FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

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All You Have To Do Is Dig

A look at Australia's opal mining industry.

Year : 1969 | Total Duration : 19 Minutes | Producer : John Martin Jones
Director : Malcolm Smith |

A young woman is mining in Coober Pedy with a joey beside her.

Cinematographer Kerry Brown taking a light reading from the top of a holden station wagon in the outback. There is a camera and tripod on top of the car and an actor with a dog on his right.

Film crew, including cinematographer Kerry Brown, standing by a four wheel drive vehicle in outback Australia. Sound recordist is in the foreground wearing headphones.

Interior of an underground bedroom of a miner's dugout home.

Model Chantal Contouri wearing opal jewellery, including earrings and necklace, from opening sequence of the film.

Opal miner from Coober Pedy holding two pieces of metal, divining for opals.

Opal miner from Coober Pedy holding two pieces of metal, divining for opals.

Opal miner, with beard and hat, points to something beyond the camera.

Opal miner, with beard and hat, standing in the doorway of a building.

A look at Australia's opal mining industry.

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Access No. 149637 | 1960s | Colour |

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