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Welcome to Woomera

A film about ordinary people in a small town caught up in big events.
Year : 2004 | Total Duration : 55 Minutes | Producer : Steve Thomas, Kim Anning
Director : Steve Thomas |
Outback dirt road POV of driver of 4WD vehicle.
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Access No. 134969 | 9 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage B/W travelling LS of outback road POV driver. Pan across flat but rocky countryside, fast zoom to ECU Aboriginal artwork on rock. PAN to men standing at base of rocket at launch site; POV from ground, TILT up to top of rocket . Top of rocket, PAN down to men standing at base of launch site
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Access No. 134970 | 27 secs | Unknown | Woomera, SA, Australia | © ITN | B&W |
Outback dirt road POV of driver of 4WD. Travelling WS of flat red outback landscape, blue sky with few white clouds.
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Access No. 134971 | 9 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage: colour internal WS of the operations room of Woomera space facility, where testing of long range missiles took place during the Cold War. Men wearing headphones sitting, backs to camera, at operations panel. CU on switches on operations panel.
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Access No. 134972 | 7 secs | 1960s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage: colour rocket launch at Woomera rocket range, flames discharging as rocket takes off.
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Access No. 134973 | 6 secs | 1950s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © Defence Science & Technology Organisation (DSTO) | Colour |
Travelling WS of flat red outback landscape, blue sky with few white clouds.
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Access No. 134974 | 2 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage : Men seated with backs to camera and facing a panel of gauges, barren landscape at Emu Plains, Maralinga. ECU of hand on gauge turning clockwise. Hazy WS followed by large cloud eruption on the horizon from a bomb exploding, WS of thick cloud in fallout.
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Access No. 134997 | 11 secs | 1950s | Maralinga, SA, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
POV driver of 4WD along dirt outback road.
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Access No. 134998 | 2 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage: quick colour shot of satellite in space, pull back to large white dome buildings of space station. CU of rotating satellite dish used by USA to track Communist missile launches.
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Access No. 134999 | 5 secs | Unknown | Narrunga, SA | © ABC | Colour |
Travelling shot of flat red outback landscape, blue sky with white clouds. Dissolve to travelling shot past detention centre for asylum seekers behind a fence of steel bars. CU on sign - Welcome to Woomera - listing attractions in the town. VS of township of Woomera. LS of main street and LS of suburban street with two 4WD vehicles passing each other. WS of building with rocket sculpture at entrance. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 135000 | 34 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival colour footage of two men constructing a brick wall. Man shovelling dirt through a sifting device on a construction site. WS of men constructing a house. Aerials over Woomera and desert surroundings. WS of a jeep driving out of large hangar under construction. Construction worker standing on a girder of a rocket launcher under construction. Construction worker riding on a large bucket of earth being hoisted. CU of man blowing whistle to direct crane. HAS of rocket range construction site. None of the construction workers are wearing safety gear. Development of largest rocket range outside Russia and USA.
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Access No. 135001 | 1 min 34 secs | 1940s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © Defence Science & Technology Organisation (DSTO) | Colour |
Archival colour footage of a helicopter in flight against blue sky with Santa Claus waving from helicopter. VS of Santa giving out Christmas presents to a large crowd of children swarming around him.
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Access No. 135002 | 12 secs | Unknown | Woomera, SA, Australia | © National Film and Sound Archive | Colour |
MS of Santa Claus in the back of a utility vehicle being driven through the streets of Woomera. Interview with Bernie McCarthy as he is dressing in the Santa suit. Man at microphone welcoming families to community Christmas event, Carols by Candlelight 2003, at outdoor swimming centre. Santa waving from back of car. VS of local people and children at the swimming pool welcoming Santa. Woman on Santa's lap. WS of post office. Interior shot of postman placing letters into pigeon holes and VS of postal activities. Interview with postal worker, Rob Dillon. Rob Lockyer sitting at computer. Interview with Rob and Vasudha Lockyer about the building of the rocket range providing income for the local community. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 135003 | 1 min 50 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
LS of Mobil service station with For Sale sign. CU on a griller with eggs and onions cooking and LS behind the counter of cafe, food outlet. Interview with Murray Tschirpig, about trying to think of new ideas to keep his business afloat. Three construction workers working on pipeline in outback. Interview with Charlie Payne about the hardship but uniqueness of living in Woomera. Bute Bus into car park. Tour operator describing the missile park in Woomera and VS of missile replicas. Interview with Peter Morton of Flinders University about understanding Woomera in the context of post WWII history. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 135005 | 1 min 45 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage of cars in shopping centre car park and people walking. Continuation of interview with Peter Morton of Flinders University about Woomera, post WWII.
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Access No. 135007 | 12 secs | 1960s, 2000s, | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Archival colour footage of space tracking station equipment.
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Access No. 135008 | 7 secs | Unknown | Woomera, SA, Australia | © ABC | Colour |
Interview segments of Peter Morton of Flinders University interview describing Australia's response to the Cold War.
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Access No. 135009 | 14 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage of rocket being launched and firing through space, second rocket launch. Third rocket launched vertically from launch pad
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Access No. 135011 | 24 secs | Unknown | Woomera, SA, Australia | © ITN (London) | B&W |
Archival colour footage of men seated at control panels at space station. CU of man with headphones. WS of operators seated at control panels.
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Access No. 135012 | 6 secs | Unknown | Woomera, SA, Australia | © Defence Science & Technology Organisation (DSTO) | Colour |
Colour archival footage title ÒThis Film is SecretÓ. Caricature or graphic of man standing by model of rocket, pull back to show full rocket. Man using wall map to indicate distance of rocket testing. Interior shot of Woomera Heritage Centre with Jim and Marion Frost looking at postcards pasted on wall and inspecting cluster bombs on display in Heritage Centre. Interview with Marion about Jim not being suited to working on bombs in Woomera.
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Access No. 135016 | 55 secs | Unknown | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Colour archival footage of rocket being transported from hangar as other men watch on.
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Access No. 135017 | 11 secs | Unknown | Woomera, SA, Australia | © Department of Defence | Colour |
Interview with Jim and Marian Frost about his contribution to the defence of Australia by his work at Woomera. Jim describes himself as a boffin rather than a warrior as he looks at space scanning equipment on display at the Woomera Heritage Centre.
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Access No. 135018 | 43 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage of interview with Lorraine Floss Hall on a rotating tracking device and talking about her exciting work of tracking missiles during the launch. CU of news reporter, interviewer.
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Access No. 135019 | 33 secs | 1960s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © ITN | B&W |
Colour archival footage of rocket launch with explosion at base of launch site and rocket firing into space.
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Access No. 135020 | 7 secs | 1950s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Woman enters door, interior of Woomera Post Office, woman serving (Lynn Dillon) and takes large envelope from customer, Vasudha Lockyer, and weighs it. They discuss , with laughter, the benefits of living in Woomera. CU of toddler sucking dummy while sitting in pram. LAS of small Fokker plane in flight against clear blue sky
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Access No. 135021 | 1 min 15 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival colour footage of aerials of Woomera township. People alighting down stairs from plane on tarmac and walking into Woomera airport. LS of pipeline bringing water from Murray River across barren countryside. Woomera township in distance. VS of housing and children playing in Woomera streets.
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Access No. 135022 | 30 secs | 1950s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview with Peter Morton of Flinders University about Woomera being an idyllic place to live in 1950s but that it was isolated and had a closed shop mentality with a lack of cultural activities.
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Access No. 135023 | 22 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Colour archival footage of people gathered around a barbeque made from half of a forty gallon drum. Zoom to food being cooked. Men lowering kegs of beer from back of truck with small boy looking on. Men carrying beer across to barbeque.
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Access No. 135024 | 15 secs | 1950s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © National Film and Sound Archive | Colour |
Colour archival footage of woman in kitchen checking on cake in oven and man digging in garden. Baker home delivering bread from truck. Three women having afternoon tea in garden.
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Access No. 135025 | 32 secs | 1950s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview with Peter Morton of Flinders University about women finding it difficult to cope with the isolation of living in Woomera.
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Access No. 135026 | 15 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Colour archival footage of lawn bowling with man bowling from opposite end to camera. WS of golf in the outback with people standing around a red barren golf course hole. Cricket being played on dry barren cricket pitch. People sun baking and diving into community swimming pool. WS of men walking towards parked buses. Man approaches sign checking his pockets. Sign is a caricature of a military policeman with words ÒHave You Remembered Your PassÓ. Buses along dirt road with low level buildings in distance.
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Access No. 135027 | 22 secs | 1950s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Jim and Marian Frost walk along path towards a community hall or drama theatre where Marian belonged to the theatre group. Outback landscape surrounding theatre.
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Access No. 135028 | 10 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B/W still photograph of group of people including Marian Frost and members of the theatre group in Woomera.
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Access No. 135029 | 4 secs | 1950s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © Private Collection | B&W |
Marian and Jim Frost interviewed about the Woomera Theatre Group
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Access No. 135030 | 10 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B/W still photograph of Marian and Jim Frost with theatre group
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Access No. 135031 | 5 secs | 1950s | © Private Collection | B&W |
Interview with Marian Frost about her involvement in the Woomera drama group and choral society. Her husband, Jim stands beside her.
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Access No. 135032 | 14 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Colour archival footage of old car (Hillman?) driving past a stone church. People walking in to church. Cars parking outside shops. High angle interior shot of a busy grocery store. Two women looking at clothes in department store.
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Access No. 135033 | 22 secs | 1950s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © ITN (London) | Colour |
Archival couple in open sports car (convertible) being stopped by Commonwealth police at gate and having identification checked. Sign, Have You Remembered Your Pass.
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Access No. 135034 | 12 secs | 1950s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © ITN (London) | B&W |
Interview with Jim and Marian Frost comparing Port Augusta to Woomera. Peter Morton of Flinders University describes living in Woomera as a place where all needs were met making for easy living. Woman raising the Australian flag. CU on sign on outside of building ÒCommonwealth of Australia. Department of Defence. Defence Support Centre WoomeraÓ. Administration and marketing of Woomera now outsourced to BAE Systems. White flag flying with name BAE Systems, the second largest weapons company in the world which is contracted to run the village and market the rocket range.
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Access No. 135035 | 1 min 19 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Segment from Department of Defence promotional video, titled ÒNothing to Get in Your WayÓ used to market the rocket range at Woomera. Aerials of Woomera. Graphic map showing Woomera's location as Woomera Prohibited Area. Large defence aircraft on runway then in take off. Interior operations room with three men in blue dust jackets surrounded by electronic equipment. Large explosion with thick black smoke. Military aircraft in flight towards and over camera.
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Access No. 135036 | 24 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © Department of Defence | Colour |
Interview with Fred Eske, General Manager, Support Services of BAE Systems describes the company as global having been established over last three years thorough a merger of GEC Marconi and British Aerospace.
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Access No. 135037 | 6 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library - some restrictions | Colour |
Segment from Department of Defence promotional video, titled ÒNothing to Get in Your WayÓ. Aerials of Woomera prohibited area. Interior of operations room
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Access No. 135038 | 13 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © Department of Defence | Colour |
Interview with Fred Eske, General Manager, Support Services of BAE Systems describing their mission as a systems company innovating for a safer world. Interior of Defence Department administration building with Area Administrator, Bob McKenzie through front entrance and using security pass to enter restricted area. Interview with Bob McKenzie describing Woomera as a company town owned by Defence. Exterior Woomera Theatre and interior of empty cinema foyer. Man removes cover from large cinema projectors and CU of him threading film onto reel in projector. MS of projectionist in profile adjusting projector. Teenagers at cinema foyer and CU of tearing cinema tickets from reels. Interior of theatre and curtains open to sign Welcome to Woomera Theatre
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Access No. 135039 | 1 min 34 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library - some restrictions | Colour |
Interview with Bernie McCarthy, Security-in-Charge at Nurrungar. Woomera Golf Club with golfers hitting off amongst scrub and bush on dry desert land. CU of golfers buggy carrying a piece of carpet which they use as a green on the course. CU on raking the dirt near the hole. Interior shots of Golf Club with golfer describing how popular golf once was in Woomera. FS of Gold Club honour roll. FS of portrait of Queen Elizabeth II hanging on wall. Road train along bitumen road and past camera. Prohibited Area sign in desert . Man using pointer on a map to show the Woomera Prohibited Area (WPA) which is 127,000 kilometres and used for the testing of war material. 4WD along dirt track in outback towards camera. CU of hands unlocking thick chain around gate, man opens gate and drives through.
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Access No. 135040 | 2 mins | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU of Andrew Starkey in profile (Indigenous Liaison Officer, Department of Defence) driving car. Andrew walking over red rocky landscape. Interview about his traditional links with the land in the Woomera area. Prohibited area of Woomera has many Indigenous sites. Andrew points out Indigenous rock art and describes its meaning.
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Access No. 135054 | 1 min 5 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B/W archival footage of typewriter in action fading to headlines, Longines Chronoscope: A Television Journal of the Important Issues of the Hour. MS of Hon. Richard Casey, Australian Minister for External Affairs (1953) giving address about the Woomera rocket range where guided weapons and atomic bombs can be exploded without hurting anybody.
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Access No. 135069 | 43 secs | 1950s | USA | © NARA | B&W |
Low angle LS of goods train along track and past camera in outback
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Access No. 135070 | 10 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Colour photograph of group of Aboriginal people sitting on back of truck. Second photo of native patrol officer, Walter McDougall, standing alongside truck. Third photo of Indigenous people gathered around truck with barren desert landscape in background.
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Access No. 135071 | 9 secs | 1950s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © John Dallwitz | Colour |
Andrew Starkey (Indigenous Liaison Officer, Department of Defence) interview describing the ineffectiveness of one person rounding up Indigenous people in the Woomera Prohibited Area , an area the size of a small European country, which was to become radioactive after the explosion of atomic bombs.
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Access No. 135072 | 18 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B/W archival footage of native patrol officer at Woomera, Walter McDougall, being interviewed about his patrol to round up 1000+ Indigenous people over six weeks and move them from the Woomera Prohibited Area in preparation for testing of bombs
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Access No. 135073 | 28 secs | 1950s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © ABC | B&W |
Interview with Peter Morton of Flinders University about native patrol officer, Walter McDougall, being a hero of the Woomera project because of his unrelenting opposition to anything that would damage the Indigenous inhabitants of Woomera Prohibited Area while bomb testing was being undertaken.
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Access No. 135074 | 13 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Colour archival footage of native patrol officer, Walter McDougall, standing with group of Indigenous people carrying their possessions on their heads. Aboriginal people sitting in circle with McDougall standing. VS of Aboriginal people with possessions in a bundle on their head.
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Access No. 135075 | 22 secs | 1950s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © Defence Science & Technology Organisation (DSTO) | Colour |
B/W archival footage of a person wearing protective mask for radiation. Rocket being launched and seen through thick haze of smoke. Radiation detection devices being put in place on pole. Cameraman with camera for filming the launch. Launch tower structure. Two men, back to camera watching dials on control panel. Three rows of lights blinking. Hand on clock moving forward. Atomic explosion and mushroom cloud.
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Access No. 135076 | 41 secs | 1950s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Colour archival footage of schoolchildren dancing in circle around the teacher in playground. Two lines of children playing captain ball. Group of girls skipping with skipping ropes. Children running.
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Access No. 135077 | 21 secs | 1950s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © Defence Science & Technology Organisation (DSTO) | Colour |
School playground and LS of corridor in school building. LS exterior supermarket. Interior shots of supermarket. Vasudha Lockyer with baby in stroller at checkout. Rob Lockyer leaving parked car and walking along side of building. Earth moving machinery grading land. Vasudha Lockyer sitting outside supermarket with baby in pram and interview about leaving Woomera. VS of interior of Sports Club with food being served and meat tray raffle being run. Interior BAE Systems souvenir shop. VS of advertising signs for Woomera Rocket Range Village and Spud's Roadhouse . Road signs in Woomera.
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Access No. 135078 | 2 mins 31 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Pan across Missile Park containing the remains of rockets and failed experiments. Linda Biddau, Development Manager of BAE Systems gives a tour of the museum section of the Missile Park. Focus on a display of the Europa Rocket launch site still existing in Woomera Rocket Range.
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Access No. 135092 | 39 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage of pan across barren landscape to the Blue Streak launching site, tilt down launcher. Blue Streak developed under ELDO project (European Launcher Development Organisation) as a medium range ballistic missile. Later became the booster for a satellite launcher. CU on panel of switches in control room. Blue Steak Rocket being launched into space with flames shooting from base.
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Access No. 135093 | 58 secs | 1960s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Marian and Jim Frost looking at remains of Blue Streak launch site. Jim describes the launching of Blue Streak. Blue Streak was developed under ELDO project (European Launcher Development Organisation) as a medium range ballistic missile. Later became the booster for a satellite launcher.
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Access No. 135094 | 25 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage of CU of night time rocket launch
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Access No. 135095 | 15 secs | 1960s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © Defence Science & Technology Organisation (DSTO) | Colour |
Low angle pan of Blue Streak launch site. Interview Jim Frost and Peter Morton of Flinders University about the dismantling of the launch site at the end of the ELDO project (European Launcher Development Organisation). Marian Frost speaks of the historical importance of the site and that it should not have been dismantled. LS of the site POV moving vehicle approaching. CU of tour guide on tourist bus describing the history of the site. VS of tourists viewing the site. Bike rider drives into service station to refuel, For Sale sign on board, service station owner fills petrol tank on motorbike.
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Access No. 135096 | 2 mins 42 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview with service station owners, Murray and Merran Tschirpig, talking about his service station not being worth an injection of the capital required to keep operating. Murray driving a tractor. Petrol bowser painted with Closed Down sign. Interview with postal worker, Rob Dillon, about the loss of population from Woomera because the township is on an economic downturn. Postal worker on motorbike delivering mail. Interview Fred Eske, General Manager, Support Services, BAE Systems speaks about the general opinion that Defence should provide security to the townsfolk. However, he believes there is a commercial reality to be met and the town needs to become relevant to the people. VS of men playing lawn bowls. CU on bowls on green.
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Access No. 135097 | 2 mins | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library - some restrictions | Colour |
Interview with Area Administrator, Bob McKenzie, about the loss of funding since America left the ELDO project, (European Launcher Development Organisation) and Nurrungar, Joint Defence Space Communications Station (JDSCS). WS of motorbike rider on a winding road through the red outback desert. MS of bike rider. POV bike rider approaching a white dome structure of Nurrungar in desert.
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Access No. 135098 | 28 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage from USAF (United States Air Force) Nurrungar induction video of title, Back of Beyond. Nurrungar was Joint Defence Space Communications Station (JDSCS) between Australia and USA. Kendal passenger plane on runway. Couple alight from plane. Air force personnel saluting to other officer and shaking hands on tarmac. Commander Col. Michael Hess speaks to camera with welcome message.
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Access No. 135099 | 38 secs | Unknown | Woomera, SA, Australia | © US Air Force | Colour |
Motorbike rider up to security fence in the desert, unlocks fence and slides it open. HAS of man entering doorway then LAS as he looks up to a satellite tracking dish for tracking global missile launches inside station tracking station. He climbs up the stairs and into the dish via a trap door. VS of dish structure. Interview with Michael Hess about the purpose of the program being to detect ballistic missiles launched by Soviet Union and China at the United States up to the 1990 Gulf War. LAS of man's legs in dark corridor and holding torch as if on security watch.
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Access No. 135100 | 1 min 26 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage of protest march and American flag burning on fence. Protesters running along road. Pan across naked protesters facing away from camera with letters painted on their backs and spelling out We've Nothing to Hide Have You? Nurrungar was Joint Defence Space Communications Station (JDSCS) between Australia and USA in 1970s to 1990s.
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Access No. 135101 | 18 secs | 1980s | Nurrungar, SA, Australia | © ABC | Colour |
Man walking into single building which could be a security gatehouse in Nurrungar, Joint Defence Space Communications Station (JDSCS) in desert landscape
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Access No. 135102 | 5 secs | 2000s | Nurrungar, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival photograph zoom to MCU of army personnel with Bernie McCarthy, Security-in-Charge at Nurrungar, with one of the men looking through binoculars.
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Access No. 135103 | 5 secs | 1980s | Nurrungar, SA, Australia | © ABC | B&W |
Interview with Bernie McCarthy and job satisfaction as Security-in-Charge at Nurrungar for 25 years. (Nurrungar, Joint Defence Space Communications Station (JDSCS)
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Access No. 135104 | 6 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival colour footage of police escorting protesters away from demonstration scene at Nurrungar protests in 1993.
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Access No. 135105 | 3 secs | 1990s | Nurrungar, SA, Australia | © ABC | Colour |
Interview with Bernie McCarthy, Security-in-Charge, at Nurrungar for 25 years.
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Access No. 135106 | 4 secs | 2000s | Nurrungar, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival colour footage of security police and Bernie McCarthy, Security-in-Charge, at Nurrungar protests dragging protester along the ground.
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Access No. 135107 | 3 secs | 1990s | Nurrungar, SA, Australia | © ABC | Colour |
Interview with Bernie McCarthy, Security-in-Charge, at Nurrungar for 25 years about whether the Nurrungar Joint Defence Space Communications Station (JDSCS) practiced for a nuclear attack.
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Access No. 135108 | 14 secs | 2000s | Nurrungar, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival colour footage of 4th July boat race held by the Americans from the Woomera bases. Boat race held on land with people using hoops as boat and contestants running on dry ground. Audience cheering and taking photographs. Men with boats jump into brown water. Hand shaking at end of race between teams.
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Access No. 135109 | 18 secs | 1980s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © ABC | Colour |
Interview with Henriette and Bill Greenfield about the duty free shops on the American bases at Woomera.
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Access No. 135110 | 20 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU on ten pin bowling ball coming through return on bowling alley. CU on bowling shoes in rack and customer being handed pair of shoes over the counter. VS of man bowling and knocking out all but one ball. WS of gymnasium with weights equipment and interview with man about the Americans flying in their own home comforts for the American defence bases and that the morgue was renovated to become a fitness centre
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Access No. 135111 | 42 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage of young adults dressed in formal attire. Pan to military men in full uniform and saluting to American anthem. Military function. 4th July Ball. American flags. Colour archival photograph of Henriette Greenfield and her daughter. Photograph of Henriette and Bill Greenfield with their daughter and other young women in formal dresses.
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Access No. 135112 | 25 secs | 1980s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © ABC | Colour |
Interview with Henriette and Bill Greenfield about the 4th July balls held by the American defence bases in Woomera
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Access No. 135113 | 4 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
US Air force Starlifter plane moving along runway. Pull back to archival footage of white domes of Nurrungar Space Station, Nurrungar Joint Defence Space Communications Station (JDSCS)
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Access No. 135114 | 12 secs | 1980s | Nurrungar, SA, Australia | © ABC | Colour |
Interview with Henriette Greenfield about the citizens of Woomera being supported by the Americans until end of the 1990s. Bernie McCarthy, Security-in-Charge, steps from utility vehicle at wire fence of Nurrangar Space Station, Joint Defence Space Communications Station (JDSCS). Interview about the withdrawal of the Americans from the station. Utility along bitumen road with Nurrangar Joint Defence Space Communications Station (JDSCS) in background. Road sign to Woomera.
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Access No. 135115 | 1 min 13 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Pan along Woomera Detention Centre for asylum seekers seen through wire security fencing. Larger grader past camera.
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Access No. 135117 | 14 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © ABC | Colour |
Interior of church with congregation taking Holy Communion from Father Jim Monaghan. Interview with Father Jim Monaghan where he claims that he was warned by the Immigration Department not to speak to the media or his visits to the Detention Centre would be curtailed.
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Access No. 135119 | 34 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage of breakout from Woomera Detention Centre with asylum seeker walking across a broken down fence. Large group of asylum seekers walking along road towards camera and past Woomera road sign. CU on male detainee shaking fist and chanting protest slogan
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Access No. 135120 | 17 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © ABC | Colour |
Interview with Father Jim Monaghan describing the breakout from Woomera Detention Centre in 2002.
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Access No. 135121 | 9 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Escaped detainee from Woomera Detention Centre huddled under blanket in the night. VS of group of people under blankets and lying on ground
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Access No. 135122 | 8 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © ABC | Colour |
Interview with Father Jim Monaghan describing the breakout from Woomera Detention Centre in 2002.
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Access No. 135123 | 19 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Demonstration of protesting asylum seekers,waving their arms in air, men hugging each other in breakout from Woomera Detention Centre in 2002.
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Access No. 135124 | 7 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © ABC | Colour |
Interview with Henriette and Bill Greenfield about how nervous the Woomera community were about the breakout from the Woomera Detention Centre in 2002.
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Access No. 135126 | 19 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Dark shadowy shot of people huddled together in the Woomera Detention Centre breakout of 2002.
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Access No. 135127 | 5 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © ABC | Colour |
Interview with Henriette and Bill Greenfield describe how they helped the asylum seekers with food and blankets in the Woomera Detention Centre breakout of 2002
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Access No. 135128 | 4 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage of rows of men kneeling on blankets and bowing in prayer
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Access No. 135129 | 5 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © ABC | Colour |
Pan along bare wire security fence (razor wire) surrounding Woomera Detention Centre. Travelling shot of shadows of fencing on red earth. LAS of barbed wire top to fence and security cameras
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Access No. 135130 | 17 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS of detainees walking along fence within Woomera Detention Centre . Sign being held by detainees against fence, Freedom or Death. LS of detainee laying on barbed (razor) wire fence in protest. Detainee jumps from top of fence to ground. Bernie McCarthy, Security-in-Charge at Nurrungar, and ambulance officer wheeling patient on stretcher past media cameramen into hospital.
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Access No. 135132 | 16 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © ABC | Colour |
Interview with Dr. Simon Lockwood, Woomera's only doctor talks about the physical and psychological costs to detainees of being locked in the Woomera Detention Centre.
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Access No. 135133 | 9 secs | 2000s | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
MS child detainee at Woomera Detention Centre screaming.
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Access No. 135134 | 3 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © ABC | Colour |
Police amongst protesters, pushing against fence and jostling with detainees. Police on horseback wearing riot protective gear ride amongst group of demonstrators.
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Access No. 135137 | 18 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © Rockhopper Productions | Colour |
Interview with Dr. Simon Lockwood, Woomera's only doctor, about the disillusionment of the people working in the detention centre and their leaving Woomera. Exterior view of hotel or club. Interior shot of games room with billiard tables. MS of man throwing dart at board while others watch on. Pan around the club room with focus on a framed riot baton used in the Detention Centre protests and given to the club. MS profile of interview with Charlie Payne employed by ACM (Australian Correctional Management) at Woomera Detention Centre.
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Access No. 135138 | 1 min 7 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Bus towards camera with security guard standing in bus.
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Access No. 135140 | 6 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © ABC | Colour |
Interview with Charlie Payne employee at ACM (Australian Correctional Management) at Woomera Detention Centre during 2002 breakout.
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Access No. 135141 | 7 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage of protesters and police jostling outside fence at Woomera Detention Centre. Detainees climbing fence and jumping into crowd.
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Access No. 135142 | 7 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © Rockhopper Productions | Colour |
Interview with Charlie Payne employee at ACM (Australian Correctional Management) at Woomera Detention Centre during 2000 breakout. VS baseball game. Exterior shot of wall with painted mural and MS of white statue. Interior shot of Mass led by Father Jim Monaghan. VS of Woomera detainees with their faces blurred and VS of congregation shaking hands and greeting detainees in church. Interview Father Jim Monaghan about the injuries sustained by the detainees in the riots.
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Access No. 135143 | 1 min 41 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival footage of protesters storming security fence and being chased by police at Woomera Detention Centre riots of 2002. Detainees escaping through broken down fence.
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Access No. 135144 | 18 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © SBS (sound) Channel 7 (image) | Colour |
MS of Virgin Mary fresco on church wall. VS of church service with Woomera Detention Centre detainees with blanked out faces. MS Father Jim Monaghan leading interfaith service at pulpit. Interview with Rob and Vasudha Lockyer about them selecting a detainee from Woomera Detention Centre as godmother for their child and their developing friendship.
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Access No. 135146 | 48 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Henriette and Bill Greenfield walking dogs down stairs at beach. Interview about her time as a nurse at the Woomera Detention Centre and the guilt she feels at leaving the job and the detainees.
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Access No. 135147 | 52 secs | 2000s | Adelaide, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Night WS of fires burning in Woomera Detention Centre. Aerials of accommodation housing within Woomera Detention Centre compound.
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Access No. 135148 | 12 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © ABC | Colour |
WS of barbed wire (razor wire) security fence and pull back to show playground within the closed compound of the Woomera Detention Centre. WS of compound fence and VS around the exterior and interior of detention centre showing paintings on walls of accommodation. Interview Bob McKenzie about the association of the township of Woomera with a detention centre lasting for some time. Horizon of flat barren expanse of desert country joining expansive blue sky. WS of sheep grazing on barren land. POV truck along dirt road in country. Two men entering gate at Wirraminna Station. HAS of old red cattle dog. Two men and woman sitting at table and men using map to show her where bombs will be dropped in Woomera Rocket Range Prohibited Area.
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Access No. 135149 | 1 min 56 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
PAN across top of Department of Defence buildings, aircraft flying across sky in far distance; fast zoom to WS aircraft flying across cloudy sky. MS of man operating a white tracking device. PAN aircraft flying across sky; past tower and CU on hand on handle. Two men operating rotating tracking device, one at each end. Aircraft flying across sky and dropping exploding object onto flat ground. Profile face looking through eye piece of tracking device and PAN to profile person's face looking through viewing section of tracking device. Woman at tracking device.
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Access No. 135150 | 26 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage of men watching spacecraft at launch site. LS spaceship positioned on the side of rocket launcher. Rocket launch, explosion at base as rocket fires into space. Rocket spiralling out of control with white smoking trailing behind. Zoom to huge explosion as it crashes to earth (Japanese launch)
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Access No. 135151 | 30 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © ABC | Colour |
Pan across flat desert land to rocket launch site. Interview with Fred Eske, General Manager, Support Services of BAE Systems confirming BAE Systems has a program operating at Woomera Rocket Range. Interview with postal worker, Rob Dillon and VS of postal office activities. Pan from neon sign for ELDO Hotel and pan to exterior of hotel entrance. Interior shots of group at dinner farewelling couple leaving Woomera, Murray and Merran Tschirpig. Father Jim Monaghan comments on the current state of world affairs would indicate that Woomera has a prosperous future based on the weapons testing industry.
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Access No. 135152 | 1 min 57 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
PAN Soldier applying camouflage paint to CU soldier's hand holding butt of gun. ECU back pack being lifted up onto soldier's back; ZOOM to soldier reaching to ground for rifle. PAN soldier lifting up rifle. LS soldier holding rifle. Soldier in camouflage gear standing up and lifting strap over his head, under his arms. Soldiers with rifles seated in back of army truck; back of truck being closed. Two Army trucks driving out of large building (credits).ECU backpack on soldier walking away from camera; other soldiers spread out on land ahead
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Access No. 135165 | 1 min 7 secs | 2000s | Williamstown, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
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