Dark Brown (1957)

Directed by

Christopher Muir

Country

Australia

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This is a short live television drama from 1950s Australia. It was one of the first TV plays produced in Melbourne. The plot involves a character with a dark secret.

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What happens

Dark Brown is an early Australian television film, broadcast during 1957 on ABC. It was broadcast live in Melbourne, one of the first TV productions from that city. The play was later filmed again by the ABC in Brisbane in 1963. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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