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Chris Neal (screen Composer)
Christopher Hugh Neal (born 1946) is an Australian musician, songwriter, record producer and television and film music composer. His scores include Buddies, Bodyline, The Shiralee, Turtle Beach, Farscape, Archer, Shadow of The Cobra and Emerald City. During the 1980s, Neal scored several films from the "Winners" series of telemovies, produced by Patricia Edgar of the Australian Children's Television Foundation. Five Times Dizzy, produced by Tom Jeffrey followed soon after. These projects kickstarted what would be a recurring part of his career; scoring and writing songs for children's television dramas including Johnson and Friends, Lift-Off, Kaboodle, Li'l Elvis and the Truckstoppers and more. Neal's songs and music were also featured in stage shows based on "Johnson and Friends", and in 1995-1996, Neal wrote the music for "Lift Off Live"; a stage musical based on the "Lift-Off" television series. Feature film and television projects continued through the 1990s and 2000 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Sydney is the capital city of the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales and the List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city in Australia. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about 80 km (50 mi) from the Pacific Ocean in the east to the Blue Mountains (New South Wales), Blue Mountains in the west, and about 80 km (50 mi) from Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park and the Hawkesbury River in the north and north-west, to the Royal National Park and Macarthur, New South Wales, Macarthur in the south and south-west. Greater Sydney consists of 658 suburbs, spread across 33 local government areas. Residents of the city are colloquially known as "Sydneysiders". The estimated population in June 2024 was 5,557,233, which is about 66% of the state's population. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2017. The city's nicknames include the Emerald City and the Harbour City. There is ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lift Off (Australian TV Series)
''Lift Off'' is an Australian children's television series that was developed and produced by Patricia Edgar and broadcast on ABC Television from 1992 until the series ended in 1995. Each episode of the series featured a live action storyline about a group of young children, and the problems they encountered with growing up, their parents, and various other social issues. Episodes also featured segments of short animation, puppetry and documentary segments, as well as various songs, stories and word games. Aimed at 3 to 11-year-olds, the series was linked with the school curricula through the Curriculum Corporation of Australia. The different episodes used stories and locations to explore subjects such as jealousy, loneliness and anger. The puppet characters were designed by illustrator Terry Denton and were constructed by the sculptor Ron Mueck. Plot The central focus on the program is the child actors whom are aged between 4 and 10 years.Australian Children's Television Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short Changed
''Short Changed'' is a 1986 Australian film directed by George Ogilvie based on a script by Aboriginal writer Bob Merritt, who described it as a "black/white '' Kramer vs Kramer''".Mary Colbert, "Positive action: Bob Merritt, playwright and screenwriter", ''Cinema Papers'', May 1985 p24 Plot After spending six years in the bush, Stuart, a young Aboriginal man, is trying to get in contact with his nine-year-old son, who lives with his white mother and grandfather in a well-to-do area, goes to a Christian Brothers school, and is unaware of his father's existence. Cast The cast included a number of Merritt's Eora Centre students, among others. * David Kennedy as Stuart Wilkins * Susan Leith as Alison Wilkins * Jamie Agius as Tommy Wilkins * Ray Meagher as Marshall * Mark Little as Curly * Steve Dodd as Old Drunk * Rhys McConnochie as School Principal * Ron Haddrick as Garrick * 'Lucky' Wikramanayake as Gopowalla * Lyndel Rowe as Counsellor * Jennifer Vuletic as Real Es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niel Lynne
''Niel Lynne'' (also known as ''Best Enemies'') is a 1985 Australian film about a young man during the 1960s.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p111 Plot Niel Lynne (Paul Williams) is a romantic influenced by his rebellious cousin Eric. Niel falls in love with his cousin Patricia (Judy Morris), who has spent time in Paris. Patricia then goes to Canberra. Neil joins Eric in Melbourne, where Eric is dating the beautiful Fennimore (Sigrid Thornton). After working as an editor for a student newspaper, Niel then volunteers to fight in Vietnam and Patricia joins the Viet Cong. They are finally reunited and get married. Cast * Paul Williams as Niel * Judy Morris as Patricia * Terry McDermott as Rob Lynne * David Argue as Reg * Sigrid Thornton as Fennimore * George Mallaby as Mike O'Brien * Nina Landis as Helen * Nicki Paull as Melissa * Esme Melville as Old Woman * Harold Baigent as Guard * Brandon Burke Production David Baker trie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebel (1985 Film)
''Rebel'' is a 1985 Australian musical drama directed by Michael Jenkins and starring Matt Dillon, Debra Byrne, and Bryan Brown. It is set in World War Two. Cast * Matt Dillon as Sergeant Harry Rebel * Debra Byrne as Kathy McLeod * Bryan Brown as Tiger * Bill Hunter as Browning * Ray Barrett as Bubbles * Julie Nihill as Joycie * John O'May as Benie * Kim Deacon as Hazel * Sheree da Costa as Barbara * Ned Manning as Private Jones * Cassandra Delaney as All Girl Band * Joy Smithers as All Girl Band * Antoinette Byron as All Girl Band * Nikki Coghill as All Girl Band * Richard Carter as Harry De Wheels * Todd Boyce as Mary's GI * John O'May as Benie ''No Names No Pack Drill'' The movie was based on the play ''No Names, No Packdrill'', by Bob Herbert, uncle of Louis Nowra. The play had its premiere in 1979 at the University of New England. The play was performed by the Sydney Theatre Company in 1980 starring Mel Gibson and Noni Hazlehurst, directed by George Ogilv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBS Storybreak
''CBS Storybreak'' is a Saturday morning anthology television series that originally aired on the CBS network from 1985 to 1989. Hosted by Bob Keeshan (and in its 1993 return by Malcolm-Jamal Warner), the episodes are half-hour animation, animated adaptations of children's books published at the time of airing, including ''Chocolate Fever''. Other episodes included ''The Pit Dragon Trilogy, Dragon's Blood'' and ''Ratha's Creature''. The show grew out of a feature on Keeshan's ''Captain Kangaroo'' series. CBS' first in-house cartoon series since their original Terrytoons, it was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program in the 1985–1986 season. It continued in repeats until 1991 and returned to air in reruns (with Jamal-Warner replacing Keeshan as host) from the 1993–94 to 1997–98 seasons. Select episodes were released on home video in 1992 under the title ''Video Storybreak''. Unique for an American television series, the series featured open captions captioned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palace Of Dreams
''Palace of Dreams'' is a 1985 Australian fictional mini series about a Jewish family running a hotel in working class inner city of Sydney in the 1930s.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p221 Sandra Levy conceived and produced the series, based on her experience of living in a similar hotel run by her Russian Jewish mother during the Great Depression. The main set of the series is Dundee Palace (formerly the Olympic Hotel), on the corner of Regent Street and Moore Park Road, Paddington). It was advertised in newspapers of the time as 'A story of belonging'. It included historical events such as the popularity of Donald Bradman and aviation achievements of Bert Hinkler and Charles Kingsford Smith. It also showed archival footage of the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The Fryer Library at the University of Queensland holds the show's manuscripts in the Hanger Collection of Australian Playscripts. Premise The series is ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Of The Decade
In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority. The term ''crime'' does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition,Farmer, Lindsay: "Crime, definitions of", in Cane and Conoghan (editors), '' The New Oxford Companion to Law'', Oxford University Press, 2008 (), p. 263Google Books). though statutory definitions have been provided for certain purposes. The most popular view is that crime is a category created by law; in other words, something is a crime if declared as such by the relevant and applicable law. One proposed definition is that a crime or offence (or criminal offence) is an act harmful not only to some individual but also to a community, society, or the state ("a public wrong"). Such acts are forbidden and punishable by law. The notion that acts such as murder, rape, and theft are to be prohibited exists worldwide. What precisely is a criminal offence is defined by the criminal law of each r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The City's Edge
''The City's Edge'' is a 1983 Australian film co-written by Aboriginal Australian writer Bob Merritt. Plot Andy comes to Sydney and falls in love with the sister of a heroin addict. Cast * Tommy Lewis * Hugo Weaving Hugo Wallace Weaving (born 4 April 1960) is a British actor. He is the recipient of six Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards (AACTA) and has been recognised as an Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia. Born in Colonia ... as Andy White * Katrina Foster * Mark Lee as Jim Wentworth * Joanne Samuel as Prostitute 1 Production The film was originally entitled ''Running Man'' and was never released theatrically in Australia although it was in the UK.David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p. 205 Merritt later claimed he preferred to "write off" the experience but says it gave him the track record to make '' Short Changed'' (1985).Mary Colbert, "Positive action: Bob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Disappearance Of Azaria Chamberlain
''The Disappearance of Azaria Chamberlain'' is a 1983 Australian television docufilm about the Azaria Chamberlain case.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p. 45 Michael Thornhill later said that "I don't have strong opinions about it he film There are quite a few cheats in it, but at least what it did do – I'm not emotionally close to it – was put the audience in the view of I, the Jury. It has an enormous following in northern Europe. I think Judy did a terrific job. I think it was interesting but, again, it's not a personal project." The film was also released on VHS as "Who Killed Baby Azaria?". Cast *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foreign Exchange (Australian TV Series)
''Foreign Exchange'' is a television series produced by Southern Star in association with Irish public broadcaster RTÉ (Raidió Teilifís Éireann). It aired on Nine Network from 5 November to 27 December 2004. The series starred Lynn Styles as Hannah O'Flaherty, a feisty Irish girl, and Zachary Garred as Brett Miller, a sun-drenched Australian boy. The pair are brought together from opposite sides of the world, due to a transfer portal. The series of 26 episodes was created by the Australian author John Rapsey and directed by Annie Murtagh-Monks and Gillian Reynolos. Synopsis ''Foreign Exchange'' had two major sets, one in Galway, Ireland, and the other in Perth, Western Australia. Brett Miller and his family live underneath their restaurant, only to find a rock that opens a portal into the basement level of O'Keeffe's College, an Irish boarding school (which is in reality Castlehackett House, near Tuam, County Galway).Viking Summer: The Filming of MGM's "Alfred the Great" in G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
