From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 4:06 AM

From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 4:00 AM

Over footage of her daily activities, Christine Waters, 35 year-old stepmother to three teenage sons, talks about her life with Ces. She acknowledges that she went against her parent’s wishes when she married, at 17, a man 22 years older.

From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 3:55 AM

Back on the streets and while under the influence of heroin, Cheryl tells us her story. She was raped by her father at 10 years of age, had a child and her mother threw her out of home at aged twelve. She didn’t want to live anymore and contemplated suicide. She tearfully pleads with teenage girl...

From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 3:50 AM

A pig is slaughtered and disembowelled at the abattoir. Its carcass is carved up and joins dozens of others in a refrigerated storeroom.

From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 3:39 AM

From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 3:31 AM

With the aid of cartoons, an argument is made which illustrates the chain of supply for manufacture and the associated costs. Manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer each take their own profits before passing on the inflated costs to the consumer. Figures show how an inflated cost ‘quickly snowball...

From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 3:28 AM

Botany resident and member of the Botany Independent Action Group Nancy Hillier reflects on her childhood growing up in a ‘child’s paradise’ in the 1930s harbour suburb. The impact of growing industry and a proposal for a coal loader in the area motivates Hillier to become an active citizen in vo...

From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 3:16 AM

We see a full Catholic ceremony, and hear that ninety per cent of Poles are Catholics, and that 40 years of communism did not destroy their faith. This is followed by a plain communist-style civil wedding taking seven minutes.

From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 3:08 AM

The piano sounding board is constructed. The cast-iron frame is laid down while men fix it into place. On another machine, a man spins base wires for the piano strings. This is shown in detail with three different shots. The eyelet machine is also featured. Men manually string the sounding board ...

From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 2:56 AM

Michael’s father told young Michael that the world was divided into three groups, ‘fools, crooks and gentlemen’. By deciding to be an artist (theatre director) young Michael fell into the fool category. His father argued medicine would give him ‘something to fall back on’. However, Michael follow...

From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 2:53 AM

From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 2:36 AM

The Australian opera is on tour with La Boheme. Musetta sings one of the operas most popular arias from Act II. In it, she is trying to reignite her lover Marcello’s passion.

From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 2:24 AM

The camera pans across a large crowd gathered in the Malvern tram depot as a man standing on a spiral staircase addresses the audience. There are trams in a shed in the background. The camera films the first Prahran-Malvern tram pulling out into Glenferrie Road. The camera adjusts its angle to fo...

From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 2:13 AM

From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 2:04 AM

Opal miner Mark Jackson takes his opal find to his father Stuart, who is a licensed valuer and opal cutter. Cutting and polishing rough stones can increase or decrease their value.

From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 1:56 AM

Walking through the mining fields, Norman tells us how the old people used to work the fields, but the young people don’t work anymore, and drink too much grog. Norman says that white people arrived with a noodling machine, and this allowed them to get a larger portion of the opals. Norman speaks...

From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 1:38 AM

In this clip we are introduced to Bob, Roy, Mick and Ann, all over sixty years of age. They share their thoughts on sexuality and relationships in their later years, including life as a widower, caring for a partner, changes in relationships over time and the positive aspects to ageing.

From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 1:27 AM

Outback adventurer Keith F Adams hunts and skins a crocodile. He cuts the croc open to reveal the leg of a cow that it has killed. A poisonous taipan slithers by.

From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 1:21 AM

From: australian screen on Fri, Feb 08 2008 1:11 AM

Twelve year-old James is suffering a low blood sugar attack. His mother has to administer glucagon to him.