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‘A real dog town’ (1983)

Karli (Tracy Mann) visits her drag queen friend Trixie (David Argue), who has just come off stage. She gives him a hit of heroin she bought earlier in the night. She’s preoccupied with her own thoughts as Trixie quietly slips ... [read more]

‘Wake up, Mutti’ (2007)

Raimond (Kodi Smit-McPhee) discovers that his mother Christina (Franka Potente) has taken an overdose. While his father Romulus (Eric Bana) rushes to get help, Raimond must try to keep his mother awake, so he tells her an impromptu story. He ... [read more]

‘Dirty little bugger’ (2007)

Charlie (Luke Ford) draws rude self-portraits as he and his brother Thomas (Rhys Wakefield) sit at home. Their parents return from a sex and pregnancy class, where Maggie (Toni Collette) has had one of her ‘attacks’, due to high blood ... [read more]

Canadian turbulence (1983)

Explorer Dick Smith is on a round-the-world solo helicopter flight. He is travelling in northern Canada when he is forced to land because of poor weather. [read more]

Refrigerated supplies (1984)

The Australian Antarctic Research occupation of Heard Island 1947-1955 left abandoned supplies. These are available to anyone in need. They include, aviation fuel, gas, paint, food and medical supplies. [read more]

Food preparation (c1919)

Female Red Cross volunteers weigh and cut up vegetables (including pumpkins and potatoes) and fill jars. Soldiers carve and paint wooden toy animals while the women make stuffed dolls. [read more]

Hanging out (2004)

Ganggu Mama (David Ngoombujarra) comes to town and sees his nephew Jackson (Clarence Ryan) hanging out with his mates Mr Deadly and Easy J. He suggests they join him busking at the Fremantle markets. [read more]

Memo (2002)

Joe Hill (Peter O’Brien) confronts his boss Ted Hudson (Richard Carter) over a memo he has received about ‘appearance and personal hygiene’. Then, to his surprise, his daughter Ruby (Bree Beadman) shows up at the office. [read more]

Breaking down (2007)

Brothers Scott (Michael Tuahine) and Nick (David Page) are at Big Boy Burgers drive-through restaurant. When the car breaks down, it places them in an awkward position. Will they get over it? [read more]

Tenterfield beauty queen (2005)

Over footage of Cindy as a 17-year-old, we hear Cindy five years on, talking about what she has done since completing her HSC. She lists working in St George doing seasonal work; moving to Tenterfield to live with her ... [read more]

Possums and goannas (1920)

After a long journey to their new home, a slab bark hut in pristine bushland, the Rudds settle down to sleep, with seven people in the two beds. A possum and then a goanna come to investigate their new neighbours. [read more]

‘What a man!’ (2007)

Jean (Brenda Blethyn) is drunk after the funeral of a neighbour. Tim (Khan Chittenden), Jill (Emma Booth), Kelly (Katie Wall) and Mark (Richard Wilson) return to a frosty reception after an afternoon of ice-skating. For the first time Tim stands ... [read more]

‘Increase your speed’ (2000)

In this action sequence the two replicants Xanda (Jennifer Congram) and Isaac (Ric Anderson) pursue the bus driven by Hugh (Mark Owen-Taylor). Jackson (Craig Horner) meets Cybergirl (Ania Stepien), who is secretly hitching a ride in their bus. [read more]

Settlers attacked (1935)

Morrison (Franklyn Bennett) has married Jane Judd (Margot Rhys) because of a promise he made before he met Biddy O’Shea. Biddy has also married, and both women have had a baby. When Aborigines attack and kill her family, the fatally ... [read more]

Zigzag (1978)

Essie Coffey instructs some young people on how to track animals. They are looking for porcupine tracks, and finally find one. A porcupine never walks straight says Essie, but always walks in a zig zag. They follow the porcupine to ... [read more]

Men’s opinion of women (2000)

Presenter Rachael Oakes-Ash asks men in the street what they look for in a woman. Media personality Amanda Keller says she has given up picking fault in other women. [read more]

New China (1997)

Young Chinese fashion designers Guo Pei and Sun Jian talk about the differences between themselves and their parents, how modern Chinese youth really just want to make money, and how they have no interest in politics. [read more]

‘Bloody rent increases’ (1976)

In Norma’s wine bar, Norma (Sheila Kennelly) and Weppo (Roger Ward) discuss the new barman. Edie (Wendy Blacklock) comes in with her nephews, Grant (Michael Howard) and Lee (Stephen McDonald), and has trouble understanding their teenage talk. [read more]

Thamar (c1936)

In this brief colour sequence from the ballet Thamar, Thamar seduces a man whom she is going to lure to her castle before killing him. [read more]

I love you Betty (1998)

Ari (Alex Dimitriades), Joe (Damien Fotiou) and Joe’s fiancé Dina (Dona Kaskanis) are at the ‘Steki’, a Greek nightclub, when Betty (Elena Mandalis) arrives, looking distraught. Dina has been flirting with Ari all night, but she recoils when he kisses ... [read more]

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