Family history and life story videos

Theo Clark Media produces family history videos to record the extraordinary things that ordinary people do. Transfer your old family movies and photographs to film and tell the story of your life on video to be preserved for future generations. To have your family history recorded on video, contact us today. 
Theo Clark describes himself as a 'video story teller', someone who takes memories, memorabilia, and the interwoven tales and pulls them together in his digital workshop - Geoff Mann, ABC Radio (2016).
​The whole family spanning 4 generations will have an enduring memory of my mother, Elvira , due mainly to the exceptional quality of Theo’s work in interviewing Elvira and capturing her life on video utilising my late father Bill’s home movie collection spanning over 60 years... even I learnt new things I wasn’t aware of - Charles Cuschieri.

Leaving for War remembered by Fred Westphal

Sgt Fred Westphal, of 6th Division AIF, fought in the Middle East and Kokoda, while his brother Bob flew as a Pathfinder with the RAF over Europe. Here Fred tells the lively and moving story of leaving for the War, and of the fate of some of those who steamed out from Sydney Harbour with him that day in 1941. "Rules are for the guidance of wise men, and obedience of fools... the Army teaches you that", Fred explains as he and his brother set off on the Great Adventure. This excerpt is from Part One of Fred Westphal's War Story, recorded by Theo Clark Media in 2016.

 Elvira Cuschieri: Coming to Australia (2017)

Elvira Cuschieri migrated from Egypt to Australia with her husband Bill and son Charles in the 1950s. A true Mediterranean woman, she was Italian-Greek by heritage and married a Maltese-Egyptian in the last days of the British Empire in Egypt. Illustrated with her husband's home movie footage of old Egypt and the voyage to Sydney on the SS Himalaya, Elvira remembers an idyllic youth in cosmopolitan Port Said, and the shock of finding nothing but Coon Cheese and plain bread in the shops after sailing into a glorious Sydney Harbour in the 1950s. Recorded for a family history video by Theo Clark Media in 2017.

John Thornett OBE

A tribute to John Thornett and the "Thornett Era" of Australian rugby (1962-1967), when the Wallabies "arrived" as a force in the global game. This is an extended version of the tribute video by Theo Clark Media produced for Thornett's memorial service at the SCG in January, 2019. This video was created mainly from excerpts from "Sometimes the Best Ever: The Story of the 1966/7 Wallabies," a 2017 documentary written by Theo Clark and narrated by Gordon Bray to mark the 50th anniversary of the tour.

Alan Cardy

Alan Cardy was a champion sprinter and Drummoyne Rugby star who became Wallaby No. #496, and also played Rugby League with The Roosters in the 1960s. In this interview from 2017, Cardy recalls the joy he felt at representing Australia, and has the last word on some of the highs and lows of his career. I originally recorded this interview for "Sometimes the Best Ever: The Story of the 1966/7 Wallabies", but Alan later asked if I could make a family history version for him covering his life and rugby career.

Dr Richard Tooth OAM

Dick Tooth, the humble all round sportsman who captained the Wallabies in the 1950s and went on to become a pioneering orthopaedic surgeon has passed away, aged 90. As tribute to Dr Tooth, I published this short video focusing on his rugby story. It's taken from the film I made for the Sydney University Football Club's Wallaby Legends Lunch in 2019, along with some material that didn’t make the cut for that day, but which I included in an extended version for the Tooth family. 

​In the video, Jim Boyce credits Dick Tooth’s coaching at SUFC with contributing a great deal to the winning edge of the Thornett Era Wallabies - giving them structure in the lineout and a powerful spirit of confidence - a belief that they could win. Given many say it was the Thornett Wallabies who really put Australia on the rugby map, that is a great accolade.

Read more: SMH Obituary by Roy Masters.