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The Long Yard (2000)
An elderly man hits a bullock whilst driving at night on a country road in the Northern Territory. His four-wheel drive vehicle runs off the road and he is knocked unconscious. He crawls up the embankment and attempts to wave ... [read more]
Union Street (1990)
The multicultural residents of an inner-city street redecorate their houses in competition with a yuppie couple who are intent on financial gain. Consequently, the street attracts media publicity and becomes a tourist destination. Meanwhile, an application by a group of ... [read more]
Tiga (1987)
Animated images of the Tasmanian tiger are depicted in different environments: a zoo, suburbia and bushland, as local people recall their sightings of this now extinct animal. [read more]
Passionless Moments (1983)
Passionless Moments is a lighthearted series of vignettes sharing people’s fleeting thoughts. Jane Campion combines a serious documentary style with a whimsical look at the small moments people experience everyday. [read more]
The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill – A Windy Day (2005)
Bottle Top Bill (voiced by Graham Matters) and Corky the horse (voiced by Emma Jane Hyland) are doing the weekly washing on a windy day. When their clothes blow away in the wind, the two friends need a special flying ... [read more]
Full Frontal – Series 3 Episode 4 (1995)
Full Frontal is a sketch comedy show that followed the successful Fast Forward in format and style but with a new crop of writers and performers. [read more]
Message Stick – The Convincing Ground (2007)
This two-part documentary looks at the traditional, historic and contemporary stories associated with the massacre of up to 60 Aboriginal people by whalers at the Convincing Ground, near the coastal town of Portland, Victoria in the 1830s. [read more]
Weapons Research Establishment Project WRESAT (1967)
Produced by the Weapons Research Establishment (WRE) Film Unit, Department of Supply, this is a documentary record of the WRESAT Project – the launch of the first Australian satellite from Woomera on 29 November 1967. [read more]
They’re a Weird Mob (1966)
Nino Culotta (Walter Chiari), an Italian sports journalist, arrives in Australia to find his cousin’s new magazine for migrant Italians has folded. He gets a job as a builder’s labourer, learns to talk and drink like an Australian, and falls ... [read more]
Staines Down Drains – Once More Unto the Drains (2005)
Slipping down a plughole portal and shrinking as they go, germ-phobic Stanley Staines and his adventurous sister Mary Jane have discovered a yucky, germy and weirdly wonderful world in the drains below their home. There they find friends like Vegety ... [read more]
Lift Off – A Load of Old Rubbish (1992)
The theme of this episode is rubbish. It is in two separate 24-minute parts and has the usual Lift Off mix of live action, animation, puppetry music, documentary and fantasy. The main storyline in each part is about the Lift ... [read more]
Lift Off – That’s Not Fair – Part A (1992)
This is Part A of the episode, That’s Not Fair, following the Lift Off format that mixes live action, animation, puppetry, music, documentary and fantasy. The main storyline is about the Lift Off kids, interspersed with the other elements. Nipper ... [read more]
Faireez – A Chilling Plot (2005)
Quincy Questholler, Faireezia’s flying security guard, panics again! This time the weather has gone mad in sunny Faireezia, and it is snowing. Of course it is Jumpalina, the big-footed baddy in her floating castle, up to her tricks again. Wise ... [read more]
Efftee Studio Opening in Melbourne: Speech by Frank Forde (1931)
This short promotional film, made by Frank Thring Senior’s production company Efftee Film Productions, records a speech made by Frank M Forde, then Minister for Trade and Customs, at the opening of Efftee Film Studios and the screening of the ... [read more]
Arthur and the Square Knights of the Round Table - Episode 35 (1972)
Arthur and the Square Knights of the Round Table is a comical, Australian-made animation series based on the English legend of King Arthur. Episode 35 contains three main stories. In The Wrecker, King Arthur and Sir Lancelot discover the castle’s ... [read more]
The Woman Suffers (1918)
The Woman Suffers is a complicated silent melodrama of revenge and sexual betrayal, only part of which survives. In the first two reels, which have been lost, a woman caught in an abusive marriage runs away with her infant son ... [read more]
Wake in Fright (1971)
John Grant (Gary Bond) is the bored teacher at a one-room school in Tiboonda, a tiny railway junction on the far western plains of New South Wales. On his way to Sydney for Christmas, he stops overnight in Bundanyabba, a ... [read more]
Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
Mid-19th century England. Oscar Hopkins (Ralph Fiennes) is a trainee Anglican priest studying at Oxford University. Taken to the horse races by fellow student Wardley-Fish (Barnaby Kay), Oscar develops an uncontrollable passion for gambling. Despite giving his winnings to charity, ... [read more]
Those Who Love (1926)
Sir James Manton (Robert Purdie), a wealthy society figure, bribes Bébé Dorée (Sylvia Newland), a female dancer, to vanish from the life of his son Barry (William Carter). Abandoning his parents and their money, Barry becomes a wharf labourer and ... [read more]
King Billy’s First Car (1939)
In this animated advertisement for Super Shell, King Billy invents an animal-made and animal-powered car. [read more]
