Video

A collection of videos from our archives.

Passenger inspecting aircraft window.

A Clear View (2001)

The maze of tiny cracks that develops in plane windows is irritating for passengers and expensive to fix. Now there's […]

Parkes Radio Telescope at sunset.

A Tour of the Parkes Radio Telescope (1979)

Dr Jon Ables, an astronomer with the CSIRO Division of Radiophysics, takes us on a tour of the 64 metre radio telescope near Parkes, New South Wales.

Plumes of smoke leaving chimneys at industrial site on banks of Yarra River.

CSIRO Medals 1992 – Research achievement – Air Pollution Meteorology Team

Peter Manins and the Air Pollution Meteorology Team (CSIRO Atmospheric Research). For air quality research and consulting to industry and […]

Light aircraft conducting controlled burning.

Flight Line One: Controlled Burning from Aircraft (1971)

Widespread controlled burning of Australian forests has often been proposed as a fire protection measure.

The underbelly of a light aircraft flying overhead.

Rainmaking (1968)

This study is the story of rainmaking in Australia - from the first tentative experiments with dry ice to the present, large-scale operations using silver iodide as the seeding agent.

Ezio Rizzardo and colleague in laboratory.

CSIRO Medals 2003 – Research achievement – Engineered polymers team

Ezio Rizzardo and the Engineered Polymers Team (CSIRO Molecular Science). For the invention and development of a new polymerisation method […]

Radio telescope antennae.

Division of radiophysics (1949)

A survey of research work at CSIRO's Division of Radiophysics.

Cotton Seed Distributors logo

Cotton Seed Distributors 50 years – The partnership

In 2017 Cotton Seed Distributors (CSD), the only company that supplies cotton seed to Australian cotton growers, celebrated their 50th anniversary. CSD put together this video to highlight the important partnership with CSIRO to develop and market cotton that benefits growers' bottom line and is good for the environment and for rural communities.

QEM*SEM computer screen.

QEM*SEM (1982)

The recovery of minerals from ores is an important industry and much depends on the correct assessment of the valuable minerals in the ore and on the efficiency of the processing. Traditional assaying methods don't give the metallurgist all the information he really needs.