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Citizens
Follows the story of the Chinese in Australia during the White Australia period.
Series :
Flowers and the Wide Sea |
Episode :
2 |
Year :
1994 |
Total Duration :
55 Minutes |
Producer :
Sharon Connolly
Director :
Tony Stevens |
Ground to air shot of plane in sky with zoom out to suburban rooftops below. Opening titles. VS Chinese crowd gathered waiting in arrivals terminal at Kingsford Smith Airport. Track following Chinese man with wife wheeling luggage cart from terminal to airport car park. Man speaking in Chinese on sound track about lack of present day discrimination subtitled on screen.
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Access No. 72947 | 39 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU pan across large ornate lettering on sign reading ÒChineseÓ. Early B&W still of group of Chinese immigrants. Scene from film of clash between the Australian and Chinese gold miners at Lambing Flat (Young) in 1861. Zoom to drawing of crowd marching with banner reading ÒChinese Must GoÓ.
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Access No. 72956 | 19 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Early B&W footage of Duke and Duchess of York towards camera during Federation ceremony. CU pan across illustration of declaration ceremony. Photographic montage for opening credits. Early B&W footage POV down Sydney street from tram. Pan along still photograph of Chinese children lined up. CU tilt up B&W photograph of well dressed young Chinese man leaning on ornate pedestal.
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Access No. 72961 | 1 min 21 secs | 1900s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
B&W photograph of 4 young Chinese men in street (1903) . Tilt up photograph old Chinese man seated wearing wide straw hat. CU smoke rising from burning incense. George Wah Day walking towards camera through cane field in Gordonvale, Qld. Wah Day to camera talking about father early settler unable to be naturalised as he could not pass dictation test. B&W still of George Wah Day's father dressed in formal western suit.
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Access No. 72965 | 58 secs | 1900s | Qld, Australia | © National Library of Australia | B&W |
CU B&W still of Chinese man wearing sandwich board of newspaper with headline ÒWesley Birthday CommemorationÓ. Interview with Elizabeth Chong, Chinese food writer, talking about grandfather's arrival in Australia. VS B&W footage of tree felling and of large rolling wheel pushing down shrubs and trees clearing land. Two B&W stills of Elizabeth Chong's family.
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Access No. 72972 | 32 secs | Unknown | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
CUs and WS of sampans and barge in red sunset and silhouetted against sunset from ÒChina - The Red SonsÓ. Young Chinese man carrying loads of earth in woven baskets. Chinese house in field. Peasant woman and cattle in foreground from ÒRoads to XanaduÓ.
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Access No. 72976 | 18 secs | 1980s | China | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Interview with food writer Elizabeth Chong talking about grandfather's Australian born sons returning to Australia after father returned to China. B&W footage of Flinders Street Railway Station with high shots over entrance and over train entering Richmond Station, Melbourne. B&W still of Elizabeth Chong's father as a young boy.
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Access No. 72980 | 22 secs | 1990s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
B&W footage with CUs of tools being used to carve and shape wood. VS saw, hand drill, wood plane. Interview with food writer Elizabeth Chong talking about her family's involvement in the furniture business. Zoom into newspaper headline about Chinese competition in the cabinet making industry and the laundry trade.
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Access No. 72984 | 45 secs | Unknown | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
B&W footage of train past camera. Track past green hill POV moving train. Circling tilt up at banana leaves canopied overhead. VS bunches of green bananas hanging from trees. LS down rows of banana trees. Ws cardboard banana packaging boxes stacked in pile and VS bananas on sale. VS fruit markets and Chinese fruit stall.
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Access No. 72989 | 54 secs | 1940s | Qld, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
B&W photographs of Chinese men unloading bananas from boat. B&W drawing of Wing Sang & Co. building. Tilt down to show Haymarket address. CU rippling water. Pan up from trees on creek bank to look along creek. George Wah Day standing beside creek explaining how creek was named after his father. MS pan across mangrove roots in water. Still of Chinese men negotiating laden boat down river.
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Access No. 73003 | 52 secs | 1900s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
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