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Two despots (1987)
Frank (Leo McKern) is convalescing back in Port Douglas, with Frances (Julia Blake) in the role of servant, because he is forbidden to exert himself. When he criticises her children back in Melbourne for the umpteenth time, Frances tells him ... [read more]
Postcode squares (1988)
This is an Australia Post television commercial (TVC) promoting the organisation’s new corporate image and its new electronic systems of sorting mail. [read more]
‘Gee, she’s a film star’ (1963)
At the advice of his working-class neighbours, Pino (Francesco Pino) visits a marriage agency, asking for ‘a wife … 24 to 42’, and ‘blonde’. [read more]
Captains (1987)
An intoxicated man sways before the camera. Three Aboriginal women walk into a games parlour in seedy Kings Cross. They sit at a table and check out the other patrons. Subtitles tell us about 'Captains’ – men who can be ... [read more]
Maggie’s arrival (1993)
On the road into Mount Thomas, PJ Hasham (Martin Sacks) and Nick Schultz (William McInnes) pull over a young woman for a random breath test. PJ attempts to flirt with the stranger, only to discover that she is soon to ... [read more]
‘Home sweet home’ (2002)
Miller (Richard Wilson) watches as his new neighbours arrive in Jonathan Archer’s (David Roberts) truck. Reaching their destination, the Wild Spring Animal Clinic, Aggie (Jade Ewen) is amazed and excited while Reilly (Douglas Smith) is far from impressed with his ... [read more]
‘I’m Max’ (2001)
Max (Michael Tuahine) works at a fish processing factory, where he locks eyes with the boss’s daughter, Dimitra (Phaedra Nicolaidis). Walking home, a co-worker (Duncan Young) warns Max away from Dimitra and they fight. Max then meets Harry (Tony Barry), ... [read more]
‘You’re a good part of this’ (2005)
Kenny answers a knock at the door. It is Steven. Steven asks for a smoke. There is an altercation between Kenny and Steven over Steven’s abuse of his mother Rosie. The old man tells Kenny not to participate in the ... [read more]
Child’s play (2002)
A black-and-white clip shows the dramatisation of a story told by the old people in Central Australia. Children are playing games – clapping, drawing in the dirt. A woman announces that some children are going to go with her to ... [read more]
Dog watching (2006)
A car crawls along the street, and the boy in the front seat is looking intently at the dogs he sees on his journey. Dion Beasley is being driven around by his carer Joie Boulter so that Dion can indulge ... [read more]
Matilda needs Mutt (2008)
Matilda is taken to hospital, and Mutt is the culprit. ‘In the doghouse’, Mutt is chained up, unable to touch his beloved ball. Matilda returns, all patched up, and Mac, alone, trudges up the hill to milk her. But Matilda ... [read more]
Delegates 2 (1928)
This clip, shot outside Melbourne Trades Hall, shows individual shots of key Labor personalities attending the 1928 Victorian party’s Easter conference. [read more]
SS Katoomba unloading (1899)
This actuality footage shows the unloading of materials from the SS Katoomba at a busy wharf in Brisbane. Men unload large sacks and crates onto trolleys and wheel them down a gangway off the ship. In the foreground, workers use ... [read more]
Undercover headquarters (1998)
Ellen ‘Mack’ Mackenzie (Anita Hegh) drives Peter Church (Peter Phelps) back to undercover headquarters after picking him up from the police station. He was 'arrested’ as part of a successful drug sting where he played the buyer. Church is still ... [read more]
‘Persil dazzle’ (1946)
In their bridal suite, a newly married couple on their honeymoon (Muriel Howard and Albert Chappelle), retell in song the story of how Persil Washing Powder brought them together and transformed a ‘drab and dreary’ Miss into a Mrs! The ... [read more]
Reflections on Marxism (1991)
Jim McClelland reflects that Marxism was just as much a dogma as religion. He talks of the collapse of communism in the USSR and his own disillusionment with Trotskyism. [read more]
‘Mystery man’ (1990)
Mrs Williams (Rhondda Findleton) tells her other boarders and her children, Cherry (Rebecca Smart) and Sam (Steven Scott-Young) that a new boarder is moving into the house. Later in the evening as Cherry is wearing her pretend barrister’s wig in ... [read more]
‘One penny per tintinnabulation’ (1956)
Reverend Lambeth (Ralph Richardson) stops to top up his overheating car radiator and is greeted by Smiley (Colin Petersen) and his best friend Joey (Bruce Archer). Smiley has a bruised cheek from a fight; the Reverend approves of what he ... [read more]
Aboriginal and colonial floats (1938)
This clip from a home movie begins with a title card, then cuts to four men wearing armour and riding horses. Next is a wide shot of the Aboriginal float, a float commemorating the First Fleet, a Governor Philip float, ... [read more]
Countdown! (1986)
Barbara (Fiona Latham) from the Socialist Youth Alliance asks Dogs in Space to play a benefit gig. Sam (Michael Hutchence) and everyone else is distracted by TV rock show Countdown (1974-87). Chainsaw Man (Chris Haywood) starts the engine of his ... [read more]
