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What Claire sees (2011)
Claire (Sigrid Thornton) describes what she saw on the day of the incident. In flashback, she hears a commotion outside her home and sees Wayne (Luke Ford) smashing his car into her husband’s Jaguar, while Greg (Vince Colosimo) is still ... [read more]
‘Is it all right to take pictures?’ (1987)
Tourists take photos of the local people and pay a fee. A young Papua New Guinean is interviewed about his response to tourism. [read more]
Tramcar, San Francisco (1977)
This clip shows a tram being turned around on a circular track, so it can head back up the hill on its return route. [read more]
Caste system (2000)
A group of people recite a poem written by Romaine Moreton about the racially-based caste system that operated in Australia until recent times. [read more]
‘I’ve got your picture, she’s got you’ (1992)
Kerry (Belinda McClory) is shadowing Jack (Richard Sutherland) and his new girlfriend (Ola Chan), one of the nurses from the hospital. Her voice-over shows how close to the edge she is. The lovers are stopped in the street by a ... [read more]
A new science (2008)
This clip is set after Truganini and George Robinson have moved the remaining population of Indigenous Tasmanians to Flinders Island. Professor Lyndall Ryan explains the scientific rationalisation of the high death rate of the Tasmanian Aboriginal People. Rachel Perkins’s narration ... [read more]
‘Local mountain hillbilly’ (1994)
Local people’s comments on the Waters family and father Ces’s autocratic methods are intercut with Ces’s son Troy exercising with a punching bag and talking about his feelings after winning a bout. [read more]
‘Nice cockroaches’ (1994)
There are 5,000 types of cockroaches. Only six are considered pests. We look at the largest cockroaches, and meet Bonnie and Clyde who have become domestic pets. [read more]
Polish ecology (1991)
After 40 years of communism, Poland was left with highly polluting industries. The citizens are now demanding change. We see images of factories over a Polish song sung by a group of children. [read more]
Don Bradman’s captaincy (1982)
Former international cricketer Bill O’Reilly recalls Don Bradman’s captaincy during the 1937 and 1938 test cricket series. [read more]
Incompetents at work (1986)
While our intrepid private detectives (Terry Bader and Richard Healy) are bungling yet another case, shadowing the factory owner’s wife (Anna Maria Winchester), their Girl Friday (Debra Lawrence) takes on the dirty work on the factory floor to find out ... [read more]
Scotties (1983)
While spending the day sick at home, Julie Fry (Rebecca Stewart) develops a theory about paper and tissue boxes. [read more]
What’s on TV? (1988)
While running away, Griffin (Hamish McFarlane) enters a showroom full of televisions that are all switched to the same channel. Confused, he stares at a man on screen, thinking the man can hear him, and asks him where the cathedral ... [read more]
‘Work or die’ (2000)
Slave labourers were used by German industry during the Second World War. Siemens, BMW and Krupp are named. Survivors Kitia Altman and Abraham Biderman recall the horrors of being slave labourers. [read more]
‘I’ve missed so much of my life, sir’ (1976)
Exhausted and increasingly incoherent, Morgan (Dennis Hopper) bails up a wealthy family, the McPhersons, as the Victorian police close in. He becomes maudlin as he reflects on the life he has missed out on. [read more]
‘She’s not for you’ (1988)
Richard Eastwick (Hugo Weaving) is newly arrived from England, a poor young immigrant with no prospects. He’s befriended by a government clerk who invites him to live in the same boarding house. Richard is smitten by a young woman, Kate ... [read more]
‘There is nothing a horse can do, but bear it’ (1978)
Gerry Barker has taken his family and Black Beauty on a happy Sunday picnic. On their way home they meet old Sam. Black Beauty is horrified to discover that Sam’s worn-out old horse is the once spirited but now beaten ... [read more]
‘God is better than football’ (2003)
As Harvie’s Alzheimer’s disease worsens, his nursing home is visited by a church group, entertaining him with the song 'God is better than football, God is better than beer’. Harvie sees in his imagination the residents of the home animated ... [read more]
A multicultural marriage (2004)
Dallas and Zabi are getting married. The couple met when Dallas, a law student, was teaching Zabi English. Zabi is a refugee survivor of the MV Tampa and Nauru. Scenes of the wedding are shown, including some of the Afghan ... [read more]
‘Get us out of this hellhole’ (2004)
The First Fleet is on its way to Botany Bay. Governor Arthur Phillip (Sam Neill), Reverend Johnson (Garry McDonald) and Lieutenant Clarke (Jack Davenport) discuss the colony’s prospects over dinner. Down below, the convicts scrabble for leftovers. When Clarke visits ... [read more]
