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Twenty-one year-old Charles Darwin convinces his father to allow him a gap year before settling down Ð it turns into a miraculous five-year voyage of discovery across the Southern Hemisphere which transforms him and gives birth to a revolutionary scientific theory.
Series : Darwin's Brave New World | Episode : 1 | Year : 2009 | Total Duration : 54 Minutes |
Hull of boat underwater, re-enactment of sailors hoisting sails on tall ship, aerials over ship. Underwater view of net trawling off ship, being emptied on deck. Re-enactment of a young Charles Darwin with Covington and others looking at catch. Albatross flying, birds-eye view over ship. Darwin's silhouette from below as he plunges into sea.
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Access No. 148204 | 1 min 48 secs | 2000s | © NFSA | Colour |
Travelling aerial over mist on lake, Rhinebeck, New York.
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Access No. 149678 | 2 secs | 2000s | New York, USA | © Oxford Scientific Films Photolibrary | Colour |
Re-enactment of a young Charles Darwin rubbing noses with Maori warrior, Darwin climbing tree.
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Access No. 149679 | 2 secs | | New Zealand | © NFSA | Colour |
MS armadillo wading through water plants, South America. MS iguana.
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Access No. 149680 | 2 secs | 2000s | South America | © Oxford Scientific Films | Colour |
GS platypus floating on water surface then diving.
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Access No. 149681 | 1 sec | 2000s | Australia | © Absolutely Wild Visuals | Colour |
Re-enactment of Charles Darwin walking through dappled forest with butterfly net, tilt to palm fronds and canopy beyond Darwin. VS Darwin examining insects with magnifying glass and short clips of Darwin with birds and animals to be seen later.
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Access No. 149682 | 38 secs | | New Zealand | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
WS polar bear with cub play-fighting in snow, CU sloth, slow-motion hummingbird in air, CU Venus Fly Trap closing over green insect, green chameleon camouflaged against leaves flicking tongue out and eating cricket, slow-motion underwater footage of manta rays.
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Access No. 149687 | 11 secs | 2000s | © Oxford Scientific Films | Colour |
MS interview with David Suzuki talking about evolution.
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Access No. 149688 | 4 secs | 2000s | New Zealand | © NFSA | Colour |
Re-enactment of Charles Darwin at work, superimposed projections over him as he sits at desk. Fast unfocussed pan through forest of trees. Darwin looking up in forest, CU examining butterfly on tree trunk.
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Access No. 149689 | 19 secs | | New Zealand | © NFSA | Colour |
CU swarm of bees. ECU time-lapse of bee being carried by mass of ants.
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Access No. 149690 | 5 secs | 2000s | © BBC Worldwide Canada | Colour |
Re-enactment of meeting in hall, people laughing. Montage of various re-enactment scenes seen in full later in program.
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Access No. 149691 | 46 secs | | England, UK | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
MS interview with Iain McCalman.
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Access No. 149692 | 3 secs | 2000s | © NFSA | Colour |
Re-enactment CU of Charles Darwin examining snail held in fingers.
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Access No. 149693 | 4 secs | | © NFSA | Colour |
Sequence of changing natural images appearing in boxed sections of collectors cabinet.
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Access No. 149694 | 11 secs | 2000s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Re-enactment scenes of Charles Darwin aboard ship. Opening titles. Aerials of the ship Beagle at sea. Conversations between naturalist Charles Darwin and the Captain Robert Fitzroy.
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Access No. 149695 | 1 min 27 secs | | © NFSA | Colour |
Animation on map of the world tracing Charles Darwin's ship Beagle between countries during his 1832-5 journey.
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Access No. 149696 | 49 secs | | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
MS interview with Professor Iain McCalman talking about Charles Darwin's time on the Galapagos Islands.
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Access No. 149697 | 10 secs | 2000s | New Zealand | © NFSA | Colour |
Aerials over replica of ship Beagle at sea. Re-enactment scenes of Charles Darwin aboard ship. Opening titles. Aerials of the ship Beagle at sea. Conversations between naturalist Charles Darwin and the Captain Robert Fitzroy. Activity on ship's deck, tilt straight up mast and rope webbing. WS Bay of Islands, Darwin on deck with notebooks, Covington working beside Darwin on deck.
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Access No. 149698 | 47 secs | | Bay of Islands, New Zealand | © NFSA | Colour |
MS interview with Professor Iain McCalman talking about Charles Darwin's studies on islands.
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Access No. 149699 | 7 secs | 2000s | New Zealand | © NFSA | Colour |
Re-enactment scenes of Charles Darwin aboard ship working with Covington on deck.
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Access No. 149700 | 7 secs | 2000s | Bay of Islands, New Zealand | © NFSA | Colour |
MS interview with Professor Iain McCalman talking about Charles Darwin's studies on human nature.
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Access No. 149701 | 4 secs | 2000s | © NFSA | Colour |
Re-enactment scenes of Charles Darwin aboard ship hammering box shut.
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Access No. 149702 | 4 secs | | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival still of paining "Korakadika Beach" by Augustus Earle.
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Access No. 149703 | 8 secs | 1890s | © National Library of Australia | Colour |
Archival B&W illustration of convicts at Hyde Park Barracks "A government jail gang, Sydney, NS Wales".
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Access No. 149704 | 5 secs | 1800s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © National Library of Australia | Colour |
Zoom out from preacher with indigenous crowd in painting "The Rev. J. Waterhouse superintending the landing of missionaries, Rev. Charles & Mrs Creed at Taranaki, New Zealand".
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Access No. 149705 | 6 secs | 1800s | New Zealand | © National Library of Australia | Colour |
Archival still of painting with Maori sitting next to boats on shore "War Speech".
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Access No. 149706 | 5 secs | 1800s | New Zealand | © National Library of Australia | Colour |
Zoom in to B&W illustration of Maori performing Haka "New Zealand Dancer" by Augustus Earle.
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Access No. 149708 | 4 secs | 1800s | New Zealand | © National Library of Australia | Colour |
Re-enactment scenes of Maori warriors doing Hakka, Charles Darwin, ship's captain Robert Fitzroy and Covington walking towards them on beach.
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Access No. 149709 | 39 secs | | Bay of Islands, New Zealand | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
MS interview with Professor Iain McCalman talking about Charles Darwin's first encounter with Maori culture.
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Access No. 149710 | 7 secs | 2000s | © NFSA | Colour |
Re-enactment scenes of Maori warriors doing Hakka.
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Access No. 149711 | 4 secs | | Bay of Islands, New Zealand | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
MS interview with Professor Iain McCalman talking about Charles Darwin's first encounter with Maori culture.
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Access No. 149712 | 3 secs | 2000s | © NFSA | Colour |
Re-enactment scenes of Maori warriors, Charles Darwin rubbing noses in greeting with warrior and VS Darwin and captain Robert Fitzroy walking through forest with nets in hand. Darwin and Fitzroy observing domesticated Maori maid at Mission. Darwin collecting beetle. Flashback to Darwin as a boy collecting things from garden. Projected images of insects across boy Darwin's face, boy lying on ground playing with spinning disc with bird image on it.
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Access No. 149713 | 1 min 20 secs | | Bay of Islands, New Zealand | © NFSA | Colour |
Exterior Cambridge University College buildings. Re-enactment of Charles Darwin conversing with Professor Sedgwick in darkened corridor. Darwin conversing with his father. Darwin walking through kauri forest. CUs European rat. VS Darwin drawing rat in notebook.
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Access No. 149714 | 1 min 36 secs | 2000s | England; New Zealand | © NFSA | Colour |
MS interview with Professor Mick Clout talking about predatory nature of the European rat.
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Access No. 149715 | 7 secs | 2000s | © NFSA | Colour |
European rat in tree, CUs kiwi through forest floor, native bird perched on hanging vine. Rat running on grass towards camera.
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Access No. 149716 | 11 secs | 2000s | New Zealand | © NFSA | Colour |
MS interview with Professor Mick Clout talking about predatory European rat and replacement of species.
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Access No. 149717 | 7 secs | 2000s | © NFSA | Colour |
Re-enactment with pan up from babbling brook to Charles Darwin writing notes in fern forest. Darwin through forest.
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Access No. 149718 | 27 secs | | New Zealand | © NFSA | Colour |
MS interview with Professor Mick Clout talking about Darwin's time in New Zealand.
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Access No. 149719 | 10 secs | 2000s | © NFSA | Colour |
Re-enactment of Charles Darwin's ship Beagle at sea. Darwin surveying land from ship with telescope, VS coast of Sydney harbour.
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Access No. 149720 | 27 secs | | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Painting of Sydney Cove "The entrance of Port Jackson and part of the town of Sydney" by Havell.
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Access No. 149721 | 8 secs | 1800s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © National Library of Australia | Colour |
Painting "View of Sydney Hotel" by Augustus Earle.
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Access No. 149722 | 5 secs | 1800s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © National Library of Australia | Colour |
Painting with view of Sydney with windmill "The town of Sydney in new South Wales" by Havell.
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Access No. 149723 | 6 secs | 1800s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © National Library of Australia | Colour |
Re-enactment with horse led across screen, Charles Darwin with artist Conrad Martins strolling in front of building.
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Access No. 149724 | 51 secs | | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS interview with Professor Henry Reynolds talking about the class structure in the time of Charles Darwin.
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Access No. 149725 | 7 secs | 2000s | © NFSA | Colour |
Re-enactment of Charles Darwin with artist Conrad Martins strolling in front of building amidst others.
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Access No. 149726 | 7 secs | | © NFSA | Colour |
MS interview with Professor Henry Reynolds talking about the class structure in the time of Charles Darwin.
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Access No. 149727 | 5 secs | 2000s | © NFSA | Colour |
ECU ants running along ground, blur then focus to skulls on ground. Pan prism effect beyond rays of sun.
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Access No. 149728 | 7 secs | 2000s | © NFSA | Colour |
Re-enactment LS to Charles Darwin across dry Australian countryside. Darwin tethering horse, Noisy Minor in Casuarina tree, WS pale dry landscape. Darwin drawing, high shot over wallaby. Aboriginal men from the Darag Nation approaching Darwin. Darwin conversing with men and throwing spear.
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Access No. 149729 | 1 min 17 secs | | Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Zoom out from painting of Aboriginal men spearing emus "Two Aborigines Hunting Emus" by Joseph Lycett.
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Access No. 149730 | 6 secs | 1800s | Australia | © National Library of Australia | Colour |
Zoom in to painting of Aboriginal people by water "Distant View of Sydney and the Harbour" by Joseph Lycett.
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Access No. 149731 | 6 secs | 1800s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © National Library of Australia | Colour |
MS interview with Professor Henry Reynolds talking about the colonisers treatment of Aboriginal people.
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Access No. 149732 | 6 secs | 2000s | © NFSA | Colour |
Zoom in to B&W illustration of Aboriginal people being hunted and massacred in "Mounted police and Blacks" from "Our Antipodes" by Mundy.
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Access No. 149733 | 6 secs | 1800s | Australia | © National Library of Australia | B&W |
Painting of dispossessed Aboriginal family group at campfire next to colonial house "A Native family of New South Wales" by Augustus Earle.
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Access No. 149734 | 5 secs | 1800s | Australia | © National Library of Australia | Colour |
MS interview with Professor Henry Reynolds talking about the colonisers treatment of Aboriginal people.
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Access No. 149735 | 4 secs | 2000s | © NFSA | Colour |
CU painting of Aboriginal woman wrapped in blanket "Natives of New South Wales".
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Access No. 149736 | 12 secs | 1800s | Australia | © National Library of Australia | Colour |
Re-enactment MS Charles Darwin sitting against tree, writing in journal. MS group of Aboriginal men slowly walking towards camera then away.
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Access No. 149738 | 35 secs | | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS interview with Professor Iain McCalman talking about Charles Darwin and the theory of natural selection.
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Access No. 149739 | 8 secs | 2000s | © NFSA | Colour |
Re-enactment Charles Darwin sitting against tree, writing in journal.
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Access No. 149740 | 5 secs | | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS interview with Professor Iain McCalman talking about Charles Darwin and the theory of natural selection.
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Access No. 149741 | 4 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Male King Parrot in tree. Good pan across blue tinged cliffs and valleys of Blue Mountains.
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Access No. 149742 | 13 secs | 2000s | Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Re-enactment Charles Darwin riding horse along bush track.
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Access No. 149743 | 13 secs | | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Sulphur-crested Cockatoos at waters edge.
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Access No. 149744 | 7 secs | 2000s | Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia | © Oxford Scientific Films | Colour |
Re-enactment LS Charles Darwin walking around stream.
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Access No. 149745 | 10 secs | | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Track of Australian Magpie in flight.
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Access No. 149746 | 4 secs | 2000s | Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia | © Absolutely Wild Visuals | Colour |
Re-enactment MS Charles Darwin crouching near stream.
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Access No. 149747 | 3 secs | | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
High CU over platypus swimming.
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Access No. 149748 | 7 secs | 2000s | Australia | © BBC Worldwide Canada | Colour |
Re-enactment MS Charles Darwin squatting by stream.
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Access No. 149750 | 3 secs | | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Underwater view of platypus swimming in slow-motion to river bed.
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Access No. 149752 | 6 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Oxford Scientific Films | Colour |
Re-enactment MS Charles Darwin squatting down by patch of earth.
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Access No. 149753 | 8 secs | | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
ECU Lion Ant digging in soil.
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Access No. 149754 | 4 secs | 2000s | © Absolutely Wild Visuals | Colour |
Re-enactment MS Charles Darwin squatting down poking at ground with stick.
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Access No. 149755 | 4 secs | | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
ECU Lion Ant digging in soil.
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Access No. 149756 | 2 secs | 2000s | © Absolutely Wild Visuals | Colour |
CU scorpion, ECU pinned and tagged beetles. Montage of time-lapse changing images of fauna and flora framed within backlit collection display cabinets. ECU hand pinning insects to board surface. VS pinned insect specimens. CU cabinet draw closing.
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Access No. 149757 | 32 secs | 2000s | © NFSA | Colour |
Blur to focus on sparkling water around rock in stream. Re-enactment MS Charles Darwin writing in his journal outdoors.
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Access No. 149758 | 6 secs | | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Pair of Glossy Black Cockatoos on branch, one taking flight displaying red underwing feathers. CU track echidna shuffling past camera. Track kangaroo bounding through pink-tinged native grasses.
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Access No. 149759 | 7 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Oxford Scientific Films | Colour |
Re-enactment MS Charles Darwin in countryside looking contemplative. Tilt to Time-lapse swelling clouds in blue sky.
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Access No. 149760 | 7 secs | | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS interview with Professor Iain McCalman talking about Charles Darwin's testings of theories.
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Access No. 149761 | 11 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Re-enactment travelling aerial over Charles Darwin's ship at sea.
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Access No. 149762 | 12 secs | | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Animated journey on nineteenth-century map tracing the journey of the ship Beagle from Australia through the Indian Ocean to the Cocos Keeling Islands.
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Access No. 149763 | 19 secs | 2000s | © NFSA | Colour |
Re-enactment of rope on ships deck, sailors working sails, Darwin reading book on deck.
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Access No. 149764 | 11 secs | | © NFSA | Colour |
GS typical soil on Cocos & Keeling islands. Coral / rock formation.
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Access No. 149765 | 13 secs | 2000s | Cocos & Keeling Islands | © NFSA | Colour |
Re-enactment CU rope over side of boat, person (Darwin) diving into sea shot from underwater. Large fish, Darwin floating on water surface POV underwater. Pan underwater of coral and fish. Darwin swimming underwater. Darwin standing in shallow reef shouting to laughing ship's crew. Good underwater track close over branch corals and bright tropical fish. Darwin swimming and picking coral sample.
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Access No. 149766 | 58 secs | | © NFSA | Colour |
Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg surfacing in sea holding a piece of coral. CU Hoegh-Guldberg pointing out polyps to camera.
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Access No. 149767 | 37 secs | 2000s | © NFSA | Colour |
Re-enactment Darwin floating on water surface POV underwater.
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Access No. 149768 | 6 secs | | © NFSA | Colour |
Good underwater footage following school of batfish, tracks over coral, GS fish over reef.
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Access No. 149769 | 15 secs | 2000s | © NFSA | Colour |
Re-enactment of Charles Darwin swimming in sea seen from underwater.
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Access No. 149770 | 5 secs | | © NFSA | Colour |
Underwater footage over various forms of colourful corals and schools of fish. Re-enactment of feet walking along shoreline. WS palm trees on coastline. Tide splashing against shell covered rock. Tilt to tern flying in blue sky over camera.
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Access No. 149771 | 22 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Re-enactment of Charles Darwin reaching out to sea birds flying past. WS land and shore, CU Darwin holding small chick.
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Access No. 149772 | 11 secs | | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Circling tilted pan in grove of palm trees.
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Access No. 149773 | 6 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS interview with Professor Iain McCalman.
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Access No. 149774 | 8 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Plant sprouting from large seed on shore. CU sea gulls on sand, GS hermit crabs walking on sand. CU small insect on blade of grass.
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Access No. 149775 | 13 secs | 2000s | © NFSA | Colour |
Re-enactment of Charles Darwin laying his head down on sand. Helicopter aerial over replica ship the Beagle. Tilt to ship's crew in silhouetted at work on sails, purple sunset sky.
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Access No. 149776 | 32 secs | | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU palm fronds in forest.
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Access No. 149777 | 1 sec | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Platypus floating on water surface.
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Access No. 149778 | 2 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Absolutely Wild Visuals | Colour |
CU spider climbing up twig.
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Access No. 149779 | 2 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Re-enactment CU of Maori warrior with facial tattoos looking to camera, MS Aboriginal hunter.
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Access No. 149780 | 6 secs | | © NFSA | Colour |
Track kangaroo bounding through pink-tinged native grasses.
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Access No. 149781 | 1 sec | 2000s | Australia | © Oxford Scientific Films | Colour |
CU crab on sand. CU Black Noddy, bird flying against pink sunset sky.
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Access No. 149782 | 4 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Re-enactment of Charles Darwin sitting in ship against pink sunset sky. LS bird flying in pink sky. Re-enactment horse-drawn carriage towards camera along country road. CU to Charles Darwin in carriage.
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Access No. 149783 | 24 secs | | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W archival illustration of nineteenth century factory chimney stacks and workers.
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Access No. 149784 | 10 secs | 1800s | Australia | © Illustrated London News | B&W |
B&W archival illustration "Poor people in Garret"; CU 1830 Eugene Delacroix painting "Liberty Leading the People" during French Revolution.
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Access No. 149785 | 9 secs | 1800s | Australia | © Corbis Canada ULC | B&W |
B&W archival illustration "Poor at the Kiln", working class crowds.
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Access No. 149786 | 14 secs | 1800s | Australia | © Illustrated London News | B&W |
MS interview with Professor Janet Browne.
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Access No. 149787 | 8 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W archival illustration of men in speaker box watched by working class crowds. Illustration of milling crowds.
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Access No. 149788 | 10 secs | 1800s | Australia | © Illustrated London News | B&W |
Tilt pan along canopy of trees. Re-enactment of Charles Darwin leaning out of window of horsedrawn carriage. Darwin greeting his family in the family mansion.
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Access No. 149789 | 1 min 26 secs | | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Tilt up exterior of Anglican church to steeple. VS architectural details, towers and statues.
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Access No. 149790 | 31 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS interview with Professor James Moore explaining the views on evolution in Darwin's time.
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Access No. 149791 | 12 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Tilt up exterior of Anglican church tower. Good WS time-lapse pink sunset clouds across sky. Good time-lapse dark clouds across moon in night sky.
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Access No. 149792 | 13 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Re-enactment of Charles Darwin entering College buildings and entering drawing room with geologist Charles Lyell.
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Access No. 149793 | 51 secs | | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS interview with Professor James Moore explaining the reception Darwin's was to receive with his views on evolution.
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Access No. 149794 | 6 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Re-enactment of Charles Darwin socialising with gentlemen in drawing room of College.
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Access No. 149795 | 1 min 15 secs | | England, UK | © NFSA | Colour |
WS pan lawns to mansion. Swarm of flying insects, house blurred in background.
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Access No. 149796 | 19 secs | 2000s | England, UK | © NFSA | Colour |
Re-enactment of Charles Darwin with palaeontologist Richard Owen looking at skeletons.
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Access No. 149797 | 23 secs | | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Armadillo wading through water lilies.
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Access No. 149798 | 6 secs | 2000s | South America | © Oxford Scientific Films | Colour |
Re-enactment of Charles Darwin with palaeontologist Richard Owen looking through book.
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Access No. 149799 | 15 secs | | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS interview with Professor Michael Archer talking about the links Charles Darwin was making between fossils and living creatures.
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Access No. 149800 | 8 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Re-enactment of Charles Darwin with palaeontologist Richard Owen looking at fossils and skeletons.
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Access No. 149801 | 11 secs | | © NFSA | Colour |
MS Armadillo walking through grass.
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Access No. 149802 | 3 secs | 2000s | South America | © Oxford Scientific Films | Colour |
Aerial pan over bird shadows across ground.
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Access No. 149803 | 13 secs | 2000s | © BBC Worldwide Canada | Colour |
Tilt to rear view of Magnificent Frigatebird flying.
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Access No. 149804 | 3 secs | 2000s | © Oxford Scientific Films | Colour |
Aerial tracks over Galapagos Islands and over island with lake.
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Access No. 149805 | 5 secs | 2000s | Galapagos Islands | © BBC Worldwide Canada | Colour |
MS iguana.
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Access No. 149806 | 2 secs | 2000s | South America | © Oxford Scientific Films | Colour |
GS Galapagos Giant Tortoises in water.
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Access No. 149807 | 2 secs | 2000s | Galapagos Islands | © BBC Worldwide Canada | Colour |
Re-enactment of Charles Darwin handling taxidermed finches from specimen drawer in collection box. Bird's-eye view of Darwin and assistant packing up collection boxes on ship.
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Access No. 149808 | 6 secs | | England, UK | © NFSA | Colour |
CU sign for Geological society. Tilt up facade of Society building. Re-enactment of ornithologist John Gould studying specimen of finch. VS Gould discussing specimens with Charles Darwin.
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Access No. 149809 | 1 min 35 secs | | England, UK | © NFSA | Colour |
MS interview with Professor Richard Dawkins talking about interbreeding of Galapagos finches.
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Access No. 149810 | 11 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Re-enactment of ornithologist John Gould discussing finch specimens with Charles Darwin. Darwin meeting with Captain Fitzroy. Darwin sitting in garden in contemplative mood. Darwin walking towards camera, donning top hat.
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Access No. 149811 | 1 min 15 secs | | England, UK | © NFSA | Colour |
MS interview with Professor Richard Dawkins talking about evolution.
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Access No. 149812 | 12 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU Red-ruffed Lemur in tree, CU gorilla.
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Access No. 149813 | 10 secs | 2000s | © NFSA | Colour |
MS interview with Professor Jerry Coyne talking about evolution.
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Access No. 149814 | 6 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS woodpecker at work on tree, duck on pond, spider in web, ECU caterpillar under leaf, insects, CU bee on yellow flower.
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Access No. 149815 | 8 secs | 2000s | © NFSA | Colour |
Tilt to time-lapse clouds across sky between buildings. Billowing white clouds in blue sky behind statue on side of building.
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Access No. 149816 | 14 secs | 2000s | © NFSA | Colour |
Re-enactment of Charles Darwin interacting admidst scientific establishment. Zoom in to Darwin writing at desk, projected images across him. CUs of feverish Darwin dabbing his face with cloth and taking medicine.
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Access No. 149817 | 1 min 51 secs | | England, UK | © NFSA | Colour |
MS interview with Professor Janet Browne talking about illnesses Charles Darwin suffered.
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Access No. 149818 | 10 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Re-enactment of Charles Darwin writing at desk, projected images across his face. CUs of feverish Darwin.
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Access No. 149819 | 13 secs | | England, UK | © NFSA | Colour |
MS interview with Professor Janet Browne talking about illnesses Charles Darwin suffered and his state of mind.
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Access No. 149820 | 10 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Sequence of changing natural images of fauna and flora appearing in display cases. Zoom into square flickering different images of humans. Other images in squares as well as footage of Darwin in some spaces.
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Access No. 149821 | 46 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS interview with Professor Richard Dawkins talking about human evolution.
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Access No. 149822 | 7 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Animated sequence of skeletal figures evolving.
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Access No. 149823 | 6 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS interview with Professor Richard McCalman talking about Darwin's dilemma.
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Access No. 149824 | 11 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Animated sequence of changing images appearing in boxes including bones, fossils, changing human forms etc.
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Access No. 149825 | 5 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Re-enactment of Charles Darwin at his desk, stacking books and writing.
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Access No. 149826 | 13 secs | | England, UK | © NFSA | Colour |
Tilt up B&W engraving of political economist Thomas Malthus.
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Access No. 149827 | 5 secs | 1800s | Australia | © Corbis Canada ULC | B&W |
B&W illustration "Irish emigrants leave Queenstown".
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Access No. 149828 | 6 secs | 1800s | Australia | © Art Resource Inc. | B&W |
CU Great White Shark towards camera. Shark diving through school of fish.
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Access No. 149829 | 5 secs | 2000s | © Oxford Scientific Films | Colour |
B&W illustration "Homes of the Poor" from Harpers Weekly cover.
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Access No. 149830 | 5 secs | 1800s | Australia | © HarpWeek, LLC | B&W |
MS pair of hippopotamuses fighting in water.
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Access No. 149831 | 3 secs | 2000s | © Oxford Scientific Films | Colour |
Painting "Soldier Spears Maori with Gun Bayonet" by Von Tempsky.
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Access No. 149832 | 4 secs | 1800s | © Auckland War Memorial Museum | Colour |
Pair of lions preying on hyena.
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Access No. 149834 | 4 secs | 2000s | © Oxford Scientific Films | Colour |
Illustration of battle scene "Prise de Yorktown".
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Access No. 149835 | 4 secs | 1800s | © Library of Congress | Colour |
MS interview with Professor Jared Diamond talking about Darwin's ideas.
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Access No. 149836 | 10 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Good time-lapse WS of pink-tinged clouds across lake and distant mountains.
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Access No. 149837 | 4 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Re-enactment of Charles Darwin sitting in grass watching indigenous people walking slowly in distance carrying spears. MS pan Aboriginal men and boy. Darwin at his desk, stacking up books, drinking and standing in window contemplating. Zoom across country garden to house. VS Darwin taking tea with his cousin and future wife Emma, Darwin revealing his beliefs to her. Darwin showing Emma can of worms, Emma playing piano.
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Access No. 149838 | 3 mins 30 secs | | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS interview with Professor Janet Browne talking about Charles Darwin's marriage and how his beliefs sat with his wife.
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Access No. 149848 | 6 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Re-enactment of Charles Darwin in sitting room with wife Emma. VS Emma with needlework.
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Access No. 149849 | 22 secs | | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS interview with Professor Janet Browne talking about Charles Darwin's marriage and how his beliefs sat with his wife.
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Access No. 149850 | 6 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Pan across garden to side of Darwin family home, Down House, Kent. Re-enactment of Darwin on couch writing, ill with cloth over forehead and children playing around him. VS of imaginary transformations of people turning into animals, bats flying around ceiling. VS Darwin's wife and young children.
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Access No. 149851 | 1 min 29 secs | | Kent, England, UK | © NFSA | Colour |
Seabird (probably tern) in flight.
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Access No. 149852 | 4 secs | 2000s | © Oxford Scientific Films | Colour |
Wide aerial of sailing ships at sea. Re-enactment of botanist Joseph Hooker studying plants and reading journal.
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Access No. 149853 | 29 secs | | © NFSA | Colour |
WS views of Australian coastline and picturesque views of New Zealand mountains and waterways. Tilt up tree with ferns growing on trunk.
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Access No. 149854 | 12 secs | 2000s | Australia; New Zealand | © NFSA | Colour |
MS interview with Professor Iain McCalman about Darwin's increasing botanical knowledge.
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Access No. 149855 | 4 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU lichen and moss on tree trunk.
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Access No. 149856 | 4 secs | 2000s | Australia; New Zealand | © NFSA | Colour |
Re-enactment of Joseph Hooker entering greenhouse and reading letter. CU Darwin ill, reclining.
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Access No. 149857 | 32 secs | | England, UK | © NFSA | Colour |
MS interview with Professor Iain McCalman about Darwin's association with botanist Joseph Hooker.
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Access No. 149858 | 6 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
GS statue in garden. Re-enactment of Charles Darwin greeting botanist Joseph Hooker in formal garden and Vs of the pair walking and conversing. WS large house in rain. Darwin working in study, vomiting as his wife tends him. CUs Darwin writing. VS Darwin hovering over his wife Emma as she read, sitting at desk with animal specimens in glass jars. VS Darwin writing letter to Emma, sealing it with wax.
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Access No. 149859 | 3 mins 20 secs | | Kent, England, UK | © NFSA | Colour |
MS interview with Professor James Moore regarding the importance of the letter Charles Darwin wrote to his wife Emma.
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Access No. 149860 | 8 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Re-enactment of Charles Darwin at his writing desk, placing letter in drawer. CU candle flame.
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Access No. 149861 | 15 secs | | Kent, England, UK | © NFSA | Colour |
Re-enactments showing preview scenes from next episode.
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Access No. 149862 | 2 mins 21 secs | | Kent, England, UK | © NFSA | Colour |
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