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Costs and profits – how price grows (1948)
With the aid of cartoons, an argument is made which illustrates the chain of supply for manufacture and the associated costs. Manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer each take their own profits before passing on the inflated costs to the consumer. Figures ... [read more]
‘I’d back her next season’ (1949)
Sam Curzon (Charles Tingwell) repays the money he stole from father WJ (Charles Randall) and mother Laura (Muriel Steinbeck). Surrounded by her family, June (Nonnie Peifer) attempts to walk for the first time since her accident. Hugh Duncan (James Workman) ... [read more]
Australia Post – Letter Writing Venice (1986)
This is an Australia Post television advertisement promoting international postage. [read more]
On the go (1977)
Fraser visits Wollongong where he has lunch with steel workers. Things don’t go quite to plan as the lunch is overwhelmed by media and company executives. He meets local supporters and is then interviewed at the local radio station. Asked ... [read more]
Sandra visits her son in jail (1998)
In one of the film’s flashes forward, Sandra Sprague (Lynette Curran) visits her son Brett (David Wenham) in his prison cell. He is upset when she comes alone. He had asked her to bring Michelle, his girlfriend, but she wants ... [read more]
Dreamtime, Machinetime (1987)
An episodic documentary featuring distinguished Indigenous artists specialising in literary and visual art forms. [read more]
Dead Heart (1996)
When a young aboriginal man is found hanging in a police cell, Senior Constable Ray Larkin (Bryan Brown) allows his own deputy (Lafe Charlton) to be speared as payback. The tiny settlement of Wala Wala is soon in uproar again ... [read more]
Mister Prime Minister – Joseph Aloysius Lyons (c1966)
Joseph Aloysius Lyons served as Prime Minister of Australia from 1932 to 1939. Academics, Lyons’s widow Dame Enid Lyons and political figures, including former prime minister Sir Robert Menzies, discuss Lyons’s life and times. [read more]
Lantana (2001)
In the midst of a midlife crisis, detective Leon Zat (Anthony LaPaglia) investigates the disappearance of a prominent psychiatrist, Dr Valerie Somers (Barbara Hershey). Zat suspects her husband John Knox (Geoffrey Rush) of having had a homosexual affair with Patrick ... [read more]
Mutt (2008)
Mac, a hardened outback farmer, his mellow cow Matilda and his playful dog Mutt are in conflict, yet are dependent on each other for their survival. [read more]
Man of Flowers (1983)
Charles Bremer (Norman Kaye), a retired, wealthy aesthete, regularly hires Lisa (Alyson Best), a young female artist’s model, to strip for him to the soundtrack of a Donizetti aria. Charles writes letters to his dead mother, plays church organ, loves ... [read more]
Cop Shop – Episode 109 (1978)
The Riverside police investigate a payroll robbery at a mill owned by Ralph Kingston (Roger Newcombe). They quickly set their sights on Kingston’s employee Rod Conway (Stephen Bisley), a mechanic with a criminal record, without realising that a romantic drama ... [read more]
‘God, with a better suit’ (2001)
Diane Davis (Mandy McElhinney) explains to legal aid solicitor Stephen (Mitchell Butel) that she and her husband Wayne (Steve Rodgers) have been turned down by 14 legal firms, all of whom have claimed connections to Centabank. Stephen explains their options ... [read more]
Gettin’ Square (2003)
After eight years in jail for a murder he didn’t commit, Barry Wirth (Sam Worthington) gets paroled because of the death of his mother. He returns to the Gold Coast determined to stay out of trouble, but trouble keeps finding ... [read more]
Winter of Our Dreams (1981)
After the body of a young heroin addict is found in Sydney Harbour, Rob (Bryan Brown) tries to find out why she committed suicide. He and the dead girl Lisa (Margie McCrae) were lovers at university, united by their political ... [read more]
Viewpoint (1965)
A woman (June Salter) who lost her husband in the Second World War worries that she will lose her son in Vietnam, after the introduction of conscription. [read more]
Difficult Pleasure: A Portrait of Brett Whiteley (1989)
A biographical documentary that follows Australian artist Brett Whiteley as he travels from his studio in Sydney to London. Whiteley started painting in the 1960s in London and Paris before returning to Sydney. He has painted landscapes, portraits, tributes to ... [read more]
One Shoe Short (2007)
In a town camp in Alice Springs, it’s school time and Rodney (Rodney Malbunka) can’t find shoes to wear. His school won’t allow him in class barefoot so his mate Jesse (Jesse McCormack) tries to help him out by reorganising ... [read more]
Kingswood Country – There’s No Place Like Rome (1980)
When Thelma Bullpitt (Judi Farr) wins a trip for two to Rome, husband Ted (Ross Higgins) refuses to leave Australia. Thelma takes son-in-law Bruno Bertolucci’s (Lex Marinos) mother along instead. While their wives are away, Bruno’s father Enzo Bertolucci (Joseph ... [read more]
Patineur Grotesque (1896)
This short piece of actuality footage shows a man in costume on rollerskates performing a comic act for a gathering crowd. [read more]
