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Tracey McBean - Episode 6, Series One, Multiplication (2001)
Child inventor Tracey McBean (voiced by Roslyn Oades) loves a challenge, and when her friend Shamus (voiced by Anthony Hayes) needs to be in two different places at the same time, this isn’t a problem for an intrepid genius. Tracey ... [read more]
Splendid Fellows (1934)
Monty Ralston (Frank Leighton), amateur aviator and dissolute son of an English shipping magnate, is shipped off to Australia in an effort to reform him. After almost getting arrested at a two-up game, he and his manservant Thompson (Leo Franklin) ... [read more]
Mullet (2001)
Eddie ‘Mullet’ Maloney (Ben Mendelsohn) returns to the small coastal town where he grew up after three years in the city. Rebellious and turbulent as a youth, he is now even more lost, unsure if he should stay or go. ... [read more]
All About Olive (2004)
Filmmaker Mike Rubbo takes 105-year-old Olive Riley back to her childhood home in Broken Hill, western NSW, to talk about her life. Rubbo enlists Olive’s help to faithfully recreate scenes from Olive’s early life, using locals dressed in period ... [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]
Mr Squiggle and Friends – Cheer Up (1990)
The episode opens with Reg (Mikel Robins) and Bill Steamshovel (Norman Hetherington) discussing rain, which would make Gus the Snail happy but Bill unhappy (because he rusts). They then cheer each other up with some riddles. Rebecca (Hetherington) prepares a ... [read more]
Moodeitj Yorgas (1988)
Made during the 1980s, Moodeitj Yorgas is an experimental documentary by Tracey Moffatt on prominent Indigenous women. Moffatt uses her experience as a visual artist to make a film that is somewhat experimental and unconventional about the strength of Aboriginal ... [read more]
Albion, Douglas: Children’s Party (c1921)
A home movie filmed by the Albion family of a children’s Christmas party in the 1920s. Most of the footage focuses on five-year-old Wally and takes place over a single afternoon. The three minutes of 35 mm silent footage ... [read more]
Sugar Mills, Nambour (1899)
This actuality footage shows a horse-drawn tramway of cane arriving at a conveyor belt at a sugar mill in Nambour, Queensland. The cane is trimmed and carried by conveyor belt into the mill for crushing. [read more]
Terrain in South East Asia (1964)
This is an army training film containing a detailed study of the terrain of Thailand and Malaysia (then called Malaya). [read more]
Snowtown (2010)
Snowtown is an account of the infamous Snowtown, or Bodies in the Barrels, murders, named after the discovery of eight bodies in an empty bank vault in the South Australian town of Snowtown in May 1999. Two more bodies were ... [read more]
Peter Nicholson Animations – Gough’s World Tour (1974)
Political cartoonist Peter Nicholson satirises Gough Whitlam as he heads off on a world tour following a record anti-Labor vote in the Queensland State elections. [read more]
Blackbuster (2012)
Rowdy punters at a kooky Queensland pub stir an unusual awakening in pirated-DVD dealer Kainen (Jeremy Ambrum). As his crush grows for Tanika (Naomi Bowly), the daughter of the publican (Martin Sacks), his uncontrollable imagination takes us on a ... [read more]
CNNNN: Chaser Non-stop News Network – Lunchgate (2002)
CNNNN: Chaser Non-stop News Network is a fictional 24-hour Australian news channel mimicking the formats of shows like US television’s CNN and Fox News. The show is presented as an 'interruption’ in the ABC's usual programming, to ... [read more]
Money Movers (1979)
On the day that one of his armoured cars is robbed, Lionel Darcy (Frank Wilson) receives an anonymous tip off that his multi-million dollar counting house will soon be hit. A corrupt detective (Alan Cassell) passes this information to crime ... [read more]
Idiot Box (1996)
Mick (Jeremy Sims) and Kev (Ben Mendelsohn) – bored, unemployed and aimless in the western suburbs of Sydney – decide to rob a bank, more or less for the fun of it. They’ve seen it done in countless movies and ... [read more]
Hey Sista! (2001)
Fourteen-year-old Lisa Canavada (Phaedra Nicolaidis) struggles to find her place in the world after her father, Remo (Michael Futcher), has an accident and forces her to change schools. Her agony is compounded when her hair turns curly when all she ... [read more]
Child Soldiers (2002)
There is a minimum of 300,000 child soldiers in the world. The documentary takes an intimate look at children fighting in Uganda, Sudan, Myanmar, Colombia and Sierra Leone. The film features historical footage, interviews with child soldiers and their families ... [read more]
Living with Happiness (2001)
A mother (voiced by Sigrid Thornton) cannot sleep, obsessing about misfortunes that could befall her and her baby son. Thinking of the sea calms her, but the morning brings more dreadful disasters, all of them imagined. A visit to the ... [read more]
Corroboree (1950)
This is an orchestral suite for a ballet by Australian composer John Antill, first recorded in 1950 by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. [read more]
