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A critical housing problem (1957)
In Sydney in the mid-1950s, a housing shortage forces large families to live in dilapidated houses and single rooms in run-down tenement flats. Leonard Teale’s voice-over narration emphasises both the physical and psychological impact of living in such conditions and ... [read more]
In a strange land (1990)
A country show is underway. Women compete in a wood-chopping event, children are entertained with a Punch and Judy show, Father Christmas makes an appearance. Aya (Eri Ishida) is cooking. A woman cautions her about using too much salt and ... [read more]
Aya meets a man (1990)
At work in the Japanese restaurant, Aya (Eri Ishida) talks to the man with whom she will later have an affair. She tells him she has been in Australia for eight years and that it is good for her son ... [read more]
Deaf, blind, drunk and sick (2002)
The three brothers have escaped the bookie robbery with the bags of loot, only to wind up back at Flemington Racecourse. Dale (Guy Pearce) asks a tipsy racegoer on her way home if he can buy her car. Pamela (Kate ... [read more]
Nobby’s Nuts (1988)
The Nobby’s Nuts 'pub posters’ advertisement can be viewed here in its entirety. The characters in three vintage pub posters start to interact when the football from one poster lands on the table in the nightclub poster. The initial tension ... [read more]
This pig ain’t no Babe (1985)
Bertie (Anthony Richards) enrages a boar, which then escapes and chases him up a tree. Cranky Frank Phillips (Martin Vaughan) unwittingly distracts the boar and becomes its next target. He and his wife Shalagh Phillips (Carole Skinner) flee to the ... [read more]
False alarm (2007)
Jim (Ben Oxenbould) is taking holidaymakers Adam (Andy Rodoreda), Grace (Diana Glenn) and Lee (Maeve Dermody) out on the water in a dinghy in search of a good place to fish. They settle in a quiet spot, drop anchor and ... [read more]
Night storm hits (2007)
Grace (Diana Glenn) and Lee (Maeve Dermody) can see Adam’s (Andy Rodoreda) body floating in the water and tearfully say goodbye to him. The day of terror then turns into night, and a tropical storm sweeps in. The sisters complain ... [read more]
Dad’s clock (2001)
The animated short Dad’s Clock is narrated by Barry Otto and can be seen here in full. A giant metal bird flies towards the wooden skeleton of a ship on a wooden slatted sea. Inside the ship is the timber ... [read more]
Placid breaks every bone (2003)
Placid Lake (Ben Lee) wakes in hospital having broken ‘every bone in his body’. His best friend Gemma Taylor (Rose Byrne) curses the school bullies for their part in the incident but his parents, Sylvia (Miranda Richardson) and Doug (Garry ... [read more]
Guy hardly knows Lizzie (1997)
Guy (Richard Roxburgh) tells several guests that he wanted to spend his life with Lizzie (Cate Blanchett) from the moment he saw her. Raoul (Jacek Koman) tells him Lizzie had always said she would be married at 30 years of ... [read more]
Decision time (2007)
Filmmaker Janet Merewether discusses the year she was born and what the situation for women was at the time. The film then shifts to a highly stylised scene of the filmmaker with a suitcase standing outside a toy house and ... [read more]
Truth and lies (1982)
Kate (Judy Davis) and Steve (Richard Moir) have become allies and lovers, united by the disappearance of Mary Ford. In bed, Kate tells him she blew up the bulldozers on his building site a year earlier. Before he can work ... [read more]
‘I gotta go’ (1969)
Frankie McCoy (Ken Shorter) tells his mother (Lyndall Barbour) that his appeal has failed – he must join the army on Monday. In the pub where he’s the 'SP’ bookmaker, his friends toast him before he leaves. [read more]
‘I’m dying to see the sights’ (1975)
The building’s wine bar is about to open up for the evening rush but Norma Whittaker (Sheila Kennelly) can’t figure out why Jane Chester hasn’t turned up for her shift (she’s too busy dealing with her druggie sister Debbie). Norma ... [read more]
To the people of Australia (1941)
This silent black-and-white cinema advertisement uses text to present a direct appeal from the Federal Treasurer, JB Chifley. The text states ‘To you who now enjoy comfortable entertainment in perfect safety. I would give a timely reminder of your obligation ... [read more]
War paint (1999)
A man tells his daughter he is going to the pub. Melanie (Alyssa McClelland) is waiting for her friends to pick her up and take her to the dance. A car pulls up. Three youths step out and want to ... [read more]
Homeless (1985)
When Joe (Christopher Schlusser) brings home the literature from his Communist friends his father (Tony Llewellyn Jones) gets really angry. Drunk again, he lashes out but Joe tells his dad that he is the breadwinner so he can bring home ... [read more]
Two ways (2006)
Rupert Max Stuart, Arrernte Mat-utjarra Elder oversees the preparation of kangaroo by his two descendents. He tells us that he never ate white man’s food growing up and was taught by the old men and ladies. Max is teaching the ... [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]
