production FROM EARLY PROMISE TO FADING HOPES

  From the Australian Film Commission archives, this downloadable PDF on the history of feature film in Australia has a wonderful timeline at the end.
• Film Australia chronology

  The National film and sound archive holds more than 9000 works. Explore the links and view old footage.

"We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel

The lyrics include brief, rapid-fire allusions to more than 100 headline events between January 1949 (Joel was born on May 9 of that year) and 1989, when the song was released on his album Storm Front. (Source : Wikipedia)

Find webpages, images and videos from the past here. 

Click on the image to go to an interactive timeline and watch the episodes.