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Ben protests at a family barbecue (1985)
At the Guthries barbeque, everyone is having a great time. Ben’s parents Ron (Dennis Miller) and Di (Anne Grigg), discuss their concerns about Ben’s behaviour with their friends, (John Clayton, Candy Raymond, David Downer). While these friends make fun of ... [read more]
Scabs (1984)
The wharfies are locked out because they won’t accept lower wages and a lessening of working conditions. Into this maelstrom come shiploads of Italian immigrants, refugees from Mussolini’s fascist state who are desperate to work and know nothing of the ... [read more]
A chemical imbalance (1985)
Col Turner (Chris Haywood) enjoys a beach walk with his wife Lorraine (Jennifer Cluff). They arrive home as the neighbour’s child, Kathy (Marion Chirgwin), breaks bottles on their driveway. Col hands her over to her father, Craig (Peter Kowitz). After ... [read more]
Delilah, Samson and Grandma (2009)
Delilah (Marissa Gibson) sees Samson (Rowan McNamara) at the shop, and his message of love written on the shop wall. She gives him a packet of chips and he follows her home to her grandmother’s place. Delilah’s grandmother (Mitjili Napanangka ... [read more]
An ordinary inner-city street (1990)
We are introduced to the residents of Union Street on an 'ordinary’ Sunday. The odour of cooking wafts from a Greek household to that of an elderly Anglo-Australian woman who wrinkles her nose in distaste. Her cat jumps through a ... [read more]
Forever is a long time (1990)
The languid faery King (Richard Moir) and Queen (Rowena Wallace) discover that today is the last day they have to grant seven wishes to humans or they will lose their magic power – forever! Their son, Prince Wilton (Justin Rosniak) ... [read more]
You can’t serve chicken without stuffing. (c1942)
This is a complete colour Tandaco Prepared Stuffing cinema advertisement from approximately 1942. It begins like a feature film with a title and melodramatic music and cuts to a woman crying as she peels onions for her roast chicken stuffing. ... [read more]
A bag of oranges at a funeral (1984)
The procession of funeral cars comes to a halt because Maggie (Ruth Cracknell) has spied a roadside stall selling really cheap bags of oranges. [read more]
A Charlie Chaplin comedy (1950)
Basher Bill (Michael Bidencope) is robbing Dolores (Lilian Fetherstonhaugh) on the side of the road after her return from the grocery store. She cries for help. Her cries wake Charlie (Cynthia Bidencope) who was sleeping in the bushes nearby. Charlie ... [read more]
Packed lunch (1985)
Bob (Gerry Sont) collects his father’s deliveries from ‘boss’ Fred Morgan (Peter Whitford) and the workers all enjoy a laugh at Fred’s expense. [read more]
‘I’ll break your spirit, Rudd’ (1932)
Old Carey (Len Budrick) calls in a long-standing debt from Rudd, confiscating his livestock in an attempt to force him to sell a parcel of land. Dad refuses and declares he will never give him the land. As rain clouds ... [read more]
Radio days (1979)
Shannon Jones (Liddy Clark) and her colleagues Reggie (Alfred Bell), Andy (John Warnock) and Hilda (June Collis) are recording a radio serial, Ma and Her Little Darling. Sound effects are done live in the studio and the cast collapse in ... [read more]
A question of teeth (1987)
Dola Darcy (Kaarin Fairfax) has offered her mother (Anne Phelan) the money to have her teeth done, as part of a campaign to help her look attractive so she can keep her husband from having affairs with other women. Dola ... [read more]
‘One poor miserable little creature’ (1987)
A Tasmanian tiger paces inside its caged enclosure, then is seen in its native environment and in suburbia. In voice-over, people recount their sightings of the animal. [read more]
Stan McCabe (1982)
Former test cricketer Bill O’Reilly recalls the genius of batsman Stan McCabe. [read more]
‘Why don’t we get something different?’ (1996)
After another heavy night of drinking, Mick (Jeremy Sims) walks home, past his disapproving brother Terry (Paul Gleeson). Meanwhile, a gang of bank robbers holds up a bank in Punchbowl, Sydney. The news is transmitted quickly over the airwaves. That ... [read more]
Go out and win (1985)
Coach (Kate Ferguson) gives Carol (Nicole Kidman) a pep talk, telling her that winning is everything. She wants Carol to be competitive and focused on winning the race. Carol easily wins her race to the satisfaction of her coach and ... [read more]
Stork considers his future (1971)
Anna (Jacki Weaver) takes her new housemate Stork (Bruce Spence) to Monash University, where she helps him look in the newspaper for a job. Stork has reveries about storming the Supreme Court as a revolutionary for the workers, or being ... [read more]
By plane (1988)
This is an Australia Post television commercial (TVC) advertising the Express Courier air service. [read more]
By road (1988)
This is an Australia Post television commercial (TVC) advertising the Express Courier road service. [read more]
