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Smoky Dawson

Smoky Dawson was Australia's first cowboy and a pioneer of Australian country music.
Series : Australian Biography Series 3 | Year : 1994 | Total Duration : 27.5 Minutes | Producer : Frank Heimans
Director : Frank Heimans |
Excerpt from B&W film with Smoky Dawson and horse in bush with Smoky's character spying on bandits through binoculars then attaching rifle to guitar.
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Access No. 146484 | 42 secs | 1950s | Australia | © Smoky Dawson | B&W |
MS interview with Smoky Dawson wearing cowboy hat talking about being the first Australian hero.
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Access No. 146485 | 3 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Excerpt from B&W film with Smoky Dawson's character rescuing boy from bandits.
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Access No. 146486 | 10 secs | 1950s | Australia | © Smoky Dawson | B&W |
MS interview with Smoky Dawson wearing cowboy hat disputing that he ever called himself a cowboy.
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Access No. 146487 | 6 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Opening scene of Smoky Dawson on horseback wielding whip from B&W film Adventures with Smoky Dawson.
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Access No. 146488 | 9 secs | 1950s | Australia | © Smoky Dawson | B&W |
CU B&W photograph of Smoky Dawson as a young man.
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Access No. 146489 | 6 secs | 1920s | Australia | © Smoky Dawson | B&W |
CU sepia photograph of Smoky Dawson as a toddler.
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Access No. 146490 | 6 secs | 1910s | Australia | © Smoky Dawson | B&W |
MS interview with Smoky Dawson talking about his earliest memories.
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Access No. 146491 | 21 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU sepia photograph of Smoky Dawson as a toddler dressed as soldier playing with his cousin Daisy, dressed as nurse.
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Access No. 146492 | 9 secs | 1910s | Australia | © Smoky Dawson | B&W |
MS interview with Smoky Dawson talking about his difficult childhood. Slow zoom in to CU as he talks about the violence he experienced. Zoom out to MS as he talks about his memories of his mother and his memories of her death and other family tragedies.
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Access No. 146493 | 4 mins 39 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS sepia photograph of Smoky Dawson's brother Les as a boy.
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Access No. 146494 | 6 secs | 1910s | Australia | © Smoky Dawson | B&W |
MS interview with Smoky Dawson talking about his difficult childhood and his family tragedies. Slow zoom in to CU as Dawson becomes emotional talking about his father.
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Access No. 146495 | 30 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W photograph of Smoky Dawson, 22 leaning over his brother Ted's shoulder as his brother plays guitar, 1935.
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Access No. 146496 | 14 secs | 1930s | Australia | © John Fairfax | B&W |
MS interview with Smoky Dawson talking about the beginning of his musical career playing guitar with his brother as the Coral Island Boys and cutting a demonstration disk.
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Access No. 146497 | 5 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival B&W footage of man pressing gramophone record.
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Access No. 146498 | 5 secs | 1930s | Australia | © Thoughtequity Motion (formerly Film World) | B&W |
MS interview with Smoky Dawson talking about getting Pepsodent Toothpaste as his first sponsor.
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Access No. 146499 | 50 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU early B&W advertising graphic for Pepsodent Toothpaste.
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Access No. 146500 | 5 secs | 1920s | Australia | © Church & Dwight (USA) | B&W |
MS interview with Smoky Dawson talking about having Pepsodent Toothpaste as his first sponsor.
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Access No. 146501 | 21 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU B&W photograph of Dot Dawson smiling to camera.
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Access No. 146502 | 6 secs | 1930s | Australia | © Smoky Dawson | B&W |
MS interview with Smoky Dawson talking about meeting his wife Dot. Zoom in to CU.
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Access No. 146503 | 27 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Zoom out from B&W photograph of Chris Rainbow operating radio equipment at amateur radio station Experimental Station 3JR. B&W photograph of 3JR broadcasting room including record player with gramophone horn and recording equipment.
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Access No. 146504 | 10 secs | 1930s | Australia | © Smoky Dawson | B&W |
CU interview with Smoky Dawson talking about meeting his wife Dot (Florence Cheers).
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Access No. 146505 | 25 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of Smoky Dawson's wife Dot in wide-brimmed hat.
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Access No. 146506 | 5 secs | 1930s | Australia | © Smoky Dawson | B&W |
CU interview with Smoky Dawson talking about meeting and wooing his wife Dot (Florence Cheers).
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Access No. 146507 | 2 mins 24 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Tilt up MS B&W wedding photograph of Smoky Dawson and wife Dot.
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Access No. 146508 | 7 secs | 1940s | Australia | © Smoky Dawson | B&W |
MS interview with Smoky Dawson talking about having to leave for war after marrying his wife Dot (Florence Cheers).
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Access No. 146509 | 17 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival B&W Movietone News footage "Screen and Stage Stars Now Army Entertainers", 25 May, 1945. VS soldiers marching and soldiers unloading crates from trucks. GS sign for the Army Entertainment Unit at the National Studios, Pagewood. WS entertainment troupe performing for soldiers performance with men doing acrobatics in front of singers.
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Access No. 146510 | 24 secs | 1940s | Australia | © Thoughtequity Motion (formerly Film World) | B&W |
MS B&W photograph of Smoky Dawson with three friends from Army Entertainment Unit.
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Access No. 146511 | 6 secs | 1940s | Australia | © Smoky Dawson | B&W |
CU interview with Smoky Dawson talking about being sent to Balikpapan during the war.
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Access No. 146512 | 4 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival B&W footage from 1945 of AIF soldiers disembarking from troopship onto beach at Balikpapan. VS of soldiers on patrol and firing weapons. VS fires from bombarded oil refineries and soldiers carrying dead and wounded companions. MS nurse attending wounded soldier in hospital.
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Access No. 146513 | 35 secs | 1940s | Balikpapan, Borneo, Indonesia | © Thoughtequity Motion (formerly Film World), | B&W |
CU interview with Smoky Dawson talking about his medical condition towards the end of the war when he was stationed at Tarakan.
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Access No. 146514 | 1 min 8 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival B&W footage from "Homeward Journey", 1945. VS of wounded soldiers being airlifted out of Tarakan airstrip, Borneo back home. GS of Red Cross truck and loading of planes then aircraft interiors with nurses attending the wounded.
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Access No. 146515 | 21 secs | 1940s | Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
MS interview with Smoky Dawson talking about being reunited with his wife Dot after coming back from war to a rehabilitation hospital in Heidelberg. Slow zoom in to CU as Dawson describes his physical problems and loss of confidence on venturing out from the hospital. Zoom out to GS of Dawson as he talks of Dot's career at the ABC and describes how she got him a job there in a play.
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Access No. 146516 | 1 min 47 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU B&W photograph of Smoky Dawson in cowboy hat.
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Access No. 146517 | 5 secs | 1950s | Australia | © The Age | B&W |
MS interview with Smoky Dawson describing his audition for the part of a dog in a play and demonstrating the barks he did.
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Access No. 146518 | 57 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS B&W photograph of Smoky Dawson on his rearing horse Flash in front of truck with Rodeo sign painted on side. Zoom out from B&W photograph of "Smoky Dawson" written on side of large utility to high angle WS over Smoky's caravan train through the town of Mildura, late 1940s. WS B&W photograph of Dawson standing with arms folded in front of his caravan with his name written on it.
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Access No. 146519 | 21 secs | 1940s | Australia | © Smoky Dawson | B&W |
MS interview with Smoky Dawson talking about his wife Dot and her mother being shocked at his knife-throwing performance.
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Access No. 146520 | 14 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival B&W footage "Knifethrower Wants To Bury the Hatchet", 25 May, 1945. VS of Smoky Dawson preparing knives to throw and his young male assistant standing ready in front of throwing board.
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Access No. 146521 | 5 secs | 1940s | Australia | © Thoughtequity Motion (formerly Film World) | B&W |
MS interview with Smoky Dawson talking about his wife Dot and her mother being shocked at his knife-throwing performance.
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Access No. 146522 | 18 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival B&W footage "Knifethrower Wants To Bury the Hatchet", 25 May, 1945. VS of Smoky Dawson throwing knives and hatchets at human target standing in front of throwing board as the weapons lodge around him. Some shots in slow-motion.
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Access No. 146523 | 24 secs | 1940s | Australia | © Thoughtequity Motion (formerly Film World) | B&W |
MS interview with Smoky Dawson talking about arriving to work in the USA.
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Access No. 146524 | 16 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU B&W photograph of Smoky Dawson and wife dot leaning out of adjacent portholes, Dawson holding boomerang.
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Access No. 146525 | 6 secs | 1950s | Australia | © John Fairfax | B&W |
GS interview with Smoky Dawson talking about arriving in Nashville, the people he met there and finding a recording label.
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Access No. 146526 | 28 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS B&W photograph of performers and musicians on elaborate stage.
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Access No. 146527 | 6 secs | 1940s | USA | © Unknown | B&W |
GS interview with Smoky Dawson talking about the huge show business opportunities he sacrificed to return to Australia with his wife Dot.
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Access No. 146528 | 21 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of Smoky Dawson and wife Dot (in hat), both smiling.
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Access No. 146529 | 5 secs | 1950s | Australia | © John Fairfax | B&W |
CU interview with Smoky Dawson talking about why his wife Dot wanted them to leave the USA.
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Access No. 146530 | 4 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU tilt down colourful "Kiss Me Kate" poster.
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Access No. 146531 | 5 secs | 1940s | USA | © Unknown | B&W |
CU interview with Smoky Dawson talking about being torn between his wife Dot's need to return to Australia and the opportunities on offer to him in the USA.
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Access No. 146532 | 42 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival B&W Cinesound footage "Fans Mob Singing Cowboy", 2 October, 1952. VS of Smoky Dawson and wife Dot opening box of flowers presented to them on steps of plane at Kingsford-Smith Airport on their homecoming from the USA. VS of crowds holding welcome banners and Dawson walking amongst fans. High angle WS over Dawson on horseback amidst crowd of children.
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Access No. 146533 | 23 secs | 1950s | Australia | © Thoughtequity Motion (formerly Film World) | B&W |
WS B&W photograph of Smoky Dawson sitting around desk with radio colleagues looking at scripts for Kelloggs show. Zoom in to MS of Dawson.
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Access No. 146534 | 8 secs | 1940s | Australia | © Smoky Dawson | B&W |
GS interview with Smoky Dawson talking about his sponsor Kelloggs giving him a national serial called Jindywarrabel and their positioning of him to be a classic Australian cowboy.
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Access No. 146535 | 22 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival B&W footage of Smoky Dawson riding through bush on horse accompanied by singing soundtrack.
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Access No. 146536 | 19 secs | 1940s | Australia | © Unknown | B&W |
Pan across MS B&W photograph of Smoky Dawson, wife Dot, Frank Waters, Marshall Crosbie and Gordon Chater gathered around microphone reading from scripts for radio show, 1954.
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Access No. 146537 | 5 secs | 1950s | Australia | © John Fairfax | B&W |
WS B&W photograph of Smoky Dawson galloping on his horse Flash.
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Access No. 146538 | 8 secs | 1940s | Australia | © Smoky Dawson | B&W |
GS interview with Smoky Dawson talking about the huge popularity of his radio show.
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Access No. 146539 | 3 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of Smoky Dawson signing autograph against boy's head with other children gathered around him.
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Access No. 146540 | 4 secs | 1940s | Australia | © The West Australian Newspaper | B&W |
Tilt to B&W photograph of Smoky Dawson riding Flash waving with cowboy hat.
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Access No. 146541 | 4 secs | 1950s | Australia | © The Age | B&W |
MS B&W photograph of Smoky Dawson with guitar mobbed by children and ABC reporter with microphone. B&W photograph of Dawson pinning Good Conduct badge on boy's shirt while radio reporter from New England Network records event. Pan along photograph to other children waiting in line.
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Access No. 146542 | 30 secs | 1950s | Australia | © Smoky Dawson | B&W |
GS interview with Smoky Dawson talking about the Code of Conduct badge he used to award to children in the 1950s.
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Access No. 146543 | -17 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Colour news item footage of Paul Keating on the floor of the House of Representatives slating the Liberal party. CU Kellogg's Wild West Club Codes of the West and recent footage of Smoky Dawson discussing book with women as commentary reveals that Keating was a deputy sheriff in the Smoky Dawson fan club. CU interview with Dawson explaining the rules for conduct.
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Access No. 146544 | 29 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Channel 9 | Colour |
Colour footage of Smoky Dawson walking around his ranch with wife Dot (shot through large wagon wheel).
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Access No. 146545 | 8 secs | 1990s | Ingleside, Sydney, NSW, Australia | © ABC Library Sales | Colour |
MS interview with Smoky Dawson talking about the Smoky Dawson Ranch.
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Access No. 146546 | 10 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS footage of Smoky Dawson walking around his ranch town with wife Dot.
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Access No. 146547 | 8 secs | 1990s | Ingleside, Sydney, NSW, Australia | © ABC Library Sales | Colour |
CU interview with Smoky Dawson talking about his and Dot's involvement with children at the Smoky Dawson Ranch.
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Access No. 146548 | 17 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of Smoky Dawson with guitar mobbed by children and ABC reporter with microphone. B&W photograph of Dawson pinning Good Conduct badge on boy's shirt while radio reporter from New England Network records event. Pan along photograph to other children waiting in line.
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Access No. 146549 | 4 secs | 1950s | Australia | © Smoky Dawson | B&W |
WS B&W photograph of Smoky Dawson playing guitar with children sitting on lawn beside him wearing cowboy hats. Zoom in to Smoky. CU B&W photograph of Dawson in profile in cowboy hat with finger in air.
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Access No. 146550 | 9 secs | 1980s | Australia | © The Age | B&W |
MS B&W photograph of Smoky Dawson with blonde girl on horseback. Still from film "Cowboy from Down Under", 1950.
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Access No. 146551 | 4 secs | 1950s | Australia | © Smoky Dawson | B&W |
MS sepia photograph of Smoky Dawson as a toddler dressed as soldier playing with his cousin Daisy, dressed as nurse.
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Access No. 146552 | 5 secs | 1910s | Australia | © Smoky Dawson | B&W |
CU B&W photograph of Smoky Dawson raising hat in air with hair windblown.
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Access No. 146553 | 5 secs | 1980s | Australia | © The Age | B&W |
MS interview with Smoky Dawson talking about the magic of the character he created.
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Access No. 146554 | 16 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of Smoky Dawson with arm around boy. ABC photograph, 1950s.
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Access No. 146555 | 4 secs | 1950s | Australia | © Smoky Dawson | B&W |
CU interview with Smoky Dawson talking about how he'd like to be remembered.
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Access No. 146556 | 10 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of Smoky Dawson performing with guitar in front of microphones.
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Access No. 146557 | 4 secs | 1960s | Australia | © The West Australian Newspaper | B&W |
CU interview with Smoky Dawson talking about how he'd like to be remembered.
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Access No. 146558 | 9 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS B&W photograph of Smoky Dawson with four children, holding hands with two of them.
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Access No. 146559 | 4 secs | 1950s | Australia | © Smoky Dawson | B&W |
CU interview with Smoky Dawson talking about how he'd like to be remembered.
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Access No. 146560 | 6 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Tilt down CU B&W photograph of Smoky Dawson embracing wife Dot, 2002
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Access No. 146561 | 7 secs | 2000s | Australia | © John Fairfax | B&W |
VS Smoky Dawson sitting on lounge with wife Dot singing song accompanying himself on guitar as closing credits roll.
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Access No. 146562 | 1 min 13 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
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