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Reef, The

The Reef traces a history of the Great Barrier Reef from early exploration by European travellers through to its exploitation by modern day visitors.
Year : 1978 | Total Duration : 55.5 Minutes | Producer : John Heyer
Director : John Heyer |
Scenes of the Great Barrier Reef. Aerial over island, CU of seagull, aerial of man walking on sandy beach, underwater CU of coral, fish and man snorkelling. Ends with man snorkelling with beach and seagulls in FG. Commentary by the Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh begins.
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Access No. 123064 | 1 min 8 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company | Colour |
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, intro. Uses globe to demonstrate the size of the Great Barrier Reef in comparison to countries around the world.
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Access No. 123321 | 1 min 13 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company | Colour |
Good CUs of waves and underwater surf and wave action. Aerials of Great Barrier Reef islands, interspersed briefly with underwater shots of coral. Includes title and name of producer.
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Access No. 123322 | 1 min 47 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company | Colour |
CUs of historic maps of Australia, and CU of portrait of Louis de Bougainville (?), an early explorer. Commentary on the discovery of the Great Barrier Reef from de Bougainville's journal.
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Access No. 123323 | 1 min 11 secs | Unknown | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company | Colour |
CUs of driftwood. Aerials of ocean and reef waves. Commentary from Louis de Bougainville's journal detailing a failed attempt to reach the shore due to dangerous conditions at sea.
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Access No. 123324 | 50 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company | Colour |
CU of portrait of Captain James Cook. CUs of early maps of Australia . Paintings of ships and life at sea. Commentary detailing Captain Cook's orders from the British admiralty to explore Australia, and accounts from Cook's log recounting his first experience of the Great Barrier Reef.
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Access No. 123325 | 1 min 11 secs | | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company | Colour |
Scenes of the Great Barrier Reef including rocks, aerials of the reef and islands, and brief underwater shots of coral and fish. VS of sea and reef at night. Commentary points out ÔWagagabu' (?), the Aboriginal word for The Big Reef. Historic events of Captain Cook's diary on 11th June 1770, detailing the ship ÔThe Endeavor' being stuck on coral, are read.
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Access No. 123326 | 58 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company | Colour |
Early maps of Australia and the Great Barrier Reef. Historic paintings of ships. Commentary recounts Captain Cook struggling to rescue his ship ÔThe Endeavor'.
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Access No. 123327 | 29 secs | Unknown | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company | Colour |
Aerials over Great Barrier Reef, aerials over islands. Commentary from Captain Cook's log detailing his attempts to land on the islands.
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Access No. 123328 | 21 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company | Colour |
Scenes of wildlife in the Great Barrier Reef including a shot of seagulls and a CU of monitor lizards on Lizard Island. Also includes a scenic shot of the sandy beach of the island. Concludes with a shot of the hills of the island. Commentary from Captain Cook's log recounts how he named Lizard Island.
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Access No. 123329 | 44 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company | Colour |
Scenes of the Great Barrier Reef, including aerials of islands, waves and surf. Commentary recounts Captain Cook's escape from the Reef.
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Access No. 123330 | 1 min 9 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company | Colour |
Historic paintings of ships, early explorers, whaler and whales in Australia. Commentary recounts early settlement of Australia in NSW. Also reactions to the Great Barrier Reef. ÔSailing to Botany Bay' sung briefly.
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Access No. 123331 | 51 secs | Unknown | © John Heyer Film Company | Colour |
Scenes of the Great Barrier Reef. Waves, surf and aerials of island. Line of surf breaking on edge of reef. Commentary recounts the first explorers sightings of the Reef.
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Access No. 123332 | 40 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company | Colour |
Single seagull flying over reef.
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Access No. 123333 | 14 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company | Colour |
Underwater shots of the Great Barrier Reef. CUs of varieties of coral and fish. Good shots. CU of shells being handled, with coral in the background.
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Access No. 123334 | 1 min 17 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company | Colour |
Scenic shots of the islands of the Great Barrier Reef, showing evidence of ancient Aboriginal occupation, including shells used as utensils and carefully created rock piles. Middens. CU of single rock rising from the sea. CU of rock faces with Aboriginal art.
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Access No. 123336 | 1 min | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company | Colour |
Native bird life on the Great Barrier Reef, including CUs of Black Noddys, Grey Swiftlets, and CUs of Pandanus trees with nests. CUs of birds' eggs.
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Access No. 123338 | 1 min 12 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company | Colour |
Historic illustrations and paintings depicting the early settlers' attempts to establish a safe course through the Great Barrier Reef, by setting up beacons and lighthouses. ÔRule Britannia' plays in the background alongside commentary recounting contemporary attitudes.
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Access No. 123339 | 1 min 23 secs | Unknown | © John Heyer Film Company | Colour |
Aerial of single ship on the Great Barrier Reef amidst waves and surf.
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Access No. 123340 | 37 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company | Colour |
Paintings depicting Aborigines' skirmishes with the First Fleet. Captain Cook's account is read in the commentary.
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Access No. 123341 | 1 min 18 secs | Unknown | © John Heyer Film Company. | Colour |
Recounting of the flight of Mrs. Watson from Lizard Island in 1881, after being attacked, to her eventual death. CU of her present gravestone followed by sepia tinted reenactment. CU of diary entries. CU Aboriginal mens' faces. Note: Commentary has racist overtones
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Access No. 123342 | 5 mins 42 secs | 1880s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company | Colour |
Scenes of the Great Barrier Reef, including aerial of a single island, waves, surf and coral.
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Access No. 123343 | 40 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company | Colour |
CU of the book ÔThe Great Barrier Reef of Australia', by William Saville-Kent, appointed Queensland's Commissioner of Fisheries in 1890. Commentary reading from Saville-Kent's account of the Great Barrier Reef begins here.
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Access No. 123357 | 13 secs | 1890s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company | Colour |
CU of the Natural History Museum in London
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Access No. 123360 | 12 secs | 1970s | © John Heyer Film Company. | Colour |
CU of coral being handled by museum staff. CU of coral specimin on bench top, dissolves to next shot (match frame live coral).
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Access No. 123361 | 18 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company. | Colour |
Good underwater CUs of coral and colourful tropical fish including quick shot of cod of the Great Barrier Reef. Interspersed with scenes of an actor in period costume, in a reenactment of William Saville-Kent. Commentary is from Saville-Kent's account of the Reef.
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Access No. 123363 | 3 mins 12 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company. | Colour |
CUs of William Saville-Kent's catalogue of the marine life of the Great Barrier Reef . CU of a portrait of EJ Banfield, and CU of his book, ÔThe Confessions of a Beachcomber'. Commentary recounts the reasons Banfield wrote about the Great Barrier Reef.
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Access No. 123364 | 36 secs | 1890s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company. | Colour |
Aerial of Dunk Island. Scenic shot of sandy beach., pan into dark mangrove vegetation on edge of beach. Commentary from ÔThe Confessions of a Beachcomber Ô, by E.J. Banfield.
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Access No. 123367 | 31 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company. | Colour |
Scenes of the wildlife of the Great Barrier Reef. Good CU of a single Ulysses butterfly, CU of rainforest trees, a flock of seagulls, and good CUs of single and a couple of dolphins.
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Access No. 123370 | 54 secs | 1970s | © John Heyer Film Company | Colour |
CU of two water snakes fighting. Commentary about the dangerous side of the wildlife in the Great Barrier Reef.
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Access No. 123376 | 17 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company. | Colour |
Good underwater scenes of predatory marine life of the Great Barrier Reef. Including CUs of fish, hermit crabs, poisonous polyps and stinging anemones. Crab in camouflage.
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Access No. 123377 | 1 min 29 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company. | Colour |
Sunrise over one of the islands of the Reef. Interspersed with good underwater CUs of fish, swimming towards camera. Scene continues with a spectacular sunset.
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Access No. 123378 | 31 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company. | Colour |
Good CU of turtle laying eggs, interspersed with brief scenes of a single bird and a couple in silhouette at sunset on beach with tent. Campfire and cooking sausages. Turtle in water.
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Access No. 123379 | 42 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company. | Colour |
Aerial of single island of the Great Barrier Reef - Low lsles.
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Access No. 123380 | 7 secs | 1970s | Low Isles, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company | Colour |
Black and white still photographs of the first scientists to examine the Reef in 1928.
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Access No. 123381 | 50 secs | 1920s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company | B&W |
Good underwater CUs of various types of coral. Swimming in-between the branches are fish. Commentary details the necessary conditions for the growth and survival of coral.
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Access No. 123382 | 1 min 9 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company. | Colour |
Various aerials of the Great Barrier Reef and islands, interspersed with shots of a single seagull in flight against blue sky.
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Access No. 123383 | 1 min 43 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company | Colour |
Scenes illustrating different aspects of tourism in the Great Barrier Reef. Including CUs of cruise boats, people walking on the Reef, snorkelling and swimming. Also fish in aquariums and underwater. CU of starfish. CUs of children. Man taking photograph of fish on reef and people using glass viewers to see fish underwater. CU of bluebottle. CU of marine life being handled. CU of sign for Magnetic Island. ÔSailing to Botany Bay' plays briefly in the background.
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Access No. 123384 | 2 mins 5 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company. | Colour |
Couple fishing on a boat and hauling catch onto boat. People on reef, and good underwater CU of single unusual marine creature. Unusual footage
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Access No. 123385 | 1 min 7 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company. | Colour |
Scenes illustrating damage to the reef caused by pollution. Broken glass bottle in sand. CU of rubbish on the beach, and underwater shots of cans being thrown into water. Concludes with scene of couple on a boat throwing a dead fish overboard.
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Access No. 123387 | 38 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company. | Colour |
Two scenes illustrating damage caused to the Reef. Underwater shot of single man harpooning a fish with a spear gun and shot of a couple in a boat weighing anchor, breaking several coral branches in the process
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Access No. 123389 | 38 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company. | Colour |
CU of newspaper print of the story of the Crown of Thorns starfish and the damage they cause to the coral of the Reef
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Access No. 123390 | 13 secs | 1960s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company. | B&W |
Good underwater CUs of the Crown of Thorns Starfish illustrating how they eat coral polyps and transform a colourful coral garden to white, after consumption.
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Access No. 123391 | 45 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company. | Colour |
CU of newspaper print of the story to rescue the reef from the Crown of Thorns Starfish
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Access No. 123392 | 13 secs | 1960s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company | B&W |
Scenes of divers attempting to salvage coral gardens from the detrimental effects of the Crown of Thorns Starfish. CUs of divers spearing the starfish, and CUs of dead, white coral gardens. CUs of the Crown of Thorns Starfish and coral.
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Access No. 123393 | 1 min 20 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company. | Colour |
Duke of Edinburgh speaking of the detrimental effect the Crown of Thorns Starfish have had on the coral of the Reef. Cuts to a scene of a sandy beach, a CU of a shell being handled and CU of rubbish on the beach. Underlines the point with 600000 and 200 being written in the sand to illustrate how long it has taken to form the Reef and how long people have been around.
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Access No. 123394 | 1 min 10 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company | Colour |
Duke of Edinburgh speaking to camera. Various shots of the recreational pursuits of the Great Barrier Reef, including diving, painting, children playing on the beach and single man fishing. Underwater shot of diver amidst coral and fish
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Access No. 123396 | 49 secs | 1970s | © John Heyer Film Company | Colour |
Interior of a museum showing artefacts of significance for the Great Barrier Reef. CU of Mrs. Watson's tank and Bible.
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Access No. 123397 | 31 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company | Colour |
Aerial over the Great Barrier Reef
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Access No. 123398 | 5 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company. | Colour |
Aspects of communal life on the Great Barrier Reef. Include scenes of man painting and a couple weaving a tapestry culminating in a CU of woven butterfly.
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Access No. 123399 | 1 min 11 secs | 1970s | © John Heyer Film Company. | Colour |
Couple scuba diving and amongst wreck of old anchor and pointing out marine life and fish underwater. Divers looking into underwater caves. CU of single Stingray and CU of single shark.
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Access No. 123400 | 58 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company. | Colour |
Fishing on the Great Barrier Reef. Shot of people, on a boat, catching a fish.
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Access No. 123401 | 20 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company. | Colour |
Birds of the Great Barrier Reef. CUs of Black Noddys laying eggs and chicks. Flocks take flight. CU of people and children watching birds.
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Access No. 123402 | 38 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company | Colour |
Aerials over islands of the Great Barrier Reef. Research scientists measuring marine life of the Reef under the microscope.
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Access No. 123403 | 45 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company. | Colour |
Micro cinematography. Marine life under the microscope in CU.
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Access No. 123405 | 50 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company | Colour |
Couple walking on the beach, then the woman swims by herself. Underwater shots of coral and fish.
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Access No. 123406 | 41 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company. | Colour |
Aerials of the Reef ending in a shot of waves breaking on reef.
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Access No. 123407 | 33 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © John Heyer Film Company. | Colour |
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