Centuries of Chatterboxes
Featuring exciting film and sound clips, discover the different ways Australians communicate for entertainment and education. Investigate how moving image and recorded sound story telling has changed; interact with a range of vintage communication objects; and create a thaumatrope to keep!
Program information
| Year Levels | Foundation to Year 3 |
| Duration | 75-minute presentation and thaumatrope creation |
| Availability | Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm |
| Minimum Numbers | 5 students |
| Maximum Numbers | 60 per group |
| Cost | $5.50 per student, teachers and carers free of charge |
| Curriculum Links | Download Australian Curriculum links |
Program outcomes
- Explore the evolution of communication technologies in the film and sound field.
- Investigate the different ways film and sound communicates to tell stories.
- Make an early animation device.
- Discover the importance and roles of the National Film and Sound Archive as a memory institution.
Additional resources
australianscreen
The clips in this collection are accompanied by teachers’ notes created by specialist curriculum writers.
School Screen
Provides free screenings of Australian feature films, shorts and documentaries for school students and their teachers in local cinemas around Australia.
Melbourne Cup
This film documenting the 1896 Melbourne Cup is one of Australia’s oldest surviving films. A horse gallops into the foreground and blocks our view until the film’s producer gives the horse a pat on its rump.
Family Antics
This is very strange but oddly compelling: a father, his son, and three fox terriers do acrobatics and balancing acts for the camera.
Babe
Unaware that 'Christmas means carnage’ for farm pigs, Babe sings a happy Christmas carol. Farmer Hoggett decides against putting him on the menu for Christmas lunch.
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