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City Family, A
Made for an overseas audience, this short film shows a "typical" Australian family, their home, family life, work and recreation.
Year :
1972 |
Total Duration :
15 Minutes |
Producer :
Donald Crombie
Director :
Chris McGill |
High shot of house at night and tilt down. WS man in pyjamas and dressing gown turning off television and leaving loungeroom. CU pan down hydrangeas in vase to china figurines and CUs of photographs of young girls and young boy in double photo frame. Tilts and pans of boy's room past objects such as pennants on the wall, a globe and football team photograph. Tilt down to young boy asleep in bed GS young girl asleep in bed with clown doll tucked in with her.
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Access No. 138543 | 1 min 22 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Pan from doll's tea party on the floor to small child asleep in bed with teddy bear tucked in next to her. Tilt down to wedding photograph of couple. WS North Sydney skyline with high-rise office buildings behind residential flats and houses and freeway in foreground. Track of Qantas jet plane dropping wheels as it comes in for landing and GS as it touches down on tarmac.
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Access No. 138544 | 1 min 22 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
WS inside airport terminal with children playing on floor and pilots walking through crowds. Qantas worker Ross Wheeler boarding Qantas aircraft and handing briefcase to steward. VS of Wheeler accompanying freight container onto plane from hoist and low angle shot of aircraft door being shut and secured. GS of underbelly of plane and turbine engines on tarmac with zoom out of nose of jumbo jet.
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Access No. 138545 | 1 min 16 secs | 1970s | Sydney, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
WS of schoolchildren running past camera along airport observation deck in rain with Qantas V-Jet and other planes in background. GS child running on tarmac in rain holding umbrella towards luggage trolley. CU rain falling on tarmac. GS Qantas officer getting out of red Qantas car in rain and running to boarding stairs carrying clipboard. GS men pushing luggage trolley to plane.
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Access No. 138546 | 39 secs | 1970s | Sydney, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
VS interior of airport control room with banks of television monitors showing various airport activities and GS men at desks looking at reports and speaking on microphone. VS Margaret Wheeler in her kitchen preparing a meal for her family. CUs of her cutting up vegetables and cooking on electric stove with aluminium pots. CU cooking meat in Sunbeam electric frypan.
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Access No. 138547 | 1 min 29 secs | 1970s | Sydney, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
VS School teacher leading class of young children down slopes of Long Reef sand dunes towards water. WS of children running down eroded cliff and VS of children sketching on individual chalkboards. LS to empty cargo ship out to sea. Slow MS pan along row of children in classroom arranging cuisinaire rods on their desks. VS small girls sitting in a circle on the floor in ballet outfits pointing and flexing their toes in ballet shoes. Zoom in to small girl with ringlet pigtails.
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Access No. 138548 | 1 min 10 secs | 1970s | Sydney, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
WS of street with heat haze rising and boys on billycarts emerging over rise in road. GS dog biting at one boy's sleeve as he rides on billycart down hill. High angle shot and zoom down to Margaret Wheeler's mother arriving at house and being greeted by Margaret. VS of young girls getting out of bath and towelling themselves dry. MS of children at table in pyjamas eating their dinner.
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Access No. 138549 | 1 min 34 secs | 1970s | Sydney, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
WS of adults sitting down to meal at dinner table with father helping grandmother into chair and pouring wine. Zoom in to grandmother drinking wine. MS children kissing grandmother goodnight and VS children kissing their father and GS of the mother seeing children off to their rooms. GS mother tucking smallest child into bed, kissing her and turning off the light.
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Access No. 138550 | 1 min 42 secs | 1970s | Sydney, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
WS of family leaving their house in casual clothes carrying picnic hampers. Family gets into car with only the father wearing a seatbelt. MS father carrying small daughter on his shoulders with VS of the family walking through bush. WS of them picnicking on a rock overlooking the ocean and coastline. VS of the family kite flying in a field. WS of family standing outside their house waving to camera.
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Access No. 138551 | 2 mins 56 secs | 1970s | Sydney, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
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