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Beauty and the boy (1983)
Aunt Vanessa (Wendy Hughes) has returned from London, where she has lived for some years. Her sister Lila (Robyn Nevin) takes PS (Nicholas Gledhill), the six-year-old son of their late sister, to the ship to meet her. PS has never ... [read more]
‘Hang by the neck’ (1975)
The villainous Liz (Margaret Laurence) visits the incarcerated Gary (Mike Ferguson) to taunt him about the murder for which she has set him up to take the blame. [read more]
The mall (1982)
Debbie and Gina (Tina Waller and Lorraine Palamara) hang out at the mall. Not having money doesn’t stop them enjoying the merchandise but they are easy pickings for the store detective. [read more]
Quarrying limestone (c1926)
This clip begins with a shot of a steam shovel collecting the limestone rubble from the quarry and emptying it into large bins for transport. A man in the foreground of the frame shovels the smaller pieces of rubble into ... [read more]
Police Boys’ Club (1939)
A young boy is taken to the Police Boys Club. Its aim, according to the narration, is to ‘keep boys off the streets’. It shows the boys working in the gym, boxing, and socialising in a safe environment. Later, a ... [read more]
‘Welcome to Manila’ (2002)
Linda Phillips, a volunteer law student from Australia, is met by Hoi Trinh, an Australian-Vietnamese lawyer at Manila Airport. Hoi has volunteered to help the Vietnamese boat people who are living in the Philippines as stateless persons. Linda has joined ... [read more]
Women’s lib (1979)
Cath (Lorna Lesley) is now in a relationship with Mike (Sam Neill), the temp teacher from school two years before. She is discovering art, culture, poetry, sexual politics and love. [read more]
Mary opens the trunk (2007)
Mary McGarvie (Catherine Zeta-Jones) finds a framed photo of Houdini’s mother on her wedding day. 'She looks like you’, Benji (Saoirse Ronan) tells her. Mr Sugarman (Timothy Spall) enters, overhears the comment and confirms that McGarvie was 'the absolute image’ ... [read more]
Mother Tongue (2002)
You can view the short film Mother Tongue here in its entirety. In Korea in 1976, a young Korean girl and her mother record daily events for the girl’s absent father, then learn English in preparation for their move to ... [read more]
Crust (1987)
You can watch the animated short film Crust here in its entirety. The protagonists of this surreal drama are seated at the kitchen table arguing over a broken biscuit. Evenrude (voiced by Bruce Currie) resembles a medieval knight with a ... [read more]
Victim of the economy (1996)
Bill Lew had four restaurant businesses before the 1990–91 recession. He recalls 'the good old days’ before he lost it all. He visits his old hairdresser and the restaurant. Bill’s wife, Elizabeth, adds a few poignant comments. [read more]
Looking for work (1953)
This sequence depicts men brought to Australia on a work contract (Giuseppe Michelini, Luigi Borsi, Giuseppe Cusato, Giorgio Mangiamele) seeking work after the employment promised by the Australian government has failed to materialise. Friction between two of the men in ... [read more]
‘The city of corruption’ (1976)
Father Marshall (Tom Keneally) arrives to prepare the boys for a three-day retreat, during which they must observe complete silence. Before they start, he delivers a terrifying sermon about death and damnation, and what the fires of hell will feel ... [read more]
Marriage resisters (2002)
Anna Yen says in a voice-over, ‘Once upon a time, long ago, in a land far, far away’. The story she tells is about Yen’s grandmother’s region becoming famous for silk growing. There are extreme close-ups of silk passing through ... [read more]
Cheap blonde (1998)
You can watch Cheap Blonde here in its entirety. This experimental film rearranges the same sentence 22 times: ‘A famous filmmaker said: “Cinema is the history of men filming women”’, while deconstructing the video image of a woman bathing in ... [read more]
Out on the wing (1964)
During another of Smithy’s pioneering flights in the Southern Cross, one of the engines died and another had almost used up all its fuel, although the engine itself was still running. They were still several hours from Sydney, so Gordon ... [read more]
Backyard play (1932)
This simple home movie clip taken by Leslie Francis Farey from 1932 shows us children candidly playing in a suburban backyard in Melbourne. Three children play with a pram, doll and tin drum. The youngest child is holding what looks ... [read more]
Imitating the teachers (1987)
When actor Max Gillies was 12 years old, he and a school friend imitated his teachers. One of the teachers encouraged them, and he found himself having to do repeat performances of his impersonations of all the teachers in the ... [read more]
‘They can see Australia!’ (1946)
Kingsford Smith and co-pilot Charles Ulm (John Tate) are nearing the Australian coastline, after a history-making flight across the Pacific from San Francisco. A violent storm has engulfed their plane, the converted Fokker now known as the Southern Cross. In ... [read more]
One version of an interrogation (2002)
In a flashback, Max Stuart (David Ngoombujarra) is under interrogation in the Ceduna police station. Constable Jones (Garry Waddell) beats him, another policeman throttles him. Detective Sergeant Turner (Roy Billing) begins to dictate a confession, correcting Stuart’s English for the ... [read more]
