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The Movie Show – Episode 13 (2004)
Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton review the latest cinema releases interspersed with clips from the shows. This week, they review The Cooler with William H Macey and Alec Baldwin, the American thriller Twisted, and a new Australian road movie, Thunderstruck, ... [read more]
A Morning at the World’s Greatest Agricultural Show (c1926)
This fragment is from a documentary about the Royal Agricultural Show held at the Sydney Showground in approximately 1926. Horses and cattle are prepared for display prior to the agricultural events. We see children grooming, saddling and riding ponies in ... [read more]
Hula show, Hawaii (1977)
This performance by Hawaiian dancers is part of a hula show staged for tourists and sponsored by Kodak. This clip shows the last half of the performance and the applauding crowd at the end. [read more]
Making a warehouse in the salt mines (1943)
This clip from a colour home movie filmed by Ernest Gourlay in approximately 1951 shows men constructing a hanger or warehouse with a vaulted roof. It shows men bolting together and erecting the trusses. This is followed by panning shots ... [read more]
Queen of the Murray 1951 (1943)
This clip from a colour home movie filmed by Ernest Gourlay Morris in 1951 shows some of the female competitors on a boat on the Murray River and on stage competing for the Queen of the Murray beauty contest at ... [read more]
The travelling show (2001)
A boxing troupe sets up the tent for their travelling show. Former tent boxers talk about the limited opportunities available to young Indigenous men in Moree in the early 1960s and why they took up the tent-boxing life. Interviews are ... [read more]
The Brisbane Exhibition (1950)
This home movie clip shows various scenes filmed by Peter McIlwraith at the Brisbane Exhibition (or 'Ekka’) in the 1950s. It includes: scenes of a merry-go-round with children and adults riding on the horse-shaped seats; a miniature train which takes ... [read more]
The Movie Show – Episode 4 (2004)
A half-hour magazine program for television with Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton, the doyens of Australian television movie reviewers. This week they talk about Girl With A Pearl Earring with Colin Firth and Scarlett Johannson and the teen movie 13 ... [read more]
The South Bank Show (1996)
Melvyn Bragg reveals the secrets of the South Bank Show’s longevity. It first aired in 1978 and continues to this day as an eclectic mixture of popular art as well as great art and artists. He says the variety of ... [read more]
Introducing the storyteller (2007)
This clip shows images of the night sky as the storyteller (Mavis Malbunka) introduces the story and herself. [read more]
The Aunty Jack Show – Series Two (1974)
In this second series of the sketch comedy show most of the old favourites return from the first series. These include Neil and Errol (Grahame Bond and Rory O’Donoghue) the singing duo on the park bench, Kev Kavanagh (Grahame Bond) ... [read more]
Hoyts and Studebaker Cinema Advertisement: Touring Talkie Show (c1929)
This silent advertisement promotes the new ‘Touring Talkie Show’ truck operated by Hoyts – with sponsorship from Studebaker Car Corporation and the Shell Oil Company. [read more]
Magic show (1980)
At a charity function, political powerbroker Doc Wheelan (Broderick Crawford) challenges Gregory Wolfe (Robert Powell) to prove his powers. Wolfe responds with an indignant display of magic. Society matron Miss Twist (Mary Mackay) asks Wolfe to heal her sore tooth. ... [read more]
Future of the dreaming site (2007)
Western Arrernte elder Mavis Malbunka talks about the future of Tnorala and the need to conserve the sites and the environment. [read more]
Queen of the Murray 1952 (1943)
This clip from a colour home movie filmed by Ernest Gourlay features participants in the Queen of the Murray beauty contest 1952 including Miss Red Cliffs, Miss Murray Bridge, Miss Renmark, Miss Wentworth and Miss Mildura. Three young men dress-up ... [read more]
Drawing a positive character (1992)
Andrea Stretton is talking to Peter Carey. He is visiting Australia from his home in New York where his latest book, The Tax Inspector (1991), has just been published to rave reviews. The interview discusses whether getting some distance is ... [read more]
Men of many talents (1977)
Pym (John Meillon) entertains a small-town audience with his hilarious version of a song-and-dance man. Larry (Harold Hopkins) lights a lime pellet that will produce 'limelight’ for projection. Freddie (John Ewart) accompanies the images with an eye for the pretty ... [read more]
You must like your characters (1992)
Andrea Stretton comments on the strong sense of family in Carey’s fiction and he tells us he has no real idea of family. He was sent to boarding school at the age of 10 and his siblings were a decade ... [read more]
‘Damned yankee’ (1977)
Mr Pym (John Meillon) sees an unexpected and unwanted visitor as he struggles with a bogged wagon – his former protégé Pete Palmer (Rod Taylor), now his chief rival. Disgruntled piano player Lou (Garry McDonald) decides to join the opposition. [read more]
Freddie gets the job (1977)
Pym (John Meillon) and his son Larry (Harold Hopkins) are unable to find a replacement pianist after Lou has deserted – until the bustling arrival of Freddie Graves (John Ewart), piano tuner, 'picture pianist’ and man-about-town. [read more]
