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Lake

In The Lake, microphotographer Dietmar Fill focuses on a small fresh water lake near his home in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney.
Series : Little World of Dietmar Fill, The | Episode : 2 | Year : 1984 | Total Duration : 22.5 Minutes | Producer : Suzanne Baker
Director : Stephen Ramsey |
VS Dietmar and Bibi Fill looking through microscope in laboratory with micro shots of protozoa with cilia and CUs talking to each other. GS exterior of the Fill's chalet style timber home in the Blue Mountains. VS Fill setting up movie camera to film at nearby lake. Opening credits and footage.
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Access No. 131450 | 2 mins 20 secs | 1980s | Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS Wentworth Falls Lake. Zoom to pollution sign. High angle shots of Dietmar and Bibi Fill walking around dam wall and VS collecting slime into bucket. WS Fill's chalet style home and MS wooden shingles on roof. CUs slime being placed on agar plate and under microscope. CUs Fill filming slime through microscope. Micro shots of slime algae. CUs Fill marking film.
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Access No. 131451 | 2 mins 9 secs | 1980s | Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CUs Dietmar Fill at flatbed film editing machine and looking at algae projected on screen. Micros of jewel-like englena cells. Various MS lake and CU reeds with tilt down to underwater roots. CU small fish swimming amongst reeds and VS reeds and algae, half underwater. Micro shots of algae strands and of moving rotifer.
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Access No. 131452 | 1 min 30 secs | 1980s | Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CUs Dietmar Fill at microscope and micro shots of newly discovered type of rotifer. Zooms to Fill's hands gesturing while he describes rotifer. Black and white footage from the 1970s showing MS detergent floating on lake, sewerage treatment works, zoom back from stream over rocks with frothing detergent at base. VS pollution in stream. CUs snow-like detergent.
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Access No. 131453 | 1 min 56 secs | 1980s | Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS ducks swimming past reeds in lake. Micros of amoeba (plankton cell) and swarming protozoa. WS moorhens at lake's edge and in reeds. MS track of Dietmar Fill walking through reeds at lake's edge and VS netting small fish with the help of wife Bibi. WS pan across lake. Fill filming fish in glass aquarium on his verandah. CUs fish in recreated underwater environment.
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Access No. 131454 | 2 mins 57 secs | 1980s | Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
VS Dietmar Fill in laboratory with microscope and taking stills of frog egg. Micro shots of eggs and birth of tadpole. ECUs of tadpoles attaching themselves to underwater vegetation. ECUs tadpoles feeding and VS development. VS Dietmar and Bibi Fill setting up for filming. MS Fills filming with dog in frame. ECU tadpole with legs grown.
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Access No. 131455 | 4 mins 53 secs | 1980s | Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU Dietmar Fill in cutting room. CU tadpole on viewing screen and Fill dragging film back and forth on viewing machine capturing momentous moment of frog's leg emerging. CU emotional face of Fill. CUs tadpoles at various stages of growth and CUs adult frogs. CU green frog in reeds and jumping into water. LS egret on banks of lake
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Access No. 131456 | 1 min 28 secs | 1980s | Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS Dietmar and Bibi Fill in rowboat on lake picking up litter from reeds. Zooms from houses near edge of lake to lake.
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Access No. 131457 | 1 min 16 secs | 1980s | Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU yabby chasing fish in glass aquarium tank. Bibi and Dietmar Fill collecting specimens in reeds of lake. Micro shots of damsel fly larvae and dragonfly larvae in various phases. CU dragonfly on reed and flying. CUs dragonfly laying eggs on water surface. MS Fill filming in reeds and CUs catching and photographing frog and frogs mating. Macro shot of frogs eggs.
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Access No. 131458 | 2 mins 56 secs | 1980s | Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
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