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Australia’s first astronaut (c1960)
An animation shows Rocket’s journey from moon to earth and then, in studio, his arrival in a cloud of dust. Unfortunately Miss Pat (Patricia Lovell) opens Rocket, who is ‘not speaking’, to discover Mr Squiggle is not inside. Doormat arrives ... [read more]
Castle prison (1993)
Pam maintains a relationship with a recidivist, Derek, who is serving a life imprisonment term for murder. [read more]
‘She’d probably come across for any guy’ (1977)
Kevin (Paul Couzens) and Anne (Eva Dickinson) have broken up, partly because he let his mate Bob (Carl Steven) see them as they were starting to have sex in her bedroom. Drunk and upset, Kevin tries to talk to Bob, ... [read more]
It Isn’t Done (1988)
Filmmaker Ken G Hall talks about directing Cecil Kellaway in It Isn’t Done (1937). [read more]
Piety (1998)
Grace (Justine Saunders) returns home to not much welcome. Her niece Loretta (Roxanne McDonald) leads Grace to her recently departed sister’s room. [read more]
Dancing flowers (c1955)
A group of flowering plants – violet, white, orange, and purple – slowly blossom against a background of greenery. This is captured using time lapse photography methods. [read more]
‘People die out in this country’ (2003)
Bogged and stranded a long way from help, Sandy (Toni Collette) asks Hiromitsu (Gotaro Tsunashima) if she can borrow his phone, because she has no signal. He is reluctant to let anyone know they are lost. She explains how bad ... [read more]
‘All these memories of you’ (2001)
Eddie Maloney (Ben Mendelsohn) hitches a ride back home to Coollawarra, his home town, as his brother Pete (Andrew S Gilbert) negotiates his way out of some free fish. At home, Pete’s wife Tully (Susie Porter) reiterates her opposition to ... [read more]
Peterson arrives (1967)
Constable Peterson (Konrad Matthaei) is met by Sergeant Miller (Ronald Morse) and tracker Jubbal (Ed Devereaux) upon his arrival at Coopers Creek. Peterson tells Miller and his wife (Marie Clark) he’s on special assignment. [read more]
‘We didn’t take their warning’ (1967)
Jubbal (Ed Devereaux) tells Peterson (Konrad Matthaei) he will not return to Cooper’s Creek. Peterson calls him a coward. [read more]
History (2008)
A boy (Joel Edgerton) speculates on his father’s stories, silences and past as a Lithuanian refugee. [read more]
‘Is he kind to you?’ (1965)
Chris (Chris Tsalikis) offers Nick (George Dixon) money to leave. Margot (Janina Lebedew) tells her father (Robert Clarke) she loves Nick. [read more]
Sexuality (1980)
An older woman approaches her older male partner and caresses and kisses him. [read more]
Like one big family (1983)
Two people removed from their families as children to enter into servitude, Margaret Tucker and Bill Reid, speak of their experience growing up. Historical footage shows children placed in missions. [read more]
Candy (1978)
When a passerby (Colin McEwan) enters a jeans store, he gets more than he bargained for with shop assistant Berys (Laurel McGowan) who prefers him to use her ‘boutique name’, Candy. [read more]
Without me you wouldn’t have jobs (2011)
Greg (Vince Colosimo) responds angrily after Hakim (Robert Rabiah) accuses him of underpaying his workers. He points out forcefully that if it wasn’t for him they wouldn’t have jobs. [read more]
‘I’m right into passion’ (1989)
Ted Egan visits opal town Mintabie and Yvonne, an old friend who lives there. [read more]
‘Brussels sprouts’ (2005)
Still photographer Carol Jerrems made a short film in 1975 featuring 15-year-old schoolboys from Heidelberg Tech. Most of them had been expelled and, in Carol’s words, preferred ‘bashing, beer, sheilas, gang bangs, gang fights, billiards, stealing and hanging about’. [read more]
