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Sounds Like Australia

This beautifully crafted film interweaves the sounds of nature and song recordings of rare Australian birds with synthesized music that celebrates the Australian landscape and its wildlife.
Year : 1987 | Total Duration : 53.5 Minutes | Producer : Tristram Miall
Director : Jamie Robertson |
Looking down at keyboard of synthesiser. Hands into shot play keyboard.
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Access No. 36162 | 17 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
2 shots. Time-lapse. Top of snow covered mountain ridge. Mist and clouds swirling above.
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Access No. 39047 | 14 secs | 1980s | New England National Park, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Microphotography of moving lines as crystals develop.
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Access No. 39049 | 11 secs | 1980s | © Mantis Wildlife Films | Colour |
Stalks of grass with icicles lit by orange light.
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Access No. 39050 | 2 secs | 1980s | Dorrigo, New England National Park, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Microphotography . Geometrical patterns formed as crystals develop.
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Access No. 39051 | 13 secs | 1980s | © Mantis Wildlife Films | Colour |
Various shots of water drop running down or dripping off icicles and ice formations.
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Access No. 39053 | 10 secs | 1980s | Dorrigo, New England National Park, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Microphotography. Multi coloured geometrical patterns formed as crystals develop.
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Access No. 39054 | 1 sec | 1980s | © Mantis Wildlife Films | Colour |
Looking through ECU snow formation with sun shafting over mountain in BG and lighting snow to orange yellow.
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Access No. 39055 | 1 sec | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Microphotography. Orange coloured pattern formed as crystals develop.
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Access No. 39056 | 5 secs | 1980s | © Mantis Wildlife Films | Colour |
Sunset bright white and yellow sun distorted by smoke from roaring fire on horizon. Orange sky with a few silhouetted birds flying.
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Access No. 39057 | 4 secs | 1980s | Katherine, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Out of focus CU silhouetted plants against brilliant sunset orange sky, Pull focus to MWS.
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Access No. 39058 | 1 sec | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Microphotography. Multi coloured geometrical patterns formed as crystals develop.
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Access No. 39059 | 9 secs | 1980s | © Mantis Wildlife Films | Colour |
Billows of smoke rising from fire. Lit by sunset orange light. Pandas palms in silhouette.
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Access No. 39060 | 3 secs | 1980s | Katherine, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Microphotography green coloured pattern forms as crystals develop.
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Access No. 39061 | 4 secs | 1980s | © Mantis Wildlife Films | Colour |
Looking into rainforest. Bed of rocky stream in foreground with trickles of water, heavy green foliage in BG with shafts of white misty light. Looking through almost silhouetted foliage with light shafting on mist.
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Access No. 39062 | 6 secs | 1980s | Dorrigo Rainforest, New England, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Microphotography. Multi coloured geometrical patterns formed as crystals develop.
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Access No. 39064 | 4 secs | 1980s | © Mantis Wildlife Films | Colour |
Looking into rippling water with reflection of plant stalks. Up to show stalks of plants in water.
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Access No. 39065 | 7 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Microphotography. Multi coloured geometrical patterns formed as crystals develop.
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Access No. 39066 | 7 secs | 1980s | © Mantis Wildlife Films | Colour |
Leaves floating on still water in orange light.
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Access No. 39067 | 3 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Microphotography. Multi coloured geometrical patterns formed as crystals develop.
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Access No. 39068 | 8 secs | 1980s | © Mantis Wildlife Films | Colour |
Waterfall spilling over rockface in two places into rockpool. CU of waterfall spalshing over edge of rock and tilt up to brilliant blue sky. Pan across misty mountain range lit in soft blue, pink and purple shadows.
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Access No. 39069 | 36 secs | 1980s | Dangar Falls and Wollomombi, New England National Park, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Pan of rainforest. Tall straight trees in BG, palms in foreground. Side profile of Lyre bird calling. Good shots.
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Access No. 39072 | 39 secs | 1980s | Dorrigo Rainforest, New England National Park, NSW, Sherbrook Forest, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Reel to reel tape recorder running in bush land capturing sounds of birds. Microphotography of a droplet of water reflecting the turning reel on tape recorder. CU on two fern leaves with water dripping from them.
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Access No. 39074 | 9 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU on a hand placing large floppy disk into computer drive. Lit by orange light.
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Access No. 39077 | 4 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Aerial of mountain range in misty fog and lit in dark pink light. Wisps of cloud against blue sky then tilt down to a blue tongue lizard sitting on a computer monitor and an echinda on a Fairlight keyboard. VS Kevin Peek, musician, composing on Fairlight keyboard in studio with engineer Ric Curtin. CU of audio engineer using sound mixing desk. CU of fingers on keys of keyboard. CU on reel to reel tape recorder and tilt up to a gold record mounted on the wall for the music group, Sky.
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Access No. 39078 | 1 min 17 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Good shots of small blazing sunset orange sun shafting through silhouetted trees, circles of red light moving in and out. Good shots of large sunset yellow sun against red sky, water birds in silhouette wading in orange lit water, camera follows magpie goose as it takes off and flies right to left. POV along river. Jabiru in silhouette, egrets and magpie geese in long grass. Heron in water with fish, others flapping around it.
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Access No. 39093 | 1 min 27 secs | 1980s | Kakadu, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Glossy Ibises come in to land, heron coming in to land with fish. VS Birds flying right to left across camera against yellow and red grassy BG. CU legs of jabiru walking through orange lit shallow water. Jacana or lily trotter on lilies. Commorant takes off. POV along wetland looking up at white breasted eagle.
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Access No. 39106 | 46 secs | 1980s | Kakadu National Park, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Jim Frazier, wildlife cinematographer, standing with camera on boat moving down river.
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Access No. 39114 | 9 secs | 1980s | Kakadu, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
LS of a crocodile laying on river bank in sunset light. Spoonbill flying low over water. Small aluminium boat along river left to right. Jim Frazier, cinematographer, standing in bow with camera. Two men seated in back of boat, one is sound recordist. POV along river with shallow water and wet land. Men filming white egret or heron, filming and recording (Max Hensser) as bird flies away.
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Access No. 39115 | 41 secs | 1980s | Kakadu, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Small aluminium boat along river left to right. Jim Frazier, cinematographer, standing in bow with camera. Two men seated in back of boat, one is sound recordist. POV along river with shallow water and wet land. Men filming white egret or heron, VS filming and recording (Max Hensser) as bird flies away.
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Access No. 39117 | 34 secs | 1980s | Kakadu, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Mars Lasar, composer and Fairlight operator, working with cinematographer Jim Frazier with bird sounds. VS computer equipment.
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Access No. 39126 | 26 secs | 1980s | NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Bird (bower bird) hops out of bower and looks around.
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Access No. 39134 | 5 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Hands on Fairlight keyboard.
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Access No. 39135 | 2 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Cockatoo's claws gripping log. Pink Major Mitchell cockatoo against blue BG. Shakes head and lift crest.
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Access No. 39136 | 6 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU musician Mars Lasar. High angle shot of Mars Lasar working at Fairlight keyboard and computer keyboard.
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Access No. 39138 | 10 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Good CU shots of Bower bird running away in undergrowth and into bower
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Access No. 39140 | 5 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Bird - Fork Tailed kite takes off from bare tree top branch
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Access No. 39143 | 2 secs | 1980s | Katherine, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU Mars Lasar, musician
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Access No. 39144 | 1 sec | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Looking up at Yellow fig bird, currawong, crimson rosella, King parrot looking at camera (red and green), red winged parrot, small grey brown bird, black bird with white and red chest (Mistletoe Bird).
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Access No. 39145 | 16 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Looking down on Mars Lasar playing keyboard of Fairlight.
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Access No. 39152 | 13 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Corellas in bare tee top against blue sky. WS of mist covered mountain range in grey pink light.
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Access No. 39153 | 4 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Various CUs of cicadas and grasshoppers and praying mantis.
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Access No. 39155 | 18 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Shot from ground level as feet of sound recordist Densey Clyne walk towards camera through flowers. Large spider on sand in foreground. Spider runs as feet approach. Ants running around in foreground. Densey Clyne walking toward camera in BG carrying microphone.
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Access No. 39161 | 20 secs | 1980s | Broken Hill, NSW, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
VS Grey and pink galahs in field of purple and white flowers.
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Access No. 39164 | 9 secs | 1980s | Broken Hill, NSW, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Looking across wetland to cameraman Jim Frazier and sound recordist Max Hennser. Various good shots of giant flocks of whistling ducks taking off and in flight. Some shots of sound recordist
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Access No. 39166 | 1 min 27 secs | 1980s | Kakadu, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU Music sheet, pull back to show music book, then out again to show musician Kevin Peek playing guitar.
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Access No. 39175 | 23 secs | 1980s | WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS of two emus walking in scrubby saltbush landscape. Good shots empty wide plain of saltbush with flat straight horizon and blue sky, saltpans. Various shots Densey Clyne pointing stills camera at face of emu as it sits on nest, some shots of it snapping and pecking at camera including seen through lens. Emus walking across grass. Good shot of single emu and good CU's of their feet. Montage of shots - musician Kevin Peek and engineer Ric Curtin in studio working with sound of emu, various shots emus.
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Access No. 39176 | 1 min 28 secs | 1980s | Central Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Black and white Pied Butcher Bird in bare tree making sound
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Access No. 39193 | 6 secs | 1980s | Kinchega, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Sound engineer, Ric Curtin, CU of his face and dissolve into sound level gauge.
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Access No. 39194 | 5 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Various shots of Pied Butcher Bird in bare tree against blue sky making sound.
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Access No. 39196 | 12 secs | 1980s | Kinchega, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS of three emus walking across flat grass land off saltbush.
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Access No. 39199 | 5 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
VS Musician Kevin Peek and engineer Ric Curtin in studio experimenting with bird song recordings. CU on computer display. CU on keyboard.
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Access No. 39200 | 41 secs | 1980s | WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Black and white Pied Butcher Bird in bare tree making sound. Two butcher birds in tree in evening light.
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Access No. 39207 | 20 secs | 1980s | Kinchega, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Camera follows emu, emu in silhouette against blue sky.
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Access No. 39209 | 6 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
VS Musician Kevin Peek and engineer Ric Curtin in studio playing music with recordings of bird sounds. Moving needle on VU meter.
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Access No. 39210 | 40 secs | 1980s | WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS of flat saltbush plain, heat haze and distorted trees in BG. Pied Butcher Bird in bare tree. Pair butcher birds.
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Access No. 39213 | 10 secs | 1980s | Kinchega, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU shots of emus walking back and forth in front of camera, turn and run away over hill.
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Access No. 39216 | 31 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Legs walking across grass carrying camera tripod, pan up to show cameraman Jim Frazier with camera in red sunset sky. Good shots of spectaular sunset across wetlands and Frazier filming. Good shot flock of birds flying over full orange sun. Silhouette Frazier carrying tripod. Musician Kevin Peek, sound recordist Densey Clyne and cinematographer Jim Frazier sitting around coffee table talking about birds and their sounds particularly the Golden Whistler.
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Access No. 39218 | 1 min 14 secs | 1980s | Kakadu, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Small yellow bird Golden Whistler siting on branch singing, takes off and flies out of shot.
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Access No. 39224 | 7 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Mars Lasar, musician at Mark 3 Fairlight keyboard and monitor working with bird song
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Access No. 39225 | 23 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
White heron in shallow water lit by orange sunset light, MS spoonbills in water, rainbow lorikeet, crimson rosella (2 shots) King parrot (green and red), currawong (yellow eye), native shining starlings nesting (red eyes) , whip bird, red browed finches in branches, bower bird, brown falcon, red capped robin, small brown bird, red winged parrot .
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Access No. 39227 | 40 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
2 galahs on top of bare branches of tree against blue sky, blue-winged kookaburra, fork tailed kite, blue-faced honeyeater, several peewees (magpie larks), pied heron, willy wagtail, red-browed robin, currawong, golden whistler, sunbird, riflebird on tree trunk.
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Access No. 39242 | 39 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Musician Kevin Peek, sound recordist Densey Clyne and cinematographer Jim Frazier sitting around coffee table talking about birds and their sounds particularly the Victorian Rifle Bird
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Access No. 39254 | 19 secs | 1980s | Dural, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Victorian Rifle bird sitting on top of tree stump. Opens mouth and squawks.
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Access No. 39255 | 7 secs | 1980s | Near Innisfail, North Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Musician Kevin Peek, sound recordist Densey Clyne and cinematographer Jim Frazier sitting around coffee table talking about the Victorian Rifle Bird
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Access No. 39256 | 4 secs | 1980s | Dural, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Victorian Rifle bird on stump of tree with wings spread in dramatic courtship display to female . VS bird and Jim Frazier filming from hide including shot of eye looking at camera, iris of camera lens closes around eye.
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Access No. 39257 | 59 secs | 1980s | Near Innisfail, North Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Water lit with orange light, up to trees in rainforest in BG. Large yellow and black caterpillars on leaves.
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Access No. 39268 | 9 secs | 1980s | Dorrigo Rainforest, New England National Park, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Hands playing musical keyboard. CU faces of musicians Marrs Lasar, Kevin Peek and cinematographer Jim Frazier. CU hands playing on keyboard as Mars demonstrates Fairlight technology. Looking through doorway at Densey Clyne working in office at typewriter. Across top of typewriter being used to open book with illustration of butterflies.
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Access No. 39270 | 45 secs | 1980s | NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Good CUs of a variety coloured butterflies on different flowers including CU proboscis. Musicians Kevin Peek and Mars Lasar sitting with cinematographer Jim Frazier with backs to camera behind mixing consol looking at images of butterfly projected on screen. They talk about the sound they can use for a butterfly.
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Access No. 39286 | 55 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS of two corellas in tree. They are preening each other and rubbing their heads together. Musicians Kevin Peek and Mars Lasar sitting with cinematographer Jim Frazier by mixing consol talking about the sound of a corella. MS two corellas in tree. 2 Corellas in tree. They are entwining their claws and preening each other. Large flock of white corellas flying past camera left to right among trees. Good VS flock and CU's of individual corellas and pairs together. Musicians Kevin Peek and Mars Lasar sitting with cinematographer Jim Frazier
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Access No. 39291 | 1 min 50 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Air to air shot helicopter flying over Bungle Bungle mountains. Some shots of musician Kevin Peek in cockpit. helicopter in silhouette landing. Some aerials of ranges also ground shots of helicopter flying and landing at dusk. Various shots of men lit by campfire talking. One is Kevin Peek the other is the helicopter pilot who flew them over the Bungle Bungles. Good CU camp fire and sparks.
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Access No. 39303 | 1 min 38 secs | 1980s | Bungle Bungles, WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Full moon in evening blue sky with Bungle Bungles in silhouette. VS dawn and sun rising. Musician Kevin Peek recording sound. VS looking up at ranges. Back at camp, Kevin talks to helicopter pilot. Good CU billy can in camp fire. Looking across at small homestead or farmhouse set in green valley with scattered trees.
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Access No. 39317 | 1 min 12 secs | 1980s | Bungle Bungles, WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Looking down at musician Kevin Peek at Fairlight keyboard. Engineer Ric Curtin mixing sound and music. VS both men at work, some shots of equipment and computer monitor.
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Access No. 39328 | 53 secs | 1980s | WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Aerial over outback and towards Bungle Bungles. Ground to air and air to air shots helicopter over Bungle Bungles, good swooping low aerials.
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Access No. 39337 | 1 min 43 secs | 1980s | Bungle Bungles, WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Montage of shots showing musician Mars Lasar at Fairlight keyboard superimposed against red flames and smoke. Good shots of flames of bush fire burning through tall grass. Looking across sparse bush to clouds of billowing smoke rising from bush fire in BG. Birds wheeling and flying above and through thick black smoke, mainly hawks and kites, feeding on grasshoppers driven out after fire. Some birds in trees, some birds on road. Smoke drifting among trees after bush fire. Black cockatoos on ground feeding, silhouetted in tree, golden light, in flight. Full sun setting
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Access No. 46718 | 2 mins 16 secs | 1980s | near Katherine, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Looking up at kookaburras in trees backlit by shafts of light against blue sky. VS kookaburras laughing and making sound of castanets as they shake their heads.
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Access No. 46743 | 27 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
3 shots of hands. One clicking fingers., one on music keyboard and one on guitar. Montage shots musician Kevin Peek playing guitar in bush to Spanish tune, kookaburras laughing in trees and cinematographer Jim Frazier filming and recording sound. Good shots of single kookaburras.
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Access No. 46748 | 55 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Good shot lyre bird on branch calling, mimicking other bird sounds such as kookabuura laugh and whip bird.
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Access No. 46763 | 1 min 25 secs | 1980s | Sherbrook Forest, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Musicians Mars Lasar and Kevin Peek with cinematographer Jim Frazier in studio listening to bird calls including lyre bird. Lasar seated at Fairlight keyboard. Various shots lyre bird in tree calling intercut with shots of Mars Lasar, Kevin Peek and Jim Frazier in studio, computer monitor comparing lyre bird mimic to real bird call. Musicians Mars Lasar and Kevin Peek in studio with cinematographer Jim Frazier. Lasar is at Fairlight keyboard and Peek picks up guitar and starts to play music with bird sound. Shots of computer screen.
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Access No. 46764 | 3 mins 16 secs | 1980s | Sherbrook Forest, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Various shots of lyre bird walking and scratching in ground in forest and calling, cinematographer Jim Frazier carrying tripod through forest and filming. Good Cu of palm frond and good shots of lyre bird.
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Access No. 46781 | 1 min 54 secs | 1980s | Sherbrook Forest, Vic , Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU's reel to reel tape recorder. Shots of musicians Mars Lasar and Kevin Peek in studio
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Access No. 46795 | 11 secs | 1980s | NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Pan across Katherine Gorge. CU Frog or toad sitting in water, CU eyes blinking. Musicians Mars Lasar and Kevin Peek in studio . Frog sitting on dry branch in foreground. Red desert sand in mid shot and water with dead tree trunks in BG. POV boat travelling along Katherine Gorge
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Access No. 46797 | 1 min 4 secs | 1980s | Katherine, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Various CU's cicadas
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Access No. 46806 | 12 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
POV boat as it passes along water way close past overhanging trees, then past cliff faces of Katherine Gorge. Musicians Mars Lasar and Kevin Peek in studio composing music with natural sounds using guitar and Fairlight technology. Fork tailed kite soaring above rocky outcrop, flying against blue sky
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Access No. 46808 | 1 min 6 secs | 1980s | Katherine, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Various CU shots of crocodiles and goanna intercut with shots of musicians Mars Lasar and Kevin Peek in studio composing music with natural sounds using guitar and Fairlight technology. ood shoto POV boat along wetland at sunset.
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Access No. 46813 | 2 mins 2 secs | 1980s | Kakadu, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Sound recordist Densey Clyne walking across camera right to left carrying microphone. As she passes in BG a grass hopper appears in CU in foreground. Pink and grey galahs in field of purple and white flowers. CU Cicada on branch.
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Access No. 46822 | 22 secs | 1980s | Central Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Frog on branch in foreground, Red desert earth and water with dead tree trunks in BG. Various shots birds calling - red backed kingfisher, yellow eyed honey eater, yellow oriole, yellow figbird, wonga pigeon, white breasted finches, currawong (2 shots), pied butcher bird, corella and tree of corellas, pied pelican flying to camera, 2 more shots pelicans. Magpie geese and other water birds, group of magpie geese in water, single bird flying and landing, single heron walking in water, group of herons and spoonbills, single heron catching fish. Misty waterway at sunset, huge flock of whistling ducks take off from water.
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Access No. 46827 | 1 min 31 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Looking through dense forest with rain, rain on leaves, CU of sleet or hail falling. Shelf of ice with water running underneath. Looking across tree studded snow covered hills lit by orange light. Single hawk flying past snow covered hills, Echidna walking in snow.
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Access No. 46843 | 20 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Time-lapse icy snow dissolving melting from branch, 2 shots. Various shots ice and ECU running water, water droplets splashing in air can be seen
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Access No. 46849 | 23 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Mosquitos or insects dancing in front of lens backlit (as if on hot evening). Sunset lit tree trunk. Good shot leaf moving along waterway. Sunlight gleaming and glimmering on water. Rock pool with sunlight reflecting of rock face. Platypus floating on top of water. Dives under., underwater shot of it swimming. Two ducks on sunset lit water. Both take off and camera follows one as it flies right to left. Pan of water flowing over flat rocks to soft sunset lit bush behind.
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Access No. 46855 | 30 secs | 1980s | Dorrigo?, New England National Park, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
HAS zoom in to large waterfall. Good shot. Pan down water as it falls. CU vegetation with spray. Droplets of water falling from leaves and ferns. Droplets of water falling on to mushrooms, toadstools on rainforest floor. ECU Snail, weaver ant, millipede, sun bird singing , rifle bird displaying
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Access No. 46865 | 40 secs | 1980s | Dangar Falls, Dorrigo, New England National Park, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS mist covered valley and mountain range in sunset light.
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Access No. 46877 | 3 secs | 1980s | Wollomombi, New England National Park, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Shafts of sun light in rainforest, mist. Yellow robin hops on branch then sits on nest.2 shots shafts of light through trees and fern leaves. Lyre bird on branch in forest calling. Whip bird on branch in silhouette against red sunset lit forest.
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Access No. 46878 | 25 secs | 1980s | Dorrigo, New England National Park, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Moth or butterfly unfurling wings from chrysalis stage?
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Access No. 46883 | 13 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Green and black butterfly flapping wings with pink flowers in BG. Rainbow lorikeet feeding on flower. Shafts of sunlight through palm fronds of rain forest
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Access No. 46886 | 15 secs | 1980s | Dorrigo, New England National Park, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Green and white growing crystal pattern of ice forming.
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Access No. 46889 | 5 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Mantis Wildlife Films | Colour |
Smoke billowing around pandanas trees. Many hawks flying close to smoke and flames, good shots bushfire.
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Access No. 46890 | 33 secs | 1980s | Katherine, NT , Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Silhouetted trees against sunset sky. POV boat across wetlands. Various shots of water birds silhouetted against red orange sunset sky. Large yellow sun against orange sky. CU beautiful rippling water.
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Access No. 46897 | 42 secs | 1980s | Kakadu, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Time-lapse clouds moving across flat plain with rocky outcrops in BG.
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Access No. 46900 | 3 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Pan across misty valley with homestead at end of shot.
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Access No. 46901 | 5 secs | 1980s | Dorrigo, New England National Park, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Bird of prey soaring against a BG of trees.
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Access No. 46902 | 2 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Camera pans around faces of rocky cliffs of Katherine Gorge with waterway in foreground. Hawk soaring among trees. Pair corellas preening each other and Ò kissingÓ in tree. Native shining starling (red eyes) on branch appears to regurgitate mall red berry. Wasp? dragging cicada into hole in ground. Good CU Kookaburra's face. Good shot of line of kookaburras sitting on branch
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Access No. 46903 | 37 secs | 1980s | Katherine, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
2 shots frilled neck lizard running away from camera across red desert sand.
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Access No. 46910 | 8 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Half moon in blue sky (day), a few birds fly by. Corella landing on branch against blue sky.
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Access No. 46911 | 9 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Frill necked lizard on flat plain with blue sky behind.
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Access No. 46913 | 3 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Hawk flying and soaring overhead, blue sky. Low swooping aerial Bungle Bungles
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Access No. 46914 | 25 secs | 1980s | Katherine, NT, & Bungle Bungles, WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
2 shots of sunset over water, time-lapse clouds.
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Access No. 46916 | 13 secs | 1980s | Kakadu, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
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