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‘I’m going to Nashville’ (1997)
Ralph (Matt Day) attempts to fix the car after driving through the night with Boyd (Richard Roxburgh) and Patsy (Miranda Otto), two big-city types in a rush to get to Sydney. Boyd’s impatience causes an injury to Ralph’s hand. He ... [read more]
Caring for a pet is hard work! (2005)
B Max has invented a robotic rabbit to keep the white rabbit company but it doesn’t work. Razzles makes a list about how to look after the rabbit, and in an animated sequence each of the dogs shows what they ... [read more]
The calm before the storm (1976)
It is just three days before the declaration of war in September 1939 and the first day of school holidays for Kitty (Susan Hannaford) and Terry Sullivan (Richard Morgan). Grace Sullivan (Lorraine Bayly), their mother, sends them to the corner ... [read more]
Jenny has a wacky side (1997)
Guy (Richard Roxburgh) tells Jenny (Frances O’Connor) off for how badly she has set the table for dinner. His parents (Genevieve Mooy, Michael Ross) arrive and Jenny mischievously explains why each object in the big pile now on the table ... [read more]
‘Why did you do this for me?’ (2005)
Eddie (David Wenham) has been sacked, but hasn’t yet told his wife. At Flinders Street Station in Melbourne he uses a payphone to line up an interview at a placement agency, but an elderly woman falls on the pavement as ... [read more]
The fighting Alibrandi women (1999)
Michael Andretti has saved Josie (Pia Miranda) from a ticklish situation at school, after she broke another girl’s nose with a school book. At home, Christina (Greta Scacchi) upbraids her daughter for turning her father into a hero. Christina and ... [read more]
To cross the Nullarbor Plain (1984)
Having been thwarted by what he described as a massive horseshoe-shaped salt pan to the far north of Adelaide, Edward John Eyre (played in this reenactment by Paul Mason) decided, against government advice, to continue east to west from the ... [read more]
‘I want to dance with you’ (1992)
Scott (Paul Mercurio) dances alone while Fran (Tara Morice) watches from a hidden vantage point. She tells him that she likes his rule-breaking style and wants to partner him at the Pan Pacific championships. [read more]
‘A great day for the Murrays’ (1954)
‘Gelignite’ Jack Murray and his navigator and co-driver Bill Murray cross the finish line first at the Sydney Showground to loud cheers. At the State Theatre in Sydney, the Redex managing director and president of the Sporting Car Club present ... [read more]
The benefits of methadone (1975)
During a live TV debate, Dr Wolf (Max Gillies) defends his use of methadone to treat addicts. At his clinic we see the effects of the treatment, as two patients in a stupor try to play table tennis, aided by ... [read more]
Killer dust (1993)
Matilda (Amy Terelinck) and her father (Geoff Morrell) are caught a long way from home by a fierce dust storm. It overturns their truck and kills a lot of sheep, but they survive unhurt. Matilda’s mother Ellen (Susan Lyons) is ... [read more]
Vicki is feeling lonely (1998)
Vicki (Susie Porter) is finding the loneliness and monotony of being a mother of young children very difficult. When her husband Greg (Tamblyn Lord) talks excitedly about his work at the hospital while clipping his toenails in bed, she storms ... [read more]
‘Don’t let her go!’ (2006)
Lee (voiced by Alycia Debnam-Carey) plays with her food at dinner while a radio broadcaster (Barry Eaton) describes a scene at the airport where Mrs Petrov (voiced by Inge Romantsova) is attempting to board a plane back to the Soviet ... [read more]
A river to be turned (1952)
The first stages of the Snowy Mountains Scheme are detailed, from the survey and hydrology crews measuring river flows at the Snowy headwaters, to the Guthega project (the first project to be completed), now underway. [read more]
Folding mechanism of print machine (1911)
The folding mechanism of the printing machine at the Sydney Morning Herald is shown in operation, and then a mechanical hoist transfers the papers to the publishing room. [read more]
The debate (1990)
At an inter-school debate, Danny (Noah Taylor) and Thandiwe (Thandiwe Newton) speak to opposing sides of a motion that ‘intellectual pursuits are the highest form of human endeavour’. [read more]
The promised land? (1954)
As the Queen prepares to speak at a state banquet in Canberra, the nation gathers to listen. People dancing aboard ship, a stockman in the outback, Australian soldiers on exercise, a young family in their lounge room, businessmen in a ... [read more]
Prejudice – alive and well (2003)
Tony Hewson is the Human Resources Manager at the abattoir in Young, NSW. He says that the Hazara refugees from Afghanistan are good workers. He says labour is hard to get in a boom town like Young and he ... [read more]
The quick way to cut down trees (1933)
Wayne Ridgeway (Dick Fair, credited as Grant Lyndsay) has gone to work for Clive Sherrington (John Warwick), after recuperating from a horse fall at Enderby Station. While setting explosives to fell trees, Ridgeway recognises the man who knocked him off ... [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]
