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Shaming the trunks (1993)
Flora (Anna Paquin) and the Maori children play a sexually suggestive game amongst the trees, watched by the Maori women. Mr Stewart (Sam Neill) stops Flora, telling her never to behave that way. He makes her scrub the trunks, during ... [read more]
The valley of death (1998)
Maurice Stubbs (Ray Barrett) makes a plaster cast of a paw print in the mud in his stockyards. He suspects a giant feral cat is killing his stock, and he shapes the print with his fingers, as if to make ... [read more]
‘God’s angry’ (2000)
In a flashback to the blind woman’s childhood, her mother Marie (Elise McCredie) tries to teach the child to pray, in a disused outback church. The child (Bree Beadman) has repeatedly tried to tell her mother that her grandfather is ... [read more]
‘Free stress for your work day’ (2000)
Trang (Deborah Le) gets ready for school but her mother Trieu (Nguyen Thi Ngoc Hien) asks her to stay home and help Uncle Le (Hieu Phan) in their garage garment factory. Trang’s year 12 brother Vu (Jazz Ly) offers to ... [read more]
Flying into war (1944)
A series of medium close-ups introduces eight Australian infantrymen by name: Pte AN McGregor (aka ‘Horse’), Lance-Cpl AC Pierson (‘Buster’), Pte RFC Northcott (‘Blue’), Pte AB Graffin (‘Puddin’), Pte MJ Driver (‘Maxie’), Corporal RA Box, Pte JH Adams (‘Shorty’) ... [read more]
A creep hits town (1985)
An unknown man in a Holden Monaro cruises through an Australian suburb looking for women. Spotting Fran (Noni Hazlehurst) in a phone box he gets out, stares at her lasciviously, blocks her exit and makes a crude, unwelcome pass. She ... [read more]
The disappearing Dakota (1961)
As spring brings warmer temperatures, preparations begin for the summer exploration season. The Royal Australian Air Force Dakota is made ready for flights into the interior, in support of a ground team travelling in a ‘tractor train’. The Dakota ferries ... [read more]
David Williamson at La Mama (1994)
Australian playwright David Williamson recalls meeting his wife, Kristin, at La Mama Theatre Company where they were both performing. Kristin also recalls the tall awkward young David. Williamson talks about Australian plays being popular with contemporary audiences at a time ... [read more]
Ricco (2004)
At school, Ricco stands with his hands drooped over an outside freshwater tap. He introduces himself to the audience, and the other main characters of the documentary soon after. [read more]
Boys – lay down your lives for the empire (1990)
It’s 1914 and Australia is preparing for a war in Europe. In voice-over, Scratch (Lachlan Jeffrey) recites the reasons why Australia’s young men should fight for the King. When Sydney rabbito Ned Crocker (Nathan Croft) is asked when he is ... [read more]
‘Boot Boys Wanted’ (1914)
This clip from a silent Kiwi Shoe Polish cinema advertisement shows boot staff from the Imperial Hotel resigning from their work to join the war. Having all his staff resign, the hotel manager makes a sign that says 'Boot Boys ... [read more]
Introduction to Kiwi Boot Polish (1914)
The hotel manager of the Imperial Hotel, London, pins a sign on the front window that says 'Boot Boys Wanted’. Two young boys see the sign and lament that they 'can’t polish boots for nuts’! An Australian soldier overhears them ... [read more]
What is culture? (2004)
Warren H Williams and John Williamson singing a song beneath the shadow of Uluru. Warren H Williams explains what culture means to him. [read more]
Then came happiness (1931)
Taking a narrative form, this advertisement from 1931 begins with Helen hanging out the clothes. Her daughter, Joan, brings her the mail and she opens an invitation to a bridge night which happens to be on the same night as ... [read more]
Broken heart, unsound mind (2005)
In reconstruction, in an overgrown field, an Aboriginal woman staggers through the lofty vegetation before falling to the ground. Frank, in voice-over narration, tells us that his mother’s heart and spirit were broken, and her life shattered because he was ... [read more]
A 1950s ‘costumed crime fighter’ (2002)
When they meet The Silver Shadow (Tayler Kane) for the first time, Josh (Alex Hopkins), Alex (Hannah Greenwood), Campbell (Aljin Abella), and Gretel (Sage Butler) find his being a 1950s superhero funny and old-fashioned. He realises that he must be ... [read more]
Painting the Dreamtime (1998)
Adrian Newstead, director of the Coo-ee Gallery in Sydney hopes that the art works will develop with the young Aboriginal painters and last forever. Aboriginal artist, Barbara Weir, says that she is painting to record the dreamtime for her grandchildren. [read more]
‘Bonza is tops, Bonza is ace!’ (1992)
Poss (Erin Pratten) is astonished when the spruikers from the ‘Bonza’ cereal TV advertisement come right out of the TV set and into the living room. They persuade Poss and her friend Kim (Maria Nguyen) that buying ‘Bonza’ breakfast cereal ... [read more]
Stretching the sausages (2000)
Lauren (Jasmine Ellis) is very worried about what Horace (Frank Gallacher) might be up to, and when she finds him stealing the sausages out of the kitchen she knows she was right. Her behaviour is making her stepfather (Matthew Parkinson) ... [read more]
‘A real lost world’ (2004)
In 1903 geologist William Ferguson found the claw of a carnivorous dinosaur while searching for coal in south-eastern Australia. [read more]
