FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

Expedition to Ayers Rock (Uluru) , 3 trucks loaded with goods and school boys set off from Port Augusta, map of Australia showing route to be taken, sign post in flat dry desert area of Woomera Rocket Range, convoy of trucks & jeeps, water tank, homestead,

Leader Tom Erskine greeted by Mounted Trooper Alf McCleay , jeep outside Kincoonya station, trucks in convoy across desert,signpost to Coober Pedy, VS of opal mining town Coober Pedy, underground housing, cooking over campfire, boys performing various camp tasks

Schoolboy expedition to Ayers Rock, wind mill in desert, boy and man filling water barrel from canvas container, convoy of trucks across desert, visit to cattle stations, Kirken Springs, Ozzie Andrews & family, checking tyres, trucks, getting supplies of water & petrol

Schoolboy expedition to Ayers Rock, small groups of Aborigines from Curtin Springs Station sitting on ground on flat dry desert area, women with children, woman with child on her back, Aboriginal boys in long skirts, woman with square tin balanced on head, tools, boys leaving station, jeep following old camel train paths

Looking across to Ayers Rock (Uluru) in distance, Mt Olga (Kata Tjuta), trucks in f/g, setting up camp at base of Ayers Rock, raising the expedition flag, raising wireless aerial, rain gauge, mountain devil lizard, filling bottle with water from Maggie Springs

Schoolboy expedition to Ayers Rock (Uluru), Aboriginal man prepares paints in ochre and completes rock painting, Aboriginal man uses finger to paint on rock wall, various shots climbing Uluru, placing cairn on top of rock , bottle with people's names inside cairn, view from top of rock, men walking in distance, Olgas (Kata Tjuta) in B/G. (Commentary :These are station blacks. They mightn't look it but they are nearly civilised.)