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Alice without Nanna (2006)
Over a shot of Alice Springs Aaron talks about the town. Alice Springs isn’t the same to the Pedersen brothers without their Nanna. Aaron and Vinnie, sitting in the park, recall the violence of their childhood, and the experience of ... [read more]
‘The time is now and the car is Holden’ (1966)
A woman lies on a beach, dreamily relaxing under her hat. A Holden HR sedan is parked on the sand nearby. The woman runs to the car, which is filmed from different angles to show off its new exterior and ... [read more]
‘My good woman’ (1972)
Dorrie (Pat McDonald) and Herb Evans (Ron Shand) receive a visit from the snobbish Claire Houghton (Thelma Scott) who unwittingly gives Dorrie a brand new title. [read more]
Australian cinema is silenced (1996)
During the 1950s, Australian feature film production ground to a halt, leaving newsreels as one of the few cinematic records of Australian life of the period. Iconic ‘50s newsreel footage plays in slow-motion to a rendition of 'The Road to ... [read more]
‘It was my 98th day on the wagon’. (1981)
Michael Stacey (Ray Barrett) introduces himself and his milieu – the beautiful beach of Surfer’s Paradise on the Gold Coast and a town full of ugly buildings. He is a once drunken, now disgraced, former senior cop trying to write ... [read more]
Inside the sawdust arena (1949)
The procession of performers and circus acts passes by the camera to enter the big top arena including horses, clowns and elephants. Some of the acts are filmed including a female lion tamer, a cycling clown, performing elephants, and barebacked ... [read more]
Meet the Ferals (1994)
Opening titles introduce the Ferals. Modigliana the cat (voiced and operated by Mal Heap) and Rattus (voiced and operated by David Collins) are fighting again. Mixy (voiced and operated by Emma De Vries) the rabbit interrupts to ask why. Derryn ... [read more]
‘Women are like eskimos’ (1984)
Helen’s mother (Betty Lucas) tells her daughter (Wendy Hughes) not to be selfish – she should go back to her husband. In the hospital where he’s recovering from an overdose of pills, John (John Hargreaves) endures a visit from the ... [read more]
‘You have killed me’ (1984)
John (John Hargreaves) remembers the birth of their child Lucy, in a series of happy flashbacks that turn bitter when he imagines his wife Helen (Wendy Hughes) and her lover Tom (David Cameron). John rushes to find her, at the ... [read more]
Rugged cross (1998)
The clip opens with billowing curtains, a statuette of Christ and the close-up of a young albino girl (Melissa Middleton). In flashback the young albino girl closes her eyes as her mother (Christine Palmer) smears her with mud. A cross ... [read more]
A safe central spot (1986)
Alone in her flat at night, overlooking the harbour, Liz reads Marge Piercy, talks about her psychiatrist, and laments the loss by theft of Steve’s poems. Evoking the mind-states depicted in the film Gaslight, she ponders the vagaries of her ... [read more]
‘Take a gig at the sheila!’ (1946)
Two months into the drive, the mob passes through a canyon where they are observed by tribal Aborigines on the surrounding cliffs. Dan McAlpine (Chips Rafferty) waves his hat and receives a greeting in return. The mob then arrives at ... [read more]
‘They look after you down here’ (1976)
We see waterside workers using machinery. The voice-over describes how mechanisation has greatly reduced the hard labour required for the job and the number of employees needed. Current 'wharfies’ confess to little knowledge of 'the old days’. [read more]
‘Jack was different’ (2001)
David Meredith (Matt Day) visits his brother Jack Meredith (Simon Lyndon) who is at an army training camp before being sent off to fight the great fight in some foreign land. Tragedy strikes, just as David is discussing his brother’s ... [read more]
Dependency (1986)
Over photographs of happier times, both during her relationship with Steve, and from the time before, Liz quotes her mother and some feminist writers and deliberates on her struggle with dependency on a lover, and on the general nature of ... [read more]
‘Do the Rat’ (1994)
Keith the Koala (voiced and operated by Mal Heap), Kylie the Kangaroo (voiced and operated by Kelly Wallwork) and Robbie (Kylie Hogart) perform an appalling rendition of ‘Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport’ at the talent show hosted by the Ferals’ ... [read more]
What is great writing? (2001)
Tensions in the newsroom come to the surface when Bernard Brewster (Jack Thompson) singles out David Meredith (Matt Day) for praise, citing an article that he has written in defiance of instructions from news editor Curtis Condon (Denis Moore). David’s ... [read more]
Zigzag (1978)
Essie Coffey instructs some young people on how to track animals. They are looking for porcupine tracks, and finally find one. A porcupine never walks straight says Essie, but always walks in a zig zag. They follow the porcupine to ... [read more]
‘The dark is following me’ (1987)
In desperation, Ruby Rose (Melita Jurisic) decides to hike to her home valley, after seven years of isolation in the Tasmanian Highlands. She feeds the animals and leaves a note for Henry, and another for Gem, promising to come back. ... [read more]
‘The average man’ (1956)
This clip explains the methods used to design the new model FE Holden. A GMH employee holds a transparent plastic life-size model to demonstrate how the 'average man’ determines the proportions of the car’s interior. The car’s ... [read more]
