Bodgie (1959)
- Directed by
- Raymond Menmuir
- 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.
How it feels
A live television play from 1959, adapted for an Australian setting. It follows characters in a story originally from Britain, focusing on their interactions and conflicts.
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What happens
Bodgie is an Australian television movie, or rather a live television play with filmed sequences, which aired on ABC during 1959. Originally broadcast on 12 August 1959 in Sydney on ABN-2, a kinescope recording was made of the program and shown in Melbourne on ABV-2 on 2 September 1959. At the time, most live plays broadcast on Australian television were simply performances of overseas plays. Bodgie was based on a British story written by an Australian, Rex Rientis, which was adapted to be relocated to Australia by another Australian writer, Alan Seymour. It is not known if the kinescope recording of the broadcast is still extant or not. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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The Swagman (1965)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.