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‘My foot against the back of your neck’ (2001)
Jim Doyle (David Wenham) has been hired by Centabank to perfect his research into how to predict the stock market. The bank’s senior research analyst Vincent (Greg Stone) sets up a series of preliminary tests, but chief executive Simon (Anthony ... [read more]
‘Fallen from the sky’ (2000)
The Japanese man (Rikiya Kurokawa) arrives at a suburban house in Australia to buy a car. A young blind woman (Rose Byrne) shows him into a crime scene, with blood and brains on the ceiling. She is a cousin, now ... [read more]
Bad Bob loses it (1985)
Bertie (Anthony Richards) is in hiding, after having fed the gang’s stash of grog to the pigs in the hope of avoiding the violence that usually follows one of their drunken evenings. Bad Bob (Ray Meagher) finds him, drags him ... [read more]
Undercover headquarters (1998)
Ellen ‘Mack’ Mackenzie (Anita Hegh) drives Peter Church (Peter Phelps) back to undercover headquarters after picking him up from the police station. He was 'arrested’ as part of a successful drug sting where he played the buyer. Church is still ... [read more]
Moonlighting (1978)
Pamela Taylor (Rowena Wallace) tells daughter Gayle (Jo-Anne Moore) that her shoplifting charges have been dropped. She has had the family lawyer intervene, using her wealthy father’s influence, despite her husband Glenn’s wishes that they follow the usual legal process. ... [read more]
‘The last Tasmanian’ (2008)
Narrator Rachel Perkins recounts Truganini’s concerns about her burial and the resting place of her body after her death. Darlene Mansell, historian Professor Marcia Langton of the Yiman-Bidjara Nation, and writer Bruce Pascoe of Boonwurrung Heritage, discuss Truganini’s government-given status ... [read more]
Surprise hats (2006)
Having created ‘surprise’ hats from bits and pieces from the Useful Box, Justine (Clarke) and Rhys (Muldoon) count down from three before presenting the hats to each other. They then put on their hats and sing ‘Where did you get ... [read more]
Optimism (1996)
Narrator and filmmaker Les McLaren speaks about filming in other cultures not being contentious in the 1970s. Filmmakers like Gary Kildea were influenced by the cinéma vérité techniques of the time and learning new ways of making films. Dennis O’Rourke ... [read more]
‘I hope they’re worth it’ (2000)
Trang (Deborah Le) helps in the garment factory and watches as her mother Trieu (Nguyen Thi Ngoc Hien), Uncle Le (Hieu Phan), Yen (My Lingh Thi Nguyen) and Linh (Suong Tran) work and chat. Trang also helps look after baby ... [read more]
‘My place’ (1988)
This clip features time-based portraits of patrons in an Erskineville pub and residents of an aged care facility in Campsie, Sydney. [read more]
Escape to Earth (2000)
The opening titles introduce us to Cybergirl (Ania Stepien). The start of the episode sets up Cybergirl’s arrival, her pursuit by replicants Isaac (Ric Anderson) and Xanda (Jennifer Congram), and introduces Jackson Campbell (Craig Horner) and his father Hugh (Mark ... [read more]
‘Show me to the officer’s dugout’ (2010)
Captain Woodward (Brendan Cowell) asks the young shell-shock victim Private Tiffin (Harrison Gilbertson) to take him from the miners’ underground HQ to the officers’ dugout. [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]
‘So where are youse from?’ (2008)
Tarek (Les Chantery) and Nabil (Buddy Dannoun) buy drinks for two glamorous Caucasian Australian women in a trendy inner-city nightclub, but their attempts at small-talk are strained, especially when it comes to the subject of their Lebanese Muslim heritage. Later, ... [read more]
‘Feel like going back home’ (2009)
Willy (Rocky McKenzie), Uncle Tadpole (Ernie Dingo), Annie (Missy Higgins) and Slippery (Tom Budge) travel north to Broome. In the combi they sing the Pigram Brothers’s song 'Feel Like Going Back Home’. Stopping for fuel Willy meets Roadhouse Betty (Magda ... [read more]
‘All I have to offer you is me’ (2009)
Delilah (Marissa Gibson) nurses Samson (Rowan McNamara) back to health. She bathes him in the water trough, gives him fresh clothes to wear and makes him a meal. As Samson sits in the wheelchair listening to music on the radio, ... [read more]
‘One penny per tintinnabulation’ (1956)
Reverend Lambeth (Ralph Richardson) stops to top up his overheating car radiator and is greeted by Smiley (Colin Petersen) and his best friend Joey (Bruce Archer). Smiley has a bruised cheek from a fight; the Reverend approves of what he ... [read more]
A delivery to King Billy (1956)
The crooked publican has tricked Smiley (Colin Petersen) into making a delivery of opium to the blacks’ camp across the river. This is supposed to be 'out of bounds’ to whites, but Smiley has clearly been there before. He gives ... [read more]
Street life in Rimside (2003)
At a loose end, Beau takes a stroll through the streets of Rimside. [read more]
‘Polite circles’ (1970)
John wants to remove his father as head of the Masons’ newspaper and needs his brothers to support his plan. His wife Kathy (Anne Haddy) meets with his brother David (Kevin Miles) to try and get his vote. David then ... [read more]
