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Porridge to the rescue (2005)
Stanley has gone to get some of his mother’s infamously awful, rock-hard porridge. It’s the one thing that doesn’t dissolve in the acid. Unfortunately he meets the bullies the Lupin Lupes again, just as he is about to pour the ... [read more]
Word play with Lotis (1992)
Poss (Erin Pratten) and Kim (Maria Nguyen) go into the lift, which is personified as Lotis, an artificial intelligence that talks to the children and can take them anywhere. When the girls talk about riding, Lotis opens the lift doors ... [read more]
I’m looking for someone like you (1998)
The five kids – Mike (Nikolai Nikolaeff), Pi (Cassandra Magrath), Bec (Frances Wang), Marcello (Paul Pantano) and Ram (Damien Bodie) independently discover the encrypted message in the web and intrigued, they each try to break it. One by one they ... [read more]
‘I have a wife’ (2003)
Sandy (Toni Collette) touches Hiromitsu’s face as he’s sleeping. They are in bed together. In the morning, at a petrol station, she sees a picture of his family in his wallet. He tells her that he’s married, with two children. ... [read more]
A daring and unusual film (2006)
Margaret Pomeranz is reviewing the new Rolf de Heer film Ten Canoes. Excerpts from the film illustrate her words. [read more]
Everyone in Australia stands upside down! (2002)
Gregory has placed magnets in his shoes and hat so that he won’t fall into outer space when he gets to Australia. Unfortunately he sets off the alarms at the airport and the family is pulled aside for questioning. [read more]
Shot in the hat (1947)
The children have stolen the horses, food and walking boots of the thieves and laid a trap. As the three men walk slowly out of a box canyon, Snow (Nicky Yardley) directs the others with hand signals. They roll boulders ... [read more]
The job interview (1974)
A dramatised scene from the diary memories of Percy Deane (Harold Hopkins), who became secretary to Prime Minister WM Hughes (Martin Vaughan). [read more]
The legend of the Devils Pool (2005)
Annie Wonga, Yidinji elder, tells the Dreaming story of the Devils Pool. [read more]
Thinking about hormones (1995)
The man (Syd Brisbane) laughs at the way his life is turning out, as the woman (Ulli Birvé) keeps changing locales, at her whim, from desert to forest to mountaintop. She suggests they need to have ‘a relationship’, for which ... [read more]
Lester’s story (1991)
Veteran trainer Lester (Gandhi MacIntyre) tells young boxer Skip (Noah Taylor) about the injury that ended his career. [read more]
‘Invite me again, alone’ (2009)
In the wake of his brother Tom’s death, John Keats (Ben Whishaw) visits Mrs Brawne (Kerry Fox) and her children, Fanny (Abbie Cornish), Toots (Edie Martin) and Samuel (Thomas Brodie-Sangster). Fanny presents Keats with a pillowslip she has embroidered and ... [read more]
‘I come from the future’ (1987)
Geologist Annie (Nikki Coghill) helps wounded time traveller Petra (Carrie Fisher). Petra convinces Ballard (Tom Burlinson) to tell Annie about their mission. Annie tentatively agrees to help. [read more]
‘He’s a bloody Australian’ (1990)
Frank (Nicholas Eadie) and his son Ken (Christopher Parker) return home to find Mac (Chris Haywood) visiting. Mac tries talking to Ken in Japanese, angering Frank. His reaction upsets Aya, and she leaves the room. Frank, looking a little rueful, ... [read more]
‘I can’t help what I feel’ (1978)
Beth (Margaret Cameron) has left her husband and wants to live with her lover, Terry (George Shevtsov). Terry rejects the proposal, saying he does not feel the same way about Beth. [read more]
Everything like a dream (1965)
Nick (George Dixon) is on the run from the police. Margot (Janina Lebedew) and her father (Claude Thomas) stop to help. [read more]
‘Your stupid fungus is out of control’ (2007)
Cleo (Phoebe Tonkin) is sharing the surprise news with Lewis (Angus McLaren) that the magic wish potion works, when they are interrupted by a phone call summoning Lewis to join Emma (Claire Holt) and Rikki (Cariba Heine) at the café. ... [read more]
Painting the dunes (1992)
Peter Garrett visits the untouched Shoalwater area with Army major Sam Hassall. They examine the sands that are proposed for mining. The sand contains iluminite, rutile and titanium used in the manufacture of white paint. Footage of sandmining in New ... [read more]
Two sisters (2002)
Marnie (Carmen Glynn-Braun) is preparing breakfast for her younger sister (Savannah Glynn-Braun). The younger sister complains about being sick and says she does not want to go to school. Marnie ignores her protests, and walks her to the bus stop, ... [read more]
Castlecrag Estate (1927)
This clip from a silent black-and-white cinema advertisement from about 1927 for Castlecrag Estate, a new suburb overlooking Sydney’s Middle Harbour, shows panoramic shots of the surrounding scenery, a woman with a dog looking out to the harbour and newly ... [read more]
