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Street life in Rimside (2003)

At a loose end, Beau takes a stroll through the streets of Rimside. [read more]

Art class (1983)

A strict art teacher (Julia Blake) patrols her nude-drawing class offering peremptory advice until she reaches Charles (Norman Kaye). When she admonishes him rudely for including flowers in his composition, Charles fires back at her. [read more]

What you missed last time (1999)

Host Eddie McGuire recaps yesterday’s episode and the fortunes of its contestants, including carry-over contestant Rick. Opening titles follow after which Eddie briefly explains the format of the show and reminds viewers where Rick is in the game and what ... [read more]

Portrait of Allan (1999)

This clip features William Yang’s monologue about discovering his friend Allan has AIDS. Yang tells Allan’s story through photographic portraits of Allan as his succumbs to the disease. [read more]

A real stinker (1999)

David Hannay speaks in interview about the critics and newspaper headlines. Harbutt and David Stratton speak about the times in which Stone was released. Hannay, Harbutt, bikies and actors speaking about the ‘real’ responses to the film is interspersed with ... [read more]

Don Bradman (c1931)

Don Bradman demonstrates his batting technique, executing a 'pull shot’, an 'off drive’ and a 'leg glance’. He is filmed from a number of different angles both in front of and behind the wicket, in slow motion and at standard ... [read more]

‘The human factor’ (2001)

At the skyscraping headquarters of Centabank in Melbourne, chief executive officer Simon O’Reilly (Anthony LaPaglia) gets a grilling from the board chairman (Robert van Mackelenberg). He gives Simon three months to improve his forecasts for profit and growth. In his ... [read more]

‘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]

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]

‘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]

Cremation (1988)

The workers explain the cremation process in explicit detail. [read more]

School bullies (1987)

Danny (Noah Taylor) gets a dunking from classmates for writing secret love poetry; Trevor (Ben Mendelsohn) rescues him and wins favour from his love interest, Freya (Loene Carmen). [read more]

Ricco (2004)

At school, Ricco stands with his hands drooped over an outside freshwater tap. He introduces himself to the audience, and the other main characters of the documentary soon after. [read more]

Looking for Mr Holt (1967)

This is mute unedited black-and-white footage showing members of the beach party retracing their steps soon after losing sight of Mr Holt. [read more]

The children’s plays (1986)

Kylie Tennant talks about how she came to write her collection of children’s plays. [read more]

‘I won’t let you go!’ (1978)

Laura (Susannah Fowle) and Evelyn (Hilary Ryan) make up after a big fight. Evelyn takes Laura into her bed and comforts her. Next day, Laura interrogates her friend about seeing the headmistress, Mrs Gurley (Sheila Helpmann). She confronts Evelyn about ... [read more]

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