Titles tagged with ‘comedy’

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Aeroplane Jelly Advertisement: Spaceship (1959)

This black-and-white animated television commercial for Aeroplane Jelly shows the arrival on earth of two aliens who have come to discover what Aeroplane Jelly is like. When given ...

The Aunty Jack Show – Series One (1972)

Sketch comedy interlaced with musical sequences, featuring Aunty Jack (Grahame Bond) the self-styled queen of Wollongong and a cast of glorious misfits including Thin Arthur (Rory O’Donoghue), Aunty ...

The Aunty Jack Show – Series Two (1974)

In this second series of the sketch comedy show most of the old favourites return from the first series. These include Neil and Errol (Grahame Bond and Rory ...

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Bananas in Pyjamas – Banana Breakfast (1999)

In this story, narrated by Karina Kelly, Bananas in Pyjamas B1 (Ken Radley) and B2 (Nicholas Opolski) decide to make a surprise breakfast for the Teddies, Morgan (Jeremy ...

Browne, George: Our movie memories 1928–1934 (1928)

This silent black-and-white 9.5 mm home movie compilation by amateur filmmaker George Browne shows the Browne family and friends enacting Kate of the Cactus Country, Shakespeare’s Romeo and ...

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Family Antics (1945)

A curious documentary featuring the talents of an acrobatic father and son, and their three terriers.

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The Genie From Down Under – It’s my Opal … (and I’ll cry if I want to) (1995)

Posh English schoolgirl The Hon Penelope Townes (Alexandra Milman), possessor of the magical opal, is magically whisked away by her Australian genies, Bruce (Rhys Muldoon) and his young ...

Gillies (1987)

The documentary is a biography of comedian Max Gillies. The film cuts between performance pieces caricaturing public figures like Bob Hawke and Ronald Reagan, and Gillies’ private life ...

The Gunston Tapes (1975)

From the unbelieving Sally Struthers to Sir John Gorton and Warren Beatty, Norman Gunston (Garry McDonald) became Australia’s star interviewer whose rich and famous subjects had no idea ...

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Harmony Row (1933)

Tommy Wallace (George Wallace), down on his luck, decides to join the Victoria Police. He’s threatened, fooled and bullied by the thugs of Harmony Row, a tough inner-city ...

A Hero’s Reward (1950)

An amateur family film that uses a Charlie Chaplin type character to create a comic story of robbery, rescue and love. Basher Bill (Michael Bidencope), newly escaped from ...

His Royal Highness (1932)

Tommy Dodds, an unemployed country boy in the city (George Wallace), gets a job as a stagehand in a Melbourne theatre. A rival hits him on the head ...

Horace and Tina – Settling In (2000)

This is episode 2 of the 26 part series. Lauren’s (Jasmine Ellis) life is a total mess. A Canadian, she misses her friends and hates living in Australia. ...

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The Kid Stakes (1927)

Fatty Finn (‘Pop’ Ordell) is the scruffy six-year-old leader of a gang of kids in the dockside suburb of Woolloomooloo in Sydney. Fatty enters his pet goat Hector ...

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Li’l Elvis and the Truckstoppers – Caught in a Trap (1997)

Li’l Elvis (Stig Wemyss) is sick of performing Elvis music everyday in his parent’s roadhouse, but his parents Grace (Lynda Gibson) and Len (David Cotter) rely on him ...

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Magical Powers (1936)

A young man (Doug Rosenthal) who falls asleep in his front garden finds magical powers that allow him to conjure a new car, move furniture and create a ...

More Winners – The Big Wish (1990)

The faeries in the Enchanted Realm are in trouble. The Charter of the Grand Master states that they must give seven wishes to humans every 100 years or ...

Mortified – Taylor’s DNA (2006)

This is the first episode of the series. Self conscious eleven-year-old Taylor Fry (Marny Kennedy) finds her crazy parents Don (Andrew Blackman) and Glenda (Rachel Blakely) so embarrassing ...

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Round the Twist – Series One – Skeleton on the Dunny (1989)

Eccentric sculptor Tony Twist (Richard Moir), and his three children – thirteen-year-old twins Linda (Tamsin West) and Pete (Sam Vandenberg), and eight-year-old Bronson (Rodney McLennan) – move from ...

Round the Twist – Series One – Spaghetti Pig Out (1989)

Chaos reigns after a bolt of lightning hits the Twist family’s video remote control – it now works on people! Unfortunately Gribble Junior (Lachlan Jeffrey) gets hold of ...

Round the Twist – Series Two – Nails (1992)

Linda (Joelene Crnogorac) is attracted to Andrew (Eamonn Kelly), a mysterious new boy at school who never removes his gloves. Andrew lives on an island with his grumpy ...

Round the Twist – Series Two – Next Time Round (1992)

Pete has been hypnotised by Linda and every time someone says the word ‘now’ he behaves like a chicken for ten seconds. Unfortunately, Linda can’t undo the hypnosis ...

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Shell Animated Commercial: Poster Man (1960)

In this animated advertisement for Shell Motor Oil, a cartoon ‘poster man’ comically attempts to secure a Shell poster on the side of a building.

Strike Me Lucky (1934)

Broke and behind his rent during the Great Depression, ‘Mo’ McIsaac (Roy Rene) tries to find work to support a young orphan girl he finds dancing for pennies ...

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Wicked Science – Episode 1, The Gift (2003)

On their first day back at Sandy Bay High School, Toby (André de Vanny) and Elizabeth (Bridget Neval) are zapped by a strange ray and become instant scientific ...

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