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The recent Puberty Blues (2012) TV series reminds NFSA Television curator Frances Baldwin of watching the 1981 film version and receiving material from the film as an archivist in 1986.
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A family conference in a deserted café about what to do in the wake of the murder of two cops in which the brothers have been involved. Family matriarch Smurf (Jacki Weaver) reminds her criminal sons...
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Two best friends (played by Michelle Law and Liv Hewson) reinvent themselves after chronic illness. The series explores their hopes and aspirations, alongside their realities.
This clip provides a...
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This is a 30-second black-and-white television advertisement from 1959 for Cadbury’s Crunchie chocolate bar.
It features a group of performers, each holding a Crunchie bar, in a studio with a large...
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Nintendo released the first Game Boy in 1989. It benefited from durable construction and a long battery life and outsold many of its competitors.
Game Boy was sold with a bundle of games that...
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Joy portrays an evening in the life of a teenage girl, set in the neon world of a late-night shopping centre in Sydney.
Director Cate Shortland defltly creates an intense and complex portrait of the...
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Joe (Sam Worthington) and Heidi (Abbie Cornish) order dinner at a Chinese restaurant, after Joe’s mates have humiliated Heidi in the street outside.
Heidi asks him if he loves her. He evades the...
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At the local service station, Heidi (Abbie Cornish) inquires about a job. The young woman behind the counter, Bianca (Hollie Andrew) is curt and unfriendly.
Heidi buys a pair of red gloves and goes...
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Abbie Cornish was 21 years old when this film was made and the integrity and vulnerability of her performance is astonishing.
After an unhappy first night in Jindabyne Heidi (Abbie Cornish) returns...
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This TV commercial conjures up the 1960s par excellence, with a discotheque playing host to a young, groovy couple dancing under a glittering ball and eating Crunchie bars.
The clip shows a couple...