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‘Cornish gets his payback’ (1974)
Inmate Darkie returns with a broken leg, after a beating from Mr Cornish (Bill Hunter). In the evening, Darkie kills Cornish with his crutch, in front of all the inmates – who show little emotion. [read more]
Workers and gum trees (1949)
Where there are different types of gum trees, different types of workers emerge. A prospector pans for gold in a creek; a miner digs for other minerals; beekeepers follow the bees that settle round flowering ironbark gums; pastoralists herd sheep ... [read more]
‘Have a good day and don’t be a nuisance …’ (1977)
Mrs Bilson (Ruth Cracknell) appears to be a doddering old lady when the doctor (Gerry Duggan) collects her from the farmhouse where she’s cared for by her daughter Mrs Herbert (Jude Kuring). In the car, she becomes a different person ... [read more]
Fast forward (1989)
Gribble Junior (Lachlan Jeffrey) has stolen the magic remote control from Pete (Sam Vandenberg) and is now wreaking havoc with it at school. As Pete struggles to get the remote back, innocent bystanders are caught in the crossfire with comical ... [read more]
Lisette’s life decision (2004)
Seventy-nine-year-old Lisette Nigot has decided to end her life. She is healthy and of sound mind and wants to maintain control over her life. [read more]
Learning curve (2002)
Emerging film producers Jason Gooden and Julian Saggers are re-editing their feature film. The intertitle tells us that producers have removed most of the footage directed by the second director Dennis Whitburn and gone back to the footage directed by ... [read more]
Solo dancer on grassy slope (c1936)
A dancer wearing a beret and holding a makeshift cane draws a pipe from his pocket and puts it in his mouth. A wistful dance routine incorporating the props follows. The dancer completes a series of turns, leaps and poses. ... [read more]
‘Montrose’ (c1940)
‘Montrose’, a large property with gardens overlooking the Brisbane River, was presented to the Queensland Society for Crippled Children by Mr George Marchant. In the home, children are tended to by nursing staff. On the veranda, a girl lies on ... [read more]
Practice makes perfect (1998)
Private investigator Charles believes that once the barrier of fidelity has been broken, adultery is easier a second and third time round. Helen, Catholic mother of six, describes how her twenty-eight-year marriage ended as a result of her husband’s adultery, ... [read more]
Exeter Family Study (1995)
The Exeter Family Study examined health, school performance, social life, behaviour and self-esteem in children of divorced parents. Dr Rosemary Dunlop of Macquarie University says that research shows that children successfully ‘put it behind them.’ Sister Aileen Shanahan of Aquinas ... [read more]
Training circus animals (1993)
We see lions being trained. Trainer Stafford Bullen says the same techniques are used to train lions and tigers and domestic cats. [read more]
Roadside stop (1998)
The family pull up at a gas station. The children are sent off to the toilet. Margie (Margaret Harvey) spies two elders Bert Nandy (Bruce Oliver) and Uncle Sam (Gnarnayarrahe Waitarie) sitting in a shed across the road. Flashback; a ... [read more]
Chocolate dipping department (c1926)
Women seated at tables carefully dip each individual chocolate and place them neatly on trays to dry. Their speed indicates they are familiar with this repetitive task. Men stand over the mixing machines which house boiling hot liquid chocolate. A ... [read more]
‘Variation on variation’ (1989)
Choreographer Graeme Murphy and dancer Kim Walker rehearse together and talk about how they collaborate. [read more]
Tony proposes (1980)
Tony Duff (Sam Neill) finally gets up the courage to propose to Lucinda Vane (Wendy Hughes) but he is too late. Lucinda has fallen in love with someone else and denies ever having given Tony reason to believe he had ... [read more]
‘You killed Basil’ (2009)
Eddie (Luke Carroll) works as a cleaner at Perth Museum. The security guard asks him to finish up. Eddie is surprised at the museum by his cousin Charlie (Leon Burchill), who inadvertently kills the security guard’s cat, Basil. Eddie and ... [read more]
Judy meets BJ and Goose (1983)
Judy (Nicole Kidman) gives as good as she gets when spoiled ‘Fat Kid’ (Anthony Alafaci) gloats that he can afford his BMX bike without having to resort to a supermarket summer job. Meanwhile Goose (James Lugton) and PJ (Angelo ... [read more]
Acrobatic antics (1945)
Wanting to relax with an afternoon beer, a man is hounded by his energetic son Trevor to play in the backyard. Trevor’s three fox terriers – Larry, Trigger and Terry – also join in the fun. The five of them ... [read more]
Daily life in Cuba (2002)
Pedro and his wife Amada are in their eighties. They live in a one-bedroom apartment. Pedro buys water from the street vendor and carries it home while Amada prepares a thin soup with a few vegetables. Pedro sells cordial crystals ... [read more]
Sparklers and beer (2009)
Kev (Hugo Weaving) is enjoying a beer by the river at sunset. He’s just had to leave behind items he wanted to purchase at a roadhouse because he didn’t have enough money. When his son Chook (Tom Russell) joins him ... [read more]
