Titles tagged with ‘country towns’
16 titles - sorted by title / by year
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An AIM Patrol (1927)
During the winter of 1927, Australian Inland Mission (AIM) patrolling officer Reverend Andrew Barber and AIM medical adviser Dr George Simpson travelled over 12,800 kilometres through the central ...
A Big Country – The White Rose (1979)
Frank Bourke is ‘The White Rose’ – the dance band known and loved throughout country New South Wales.
Cenotaph (1993)
The documentary looks at the effect of the First World War on the New South Wales country town of Hay. Seven women and 641 men went to the ...
Doesn’t Everybody Want a Golden Guitar (1995)
Filmed during the 1995 Tamworth Country Music Festival, the documentary is a tribute to Australian country music and the performers and fans that follow country music. The film ...
Flat (2002)
A short drama about the day in a life of a young teenager, who captures Alice Springs through a video camera given to her by her mostly absent ...
Four Corners – We’ll All Be Rooned (1982)
Reporter Jim Downes takes us into the wheat belt in the marginal country of Coonamble, near Dubbo in NSW. The outback is now entering its fourth year of ...
The Fringe Dwellers (1986)
A young Aboriginal girl dreams of life beyond the blacks’ camp that sits on the fringe of white society.
Historic Beechworth (1971)
This home movie filmed by Alan Bresnahan shows scenery of the town and surrounding countryside at Beechworth. The main street is shown, featuring the Tanswell’s Commercial Hotel. This ...
Hoyts and Studebaker Cinema Advertisement: Touring Talkie Show (c1929)
This silent advertisement promotes the new ‘Touring Talkie Show’ truck operated by Hoyts – with sponsorship from Studebaker Car Corporation and the Shell Oil Company.
Modern Love (2006)
City businessman John (Mark Constable) inherits a remote farm from his uncle Tom (Don Barker), a recluse said to have committed suicide. With wife Emily (Victoria Hill) and ...
Outback Opera, La Boheme Tour (2002)
Opera Australia’s OzOpera Tour took the opera La Boheme to country Victoria and South Australia. The camera follows the 22-stop tour and records the singers, musicians and technical ...
The Picture Show Man (1977)
In the last days of silent movies, tight-fisted showman Maurice Pym (John Meillon), brings cinema to NSW country towns with his horse-drawn travelling picture show. His son Larry ...
Rebels With a Cause (1994)
The film looks at Cecil Waters and his unorthodox methods of bringing up his three sons on a farm on the Central Coast of NSW. Ces rules the ...
Shifting Shelter 3 (2005)
Shifting Shelter 3 is the latest instalment in a documentary series shot over a ten year period. Reminiscent of the British 7 Up Series, the Shifting Shelter series ...
Snowy Hydro – The Jindabyne Story (c1965)
Produced in 1964–5 by the SMHEA photographic unit (Harry Malcolm et al.), the film tells the story of the moving of the town of Jindabyne to make way ...
Summer City (1977)
In the early 1960s, Sandy (John Jarratt), Boo (Steve Bisley), Scollop (Mel Gibson) and Robbie (Phil Avalon) drive to the beaches north of Sydney for a surfing weekend. ...
