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Clip description
We are introduced to the residents of Union Street on an 'ordinary’ Sunday. The odour of cooking wafts from a Greek household to that of an elderly Anglo-Australian woman who wrinkles her nose in distaste. Her cat jumps through a window to stalk her middle-class neighbours’ caged parrot. While James Armstrong-Taylor (voiced by James Manche) shoos it away with a copy of the Financial Times, his wife Patricia’s (Trish Starrs) bathroom redecorating is interrupted by a basketball bounced on the adjoining wall. The ball comes to rest inside the squatters’ building, but fails to wake any of its sleeping residents. Voice-over narration in this clip is by Andrew Denton.
Curator’s notes
The noises and aggravations of urban living are humorously conveyed in this clip. A train rattles past the row of houses, causing them to rock on their foundations. We are cleverly transported from one home interior to the next by movement: of wafting smells, cats jumping, and balls bouncing.
