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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]

‘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]

An ill wind (1985)

Two US weathermen were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation when the US exploded a test hydrogen bomb in the Marshall Islands in 1954. Lamont Noley believes their exposure was the result of insufficient knowledge and care. Don Baker believes ... [read more]

‘Industrial quantities of shazoom’ (2006)

Mr Jonathon (Ben Miller) is feeling intense pressure after the loss of his only boy dancer, Jason. He promotes Tenille (Shayni Notelovitz) to the lead role, but he realises he needs more razzle-dazzle, a few show stoppers, in his grand ... [read more]

Lunar research (1992)

Carbotek is an American firm working on a technique to extract the oxygen locked up in the surface of the moon. They are working with NASA to explore this technique as a future source of ... [read more]

‘What’s today’s adventure, Bill?’ (2005)

The opening titles for The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill show Bottle Top Bill (voiced by Graham Matters), his best friend Corky (voiced by Emma Jane Hyland) and their surrounding environment being constructed from items found around the home. Today’s ... [read more]

‘Hooked on money’ (1982)

In the Mincoh offices the telephones run hot as news of the war in Namibia and the company’s resultant share-price surge spreads. Liz (Tina Bursill) fields a call from a journalist while receptionist Jacqui (Mercia Deane-Johns) asks Dick Coleman (Ronald ... [read more]

‘Who killed Elvis?’ (2001)

After the funeral, relatives and friends gather at Lola’s house for a dinner cooked by Manola, Lola’s sister (Lourdes Bartolomé). Lucia is unaware that her pet goat Elvis has provided the main course. Lucia (Alice Ansara) takes her mother’s sleeping ... [read more]

Speaking forensically (1991)

Ian Cochrane (Sean Scully) finds a vital clue. Superintendent Wallace (Peter Cummins) tells Jock Brennan (Paul Sonkkila) that he will have to drill Cochrane on how to testify to the forensic significance of the find in court, a prospect Brennan ... [read more]

Out from jail (1983)

This is the first verse of ‘Jailanguru Pakarnu’, a 12-bar rock and blues song performed in this clip by the Warumpi Band. It is the first rock song in an Aboriginal language to achieve widespread airplay and recognition. [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]

‘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]

‘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]

Whoa – just relax, man! (2010)

J (James Frecheville) is travelling as a passenger in Craig’s car in the Melbourne beachside suburb of St Kilda when a couple of youths pull up beside them at traffic lights and insult them. Craig (Sullivan Stapleton) hands J a ... [read more]

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