FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

Suburban street of rooftops and trees across suburb. Houses and home unit blocks from street. Newspaper articles relating to Green Valley and locals arriving for screening of films. Peter Weir addressing audience before screening and reading from negative press clippings. Audience listening. Hall darkening. Quicktime clip available.

Satire on news reports on Green Valley. Green Valley suburban street. Home occupant hiding behind shutters. Crying child, barbed wire, dumped car, ÒlonelyÓ people and deserted husband in wheelchair with 17 children. ÒDeserted wivesÓ walking in long line down suburban street pushing shopping trolleys. ÒAlcoholicsÓ, elderly women on street. Weir measuring small bare tree for comparison with other suburbs. ÒDesperateÓ female resident. Weir paddling raft under bridge through polluted water. Weir blowing whistle and occupants ÒevacuateÓ carrying luggage. Dog on lead and ÒevacueesÓ assembling on street. Bench with ÒKillaraÓ painted on it, railway platform with train. ÒRefugeesÓ from Green Valley disembark. Killara residents watching evacuees streaming down street. Woman holding cat rolling her eyes. Audience from Green Valley looking amused. Peter Weir on stage addressing them and introducing them to panel of Green Valley film makers on stage. Quicktime clip available.

Film by Green Valley local Ron Whittle. Rundown Balmain shopfronts, streets and parks. Container ship and crane.Children in concrete backyard. Playground with plank swing climbing frame and slippery dip. Balmain Post Office. Car down suburban cul-de-sac and houses. Woman holding baby stroking galah. Woman in laundry loading twin tub, children playing in backyard, woman hanging washing on line and Ron taking home movie of girl in backyard. Balmain pedestrian crossing on Darling Street. Balmain Leagues Club and Victoria Road, Rozelle. White Bay wharves, container ship Sydney Express. Street traffic, train pulling into station, signs for family and marriage counselling services. Family photographs. Local hospital. Children with dog on leash. Dog sitting in back of ute. Children riding minibike in backyard. Green Valley Hotel. Barbecue with Ron and family eating and socialising. Michael Wenden Community Pool exterior. Children on bikes and playing with dogs. Community Centre. Quicktime clip available.

Film by Green Valley resident Dot Toomey. Toomey setting out to show her typical day in Green Valley. Toomey sitting up in bed helping daughter and son prepare for school. Interview with Toomey. Children sitting around breakfast table eating cereal. Toomey making lunches and seeing children off to school. Toomey at son's soccer game. Boy wobbling front tooth. Small girl in crocheted poncho. Children come home from school in truck. Mothers and children gathered in woman's loungeroom discussing how the suburb has changed over the years. Party plan (premier party) in her house with presenter and her friends in attendance. Girl sitting on lounge sewing. Children at dinner table and woman sitting on lounge knitting and saying goodnight to children. Suburban fibro house at night. Quicktime clip available.

Film by Green Valley resident Frank Scambray. Waiting on railway station platform as train pulls in and Frank farewelling three of his children off to boarding school. Frank being taught to use movie camera in his house and footage of several of his children inside the house and wrestling in the backyard. Girl holding ginger cat and Frank with movie camera. Frank filming family friend's 21st birthday party showing speeches, cake cutting and guests. Frank and children outside local church. Frank calling housie game in local hall and participants at tables. Frank filming housie players. Daughters in kitchen and young son jumping into Frank's arms as he opens door. Quicktime clip available.

Film by Green Valley high school student Sandra Waterson. School play performed on hall stage with school student crowds watching. Sandra in school library with various groups of older students gathered around tables. Chess game at one table. Students' faces. Sandra at home with her parents brushing floor and eating dinner at table with parents and brother. Sandra working at small desk and sitting on bed with friend Sue arguing. Sandra and friend sitting on grassy slope as children play. Boy riding billy cart down hill. Sandra at home in mini-dress and towel wrapped around her head preparing to go out, drying hair with hairdryer hose. Sandra with neighbour's two children helping them with their school work in backyard. Boy printing out alphabet. Rooftops of Green Valley suburbs. Quicktime clip available.

Film by Green Valley locals Stephen Jurd and Wayne Emerson. Fast forward footage of Stephen and Wayne going door to door collecting friends on their way to school then similar footage in real time. People on their way to work and school. Long-haired senior boys in classroom and boys conducting science experiment. Boy being interviewed by friend about life in Green Valley. Chained sulphur-crested cockatoo. Friends Michael and Peter meeting up at block of flats and loading surfboards into panel van. Steve and Wayne interviewing middle-aged man with negative attitude to living in Green Valley then interviewing woman who loves it. Karate classes . Scout troupe with members of varying ages. Scout saluting and scouts binding timbers. Young man carrying surfboard, children, boys in classroom and football game. Children walking to school, young man's face. Quicktime clip available.

Green Valley residents gathered in hall after watching film screenings. Peter Weir inviting comments from the floor and residents speaking at times turning into heated debate, mainly centred around the lack of facilities and infrastructure. Quicktime clip available.