FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

High angle pan across buildings of The Australian National University with mountain landscape in distance. Ws residential units with car driving towards camera. VS graduate students walking around buildings and past sculptures. Exterior shots and GS Volkswagen beetle driving past. VS John Curtin School of Medical Research, Research School of Physical Sciences, Research School of Pacific Studies and the Research School of Social Sciences. VS Sir Keith Hancock in room with student and sitting at desk lighting pipe. MS Hancock addressing camera about the establishment of the University, it's functions and operations.

VS researcher in the Elder Smith Room, Business Archives section of The Australian National University amongst rows of rolled documents and CUs leather bound ledgers. CU ledger open on table. VS gathering of academics in room for wool seminar. CUs Sir Keith Hancock, Dr Allan Barnard, Lawrence Fitzharding, Noel Butlin, Dr Robin Gollin(?) and Richard Cornish with some smoking pipes. CU's across notes, drawings, pens, ink bottles spread across desk. VS women checking proofs of University publications. CUs various books and publications.

VS outside multicultural gathering during seminar at The Australian National University. Interior shots around table with VS Professor Pryor, Prof. Dhask(?) and Dr Krishna Dahar(?) in conversation. WS students walking past the Research School of Social Sciences and tilt inside John Curtin School of Medical Research. GS Dean of School, Prof. Hugh Ennor at desk taking test tubes from lab assistant in white coat. MS Prof. Ennor addressing camera about the School's aims, the contribution of Sir Howard Florey and the staff and research being carried out by the School.

CU from bubbling liquid in test tube to track past technicians working at three benches with test tubes and bunsen burners in the Medical chemistry laboratory at The Australian National University. CU biologist heating test tube over flame. VS man heating and shaping test tubes on machinery and CUs glass blowing with distorted view of man's face seen through glass. CU tilt up liquid flooding into glass flask of Reaction Unit. VS production of chemicals.

Department of Experimental Pathology at The Australian National University with VS laboratory assistant in white coat placing rat into glass tube where electric devices measure blood pressure. VS equipment and recording of data on clipboard. VS Dept of Microbiology virus experiments on eggs. VS female laboratory assistant scraping eggshells and VS Dr Ian Marshall injecting eggs with viruses and doing further research. CU Marshall viewing virus through microscope. ECU microscopic view. VS two research scholars from the Dept of Physiology conducting nervous system experiments in small room. CUs of hands fixing electrodes, switchboard, oscilloscope impulses etc. VS Dr Raymond Blakely conducting experiments on the effects of vitamins on human tissue in the Dept of Biochemistry. VS Warburg Respirometer.

ECU baton appearing to struck camera and GS gong being struck by uniformed waitress in University House, The Australian National University. Tilt down from ceiling to dining hall with academics being seated around long set tables. CUs Professor AD Trendall performing grace in Latin with high shots of diners standing. CUs Dr Nicholas Pefsner(?), Professor Careless(?) at dining tables. GS casual coffee gathering of scholars in groups of easy chairs with VS Dr Edward Irving, Stanley Vining, Annas(?), Igor de Rachewiltz in conversation. GS academic in study. Pan across building exterior at night to man closing blinds in room.

Pan to Professor James Davidson, Dean of the Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University looking at book which he returns to shelf before addressing camera about the aims of the School and diversity of the it's work. VS of Davidson showing engravings to camera while talking about various countries.

Pan across West Samoan bay with thatched roof hut in foreground and voice over of Professor James Davidson. GS Samoans walking with coconuts in woven baskets slung across shoulders and VS women weaving baskets, one smoking pipe as she weaves. Tilt of man climbing trunk of coconut tree and chopping palm fronds.

CU track across primitive masks to GS group meeting in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the Australian National University. MS of Murray Grove lighting cigarette, Professor John Barnes and Jeremy Beckett and others. CU Beckett pointing to map of Papua New Guinea. ECU to Goroka on map. WS native village of Kundiawa and VS Dr Paula Brown greeting the native Chimbu people and writing notes as she sits talking to them. Good shots of decorated local men women and girls. VS Dr Harold Brookfield walking with locals and speaking with Brown as he records surrounding land on rough sketch map. WS landscape.

CUs pentagraph mapping the Central Highlands of Papua New Guinea in the Department of Geography at the Australian National University. VS drafting room with draftsmen at work and Professor Oscar Spate. VS spate with student and using pointer to show locations Pacific locations on wall map where field work is taking place. CU to water of Gippsland Lakes, Victoria. VS Eric Bird studying the physical geography of the lakes using test holes in shallow water to determine soil structure of the region. WS lakes. CU Chinese painting of birds on branch overhanging stream.

GS Professor Patrick FitzGerald of the Department of Far Eastern History at the Australian National University crossing room to librarian Miss Rimsky-Korsakov at desk using Chinese typewriter. CUs complicated typescript on roller and in box. GS FitzGerald taking books from library shelves with CU to line drawings illustrating 17th century Chinese technology. GS to proton sychrotron hanging from crane hook in the workshop of the Research School of Physical Sciences. WS School Director Sir Mark Oliphant standing in front of view from his office then MS addressing camera from his desk outlining research work being carried out into the atomic structure of the universe.

Australian National University's School of Physical Sciences Director Sir Mark Oliphant standing with a model of a particle accelerator (atomic gun) explaining it's workings to camera. WS tilt down full size proton sychrotron being built with VS technicians and others inspecting workings. High angle travelling shots over machinery and workers. CUs construction and production. MS welder with mask. Various tilts and CUs of nuclear accelerator. MS technician in recording unit with VS devices and CU blinking lights. GS women sitting at microscopes at desks. MS technician and ECUs photographic plate under microscope. WS Mount Stromlo Observatory with mountains in background.

Australian National University's Department of Astronomy at Mount Stromlo Observatory. High angle shot over Professor Bart J Bok walking under giant telescope. CU Bok addressing camera about the research undertaken at Mount Stromlo. Tilt to telescope and dome. WS dome against evening sky. MS technician at controls and WS dome opening to reveal telescope. VS Arthur Hogg on balcony standing under telescope focusing eyepiece. WS magellan then tilt down night sky. CU photographic atomic slide, CU native mask, VS equipment, scientists, geographers and mappers. WS University grounds and various buildings. High WS over University.