Australian
Screen

an NFSA website

Chandon Pictures – Champion Charles (2007)

play
Email a link to this page
To:
CC:
Subject:
Body:
clip ‘The magic of the movies’

Original classification rating: M. This clip chosen to be PG

Clip description

New customer Helen (Penne Hackforth-Jones) has come to Chandon Pictures for a DVD slide show featuring her beloved dog Champion Charles Wink Monte Carlo. After Nick (Darren Gilshenan) notices her affection for the dog is so great that some of the photos have lipstick on them, Lucy (Rebecca Massey) sees an opportunity to up-sell. She calls in Tom Chandon (Rob Carlton) to help convince Helen to order a full video tribute.

Curator’s notes

by Kate Matthews

Tom Chandon’s offsiders share some of his comic qualities. Nick pushes Tom’s naivety up another notch. Lucy demonstrates naivety, insensitivity and a focus on money. The self-deluding grandeur of Tom’s overblown discussion about character archetypes taps into one of his key comic traits and a running joke in the series in which he applies highbrow film language to animal tributes, wedding videos and video wills.

Their enthusiastic, dog-obsessed client is played beautifully by Hackforth-Jones, whose presence on Australian television spans four decades. Her character appears in two further episodes of Chandon Pictures and is granted a small character arc, progressing beyond the tragic obsessive we see in this episode.

Thanks to the generosity of the rights holders, we are able to offer ‘The magic of the movies’ from the television program Chandon Pictures – Champion Charles as a high quality video download.

To play the downloadable video, you need QuickTime 7.0, VLC, or similar.

You must read and agree to the following terms and conditions before downloading the clip:

australianscreen is produced by the National Film and Sound Archive. By using the website you agree to comply with the terms and conditions described elsewhere on this site. The NFSA may amend the 'Conditions of Use’ from time to time without notice.

All materials on the site, including but not limited to text, video clips, audio clips, designs, logos, illustrations and still images, are protected by the Copyright Laws of Australia and international conventions.

When you access australianscreen you agree that:

  • You may retrieve materials for information only.
  • You may download materials for your personal use or for non-commercial educational purposes, but you must not publish them elsewhere or redistribute clips in any way.
  • You may embed the clip for non-commercial educational purposes including for use on a school intranet site or a school resource catalogue.
  • The National Film and Sound Archive’s permission must be sought to amend any information in the materials, unless otherwise stated in notices throughout the Site.

All other rights reserved.

ANY UNAUTHORISED USE OF MATERIAL ON THIS SITE MAY RESULT IN CIVIL AND CRIMINAL LIABILITY.

This clip is available in the following configurations:

File nameSizeQualitySuitability
chandonp1_pr.mp4 Large: 18.5MB High Optimised for full-screen display on a fast computer.
chandonp1_bb.mp4 Medium: 8.7MB Medium Can be displayed full screen. Also suitable for video iPods.

Right-click on the links above to download video files to your computer.

Thanks to the generosity of the rights holders, we are able to offer this clip in an embeddable format for personal or non-commercial educational use in full form on your own website or your own blog.

You must read and agree to the following terms and conditions before embedding the clip:

australianscreen is produced by the National Film and Sound Archive. By using the website you agree to comply with the terms and conditions described elsewhere on this site. The NFSA may amend the 'Conditions of Use’ from time to time without notice.

All materials on the site, including but not limited to text, video clips, audio clips, designs, logos, illustrations and still images, are protected by the Copyright Laws of Australia and international conventions.

When you access australianscreen you agree that:

  • You may retrieve materials for information only.
  • You may download materials for your personal use or for non-commercial educational purposes, but you must not publish them elsewhere or redistribute clips in any way.
  • You may embed the clip for non-commercial educational purposes including for use on a school intranet site or a school resource catalogue.
  • The National Film and Sound Archive’s permission must be sought to amend any information in the materials, unless otherwise stated in notices throughout the Site.

All other rights reserved.

ANY UNAUTHORISED USE OF MATERIAL ON THIS SITE MAY RESULT IN CIVIL AND CRIMINAL LIABILITY.

Copy and paste the following code into your own web page to embed this clip: