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A very close friendship (1976)
Penny (Briony Behets) and Dee (Judy Morris) have gone to a house by the sea for a weekend alone but a succession of men passes through, including two men whose car has broken down. When they leave, Penny assumes that ... [read more]
What have those little monsters been telling you? (1978)
Laura (Susannah Fowle) joins the other girls for an illicit midnight feast, with her cake and other supplies stolen from the kitchen. Maria (Sigrid Thornton) terrifies them with stories of what happens in childbirth. During a break in her piano ... [read more]
‘She’s sincerely talented’ (1989)
After his wife has walked out, Gordon (Jon Darling) arrives at Kay’s door, looking for help from his daughters. Sweetie (Geneviève Lemon) becomes anxious and self-conscious at the sight of him. Gordon later defends her, when Kay (Karen Colston) and ... [read more]
‘This is not easy’ (1996)
The mother (Celine O’Leary) sits watching her daughter’s angry drawing. She has come to tell her that her father is moving out. The child carries on a conversation that her mother can’t hear – a series of denials. Her father ... [read more]
‘There’s nothing going to stop him.’ (2002)
The price paid by Peter Andrews and his family for his pursuit of an idea has been enormous. Andrews, his wife and his son describe that time when Peter’s obsession lost them the farm and his marriage. [read more]
The rapist label (2003)
In 1989 Laura Henkel was raped in South Africa. Suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, Laura is additionally hurt that her son blames her for not identifying the man as a rapist and thus preventing the crime. Laura’s son, Michael is ... [read more]
The wonders of Rinso (c1943)
Henry is a bachelor who lives alone in a small apartment. He has a ‘lady help’ who does his cooking and cleaning but will not wash his clothes. Henry is a ‘natty dresser’. But because he can’t get the laundry ... [read more]
What’s wrong with being Greek? (c1988)
Nikos feeds his birds and Sophia plays with makeup before the family sits down to dinner. On their way to school, Nikos tells Sophia it’s about time she started doing her own maths homework. [read more]
Inheriting the earth (1988)
Now a widower, Richard Eastwick’s (Hugo Weaving) son, David (Peter Phelps), had gone to fight in the First World War over his father’s objections. He is killed in action and Richard is heartbroken that he will no longer have an ... [read more]
The fever breaks (1987)
Buster (Rebecca Smart) has a high fever, the result of a bad cold caught while out on the road in the rain, and she’s in danger of dying. Lily (Noni Hazlehurst) thinks she should be in hospital but Mac (Bryan ... [read more]
Hey Shamus! (2001)
The little Shamuses go on a fun spree while the anxious real Shamus and Tracey search for them. [read more]
You must be joking! (1998)
Julia’s new friend Eddie (John Brumpton) takes her down the road to buy her an ice cream. The lady serving calls Julia (Heather Rose) ‘poor little thing’ to Eddie and charges him $6, at which Julia types into her voice ... [read more]
The Flack family (1994)
Ort Flack (Jamie Croft) plays guitar while his mother, Alice (Lisa Harrow), and sister Tegwyn (Amanda Douge), hang out the washing. Ort’s father, Sam (Mark Fairall), says goodbye to his family and leaves for work. [read more]
A new kidney (2002)
Photographs of baby Mariah attached to a kidney dialysis machine. Mariah’s parents Angie and David from the Kamilaroi clan talk about supporting her during this period. A doctor tells us the function of the kidneys, what happens when someone contracts ... [read more]
‘The wide brown land’ (1958)
Dorothea Mackellar recites the first stanza of her most famous poem, recorded in 1958. [read more]
‘The young and the bloody useless’ (1996)
Lani (Robyn Loau), the bottle shop girl, stops Mick (Jeremy Sims) as he leaves the pub. They discuss poetry, which is Mick’s hobby. Lani’s brother wants to know who she’s talking to. At the Punchbowl bank, two detectives (Graeme Blundell ... [read more]
‘At least I’m better off than you’ (1998)
Madelaine (Joey Kennedy) starts feeding Julia (Heather Rose). She is so busy talking to Julia about her problems in attracting a reliable boyfriend that she doesn’t notice she is feeding Julia too fast. When Julia chokes on the food and ... [read more]
Menzies addresses the troops, Palestine (1941)
This clip from a Menzies home movie begins with the Prime Minister’s visit to one of the field hospitals in the Middle East during his trip to meet the troops in 1941. We see nurses, medical staff and injured troops ... [read more]
Making a warehouse in the salt mines (c1943)
This clip from a colour home movie filmed by Ernest Gourlay in approximately 1951 shows men constructing a hanger or warehouse with a vaulted roof. It shows men bolting together and erecting the trusses. This is followed by panning shots ... [read more]
Drowning the sorrow (1996)
A young boy lays unconscious on the sand. He is helped to his feet by his mother (Roslyn Trillot-Watson) and father (Ted Hopkins). A white woman (Jo-Anna Lawson) takes young Waxy (Jarred Wall) by the hand, and leads him towards ... [read more]
