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My Father, My Country

A daughter retraces her father's epic journey into the highlands of Papua New Guinea.
Year : 1989 | Total Duration : 56 minutes | Producer : Peter Butt
Director : Peter Butt |
Low aerial track across tops of green trees of New Guinea highlands forest towards towering green mountains and river. POV boat along steep sided river. Aerial tracks over small group of native huts with smoke rising from chimneys on green mountainside.
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Access No. 72305 | 56 secs | 1980s | Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage of traditional New Guinean natives dancing in ornate traditional costume.
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Access No. 72308 | 18 secs | 1930s | Papua New Guinea | © National Film and Sound Archive | B&W |
FS still photograph of three Australian patrol officers sent to the highlands of New Guinea by the Australian Government in 1938. Left to right is John Black, Jim Taylor, and Callaghan Baird (Pat) Walsh with the patrol in line behind behind them. Photograph taken on 9 March, 1938, the day the patrol left Mt Hagen.
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Access No. 72309 | 10 secs | 1930s | Papua New Guinea | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Archival footage of Patrol officers, Jim Taylor, John Black and Pat Walsh walking through line of indigenous New Guinea police officers and carriers laden with supplies for journey. Patrol officers shaking hands before setting out on The Hagen - Sepik patrol, 9 March, 1938. LS of patrol walking in line. VS of native tribes looking at camera
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Access No. 72310 | 33 secs | 1930s | Papua New Guinea | © Jeanette Leahy | B&W |
Group of native New Guineans walking with backpacks up hillside past camera. VS Meg Taylor joining expedition through jungle in the footsteps of her father's 1938 Hagen - Sepik Patrol. GS crossing bamboo bridge and travelling across river in motorised longboat. CUs Taylor and talking to camera.
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Access No. 72317 | 52 secs | 1980s | Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
WS misty mountain ranges in soft shades of blue. People walking across screen in silhouette. Opening titles.
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Access No. 72327 | 12 secs | 1980s | Kundiawa, Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
Zoom out from B&W still photograph of Meg Taylor as a baby being held by her New Guinean mother, Yerima and her Australian father, Jim Taylor. Taken in their coffee plantation outside Goroka about 1952. Zoom in to B&W still portrait of Jim Taylor. CU pan of B&W still of Jim Taylor with New Guinean native servant, Banonau. taken on the Hagen - Sepik patrol of 1938. CUs B&W still of Jim Taylor and John Black with New Guinean natives in front of propellor plane. CU still of John Black.
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Access No. 72328 | 48 secs | 1930s | Papua New Guinea | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Archival footage of New Guinean carriers in preparation and setting off at beginning of journey, The Hagen - Sepik patrol, 9 March, 1938.
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Access No. 72329 | 35 secs | 1930s | Papua New Guinea | © National Film and Sound Archive | B&W |
Three New Guinean women sitting on street chatting opposite supermarket (Haris Supamaket). GS groups of New Guineans sitting and standing around in streets outside shops.
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Access No. 72340 | 18 secs | 1980s | Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
White utility truck driven and riden by New Guinean natives past camera down muddy New Guinea road. Natives gathered on side of road to watch. CU Meg Taylor in profile driving while speaking to camera. WS 4 wheel drive cars up steep winding dirt road in jungle.
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Access No. 72343 | 39 secs | 1980s | Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
CU map of Papua New Guinea with graphics marking Hagen Sepik patrol expedition route
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Access No. 72345 | 14 secs | 1980s | Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
VS expedition party working on impassable dirt road and laying stones on dirt. MS Meg Taylor speaking to camera with party working in background. VS 4WD getting stuck in mud before being abandoned.
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Access No. 72347 | 1 min 15 secs | 1980s | Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
High angle shot and VS of group of highland New Guinea natives in semi-western dress gathered for work as carriers. CUs decorated faces. Young New Guinean woman in Mickey Mouse T-shirt. VS carriers winding through grass hills. WS line of carriers through long pale grasses with green stepped fields in background.
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Access No. 72350 | 1 min 18 secs | 1980s | Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage of 1938 expedition winding through grass hills. VS local guides and carriers through steep forest paths.
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Access No. 72355 | 21 secs | 1930s | Papua New Guinea | © National Film and Sound Archive | B&W |
Archival footage of native New Guinean tribe seated in front of tent and VS looking to camera and smoking long bamboo pipes.
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Access No. 72356 | 15 secs | 1980s | Papua New Guinea | © National Film and Sound Archive | B&W |
Archival footage of line of New Guinea native bearers walking past camera. VS Jim Taylor and fellow expeditioner with old camera
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Access No. 72368 | 20 secs | 1930s | Papua New Guinea | © National Film and Sound Archive | B&W |
1937 Archival footage of tribal fight with warriors throwing spears and using long patterned shields.
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Access No. 72371 | 26 secs | 1930s | Papua New Guinea | © Richard Hogg | B&W |
Archival footage of New Guinea highland natives gathered behind wire to watch Jim Taylor use gun to kill small pig or boar. CUs natives looking seriously to camera.
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Access No. 72373 | 31 secs | 1930s | Papua New Guinea | © Jeanette Leahy | B&W |
Group of New Guinea natives gathered around small plastic tents. CUs indigenous faces. White expeditioner showing photographs to older native man.
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Access No. 72379 | 24 secs | 1980s | Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
FS still photograph of three Australian patrol officers sent to the highlands of New Guinea by the Australian Government in 1938. Left to right is John Black, Jim Taylor, and Callaghan Baird (Pat) Walsh with the patrol in line behind behind them. Photograph taken on 9 March, 1938, the day the patrol left Mt Hagen
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Access No. 72381 | 6 secs | 1930s | Papua New Guinea | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
CU older male New Guinea native talking of his encounter with white men translated by voice-over. Pan across large group of local highland natives behind patrol dome tents. CUs indigenous faces. CU young woman with white & red face paint and colourful shawl on head, CU older bearded man in hat, and young woman holding baby. WS group of natives assembled on grass with mountains in background.
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Access No. 72382 | 54 secs | 1980s | Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
CU Meg Taylor talking to camera.
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Access No. 72388 | 10 secs | 1980s | Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
CU gold panning in New Guinea stream. Looking down to men shovelling grey muddy earth with hands. High WS pan across muddy gold fields with young New Guinean males working in small groups.
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Access No. 72389 | 34 secs | 1980s | Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
Meg Taylor and group walking along track through tall grasses in New Guinea.
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Access No. 72393 | 28 secs | 1980s | Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
WS green highland mountain scenic half in shadow with misty sky. Pan across sunlit strip on mountains to pale misty clouds descending.
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Access No. 72394 | 16 secs | 1980s | Awipu, Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
MS two New Guinean natives in traditional dress and face paint to camera. Translation in voice-over. Archival B&W ground to air shot of plane flying overhead. CU faces of natives and archival footage of wary but curious native faces.
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Access No. 72396 | 1 min 8 secs | 1980s | Papua New Guinea | © NFSA & National Film and Sound Archive | Colour |
WS archival colour footage of carriers digging landing strip. Ground to air shot of plane flying high overhead against blue sky. New Guinea natives running away from camera across field. Archival colour footage of first air drop for exploration ever attempted with VS supplies being dropped from plane by parachute. GS natives seated on ground watching.
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Access No. 72397 | 1 min 11 secs | 1930s | Papua New Guinea | © National Film and Sound Archive | Colour |
Shot to plane in flight dropping parcels which are collected from ground by locals. CU old woman with stick. VS white woman with vegetables distributing them to natives who are dressed in western clothes with traditional painted faces and headwear.
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Access No. 72418 | 38 secs | 1980s | Kopiago, Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage of seated groups of natives. Various contemporary shots of native women dealing with food gathering, preparation and cultivating hillsides for food. Tilt up bamboo pan pipes to CU of elderly New Guinea man as he plays pipes.
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Access No. 72419 | 48 secs | 1930s | Papua New Guinea | © National Film and Sound Archive & NFSA | B&W |
WS lake with misty mountains in distance. Pan to hills reflected in lake. CU elderly native man blowing pan pipes. GS Meg Taylor looking at view from hilltop back to camera. WS rainbow over lake with mountains in background and tent in foreground.
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Access No. 72420 | 30 secs | 1980s | Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
VS of Meg Taylor and members of her party in mist shrouded campsite. VS breakfast preparation. VS meeting between group of native carriers and expedition members. VS native highlander children darting out of way as helicopter flies past low to ground.
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Access No. 72431 | 49 secs | 1980s | Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
Aerial track POV helicopter past steep green slopes of mountains. Interior shots of Meg Taylor in helicopter with pilot over rugged mountain ranges. Aerials over rugged terrain of Strickland gorge and river snaking around ranges.
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Access No. 72435 | 47 secs | 1980s | Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
VS crossing Strickland Gorge by foot. CUs boots and VS expedition party through rugged terrain. Pan to exact spot of original crossing and VS swirling river and people sitting on rocks. Man's hand holding B&W photographs of same spot.
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Access No. 72438 | 58 secs | 1980s | Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage of Strickland Gorge river crossing with rope and pulley system used to build bridge. VS New Guinea natives building suspension bridge and explorers looking through binoculars.
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Access No. 72440 | 28 secs | 1930s | Papua New Guinea | © National Film and Sound Archive | B&W |
Aerial over steep limestone mountain with pan over green slopes to river at base. Track along Strickland River POV boat through steep green gorge walls.
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Access No. 72445 | 41 secs | 1980s | Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
Meg Taylor and her team walking along cleared jungle track accompanied by local children. Line of New Guinea carriers and party walking through dense jungle track toward camera. CUs bare feet then boots over mossy rocks. VS ascent through jungle track. CU tilt down trunk and aerial roots of moss covered tree.
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Access No. 72447 | 1 min 41 secs | 1980s | Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
WS green jungle vegetation. CU flower spike with purple flowers, CU orange plants, CU orange and cream flowers opening along stalk
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Access No. 72454 | 13 secs | 1980s | Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
VS Meg Taylor and her team walking single file through New Guinea jungle along muddy track and steep muddy slopes. Tilt to white clouded sky.
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Access No. 72459 | 46 secs | 1980s | Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
Aerial through mountains and opening onto green forests below POV helicopter.
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Access No. 72460 | 19 secs | 1980s | Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
Meg Taylor walking away from camera toward mission station at Tekin. MS pan of line of native children waiting for medical service. VS Taylor being shown wounds on old man's legs in ward by New Guinean community nurse. VS child being weighed in mesh bag (bilum) on hanging scales.
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Access No. 72461 | 1 min 20 secs | 1980s | Tekin, Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
Rear track of Meg Taylor walking towards group of gathered New Guinea natives and embraces elderly men, Tipika and Sako, who were carriers on Jim Taylor's 1938 expedition. VS elderly ex-carriers talking. VS New Guinean carriers laden with packs.
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Access No. 72468 | 1 min 14 secs | 1980s | Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival colour footage of New Guinean carriers with VS body decoration and women weeping. GS white man amongst natives.
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Access No. 72473 | 33 secs | 1930s | Papua New Guinea | © National Film and Sound Archive | Colour |
Patrol setting out from house. VS carriers and party crossing log bridge with CUs on feet. GS line of expedition through overgrown track into forest. VS through dark jungle and crossing streams. WS pan of camp being set up. VS New Guinean man cooking meat over camp fire with others gathered around singing. CU Meg Taylor reading.
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Access No. 72474 | 3 mins 11 secs | 1930s | Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
High shot over misty clouds swirling over forest floor. ECU water drops dripping from end of leaves. GS raindrops on leaves. CU bare feet of New Guinean carriers walking over muddy mossy ground. Tilt up to carriers walking through forest towards camera.
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Access No. 72484 | 58 secs | 1980s | Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
VS Meg Taylor and team trekking through bush track in rain in wet weather gear. View down to mist over trees in valley below. Pan of group resting high on mountain and view out over vast forest below.
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Access No. 72492 | 36 secs | 1980s | Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
Pan from fast flowing headwaters of Sepik River to Meg Taylor and team walking through swirling water on foot. CU Meg Taylor talking to camera. VS team through jungle. WS tents spread through campsite in open clearing at Faramin.
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Access No. 72494 | 1 min 48 secs | 1980s | Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
Meg Taylor in New Guinea village speaking to villagers. VS Taylor looking at small pig tethered by foot. MS carriers building ground oven (mumu) with leaves. Cut to archival footage of carriers doing same. Carriers scraping skin from pig laying on to of mumu. Banana leaves being brought in and laid on mumu.
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Access No. 72498 | 1 min 17 secs | 1980s | Papua New Guinea | © NFSA and National Screen and Sound Archive | Colour |
Bearded photographer with Meg Taylor and other onlookers lining up photograph and pan to large group of posed New Guinean carriers.
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Access No. 72506 | 24 secs | 1980s | Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
WS over scenic bend in swirling river with low cloud. VS expedition over suspension bridge. VS village of Telefomin showing arrival of Meg Taylor and team, WS township, villagers, and MS elderly local holding baby.
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Access No. 72507 | 40 secs | 1980s | Telefomin, Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
Various archival photographs of New Guinean Telefomin natives.
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Access No. 72513 | 27 secs | 1930s | Telefomin, Papua New Guinea | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Surviving Telefomin bearer from the original patrol talking to camera. VS around town showing housing, surrounding landscape, tractor pulling people riding in cart. VS woman leading group of children in song. CU Meg Taylor speaking to camera.
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Access No. 72514 | 1 min 35 secs | 1980s | Telefomin, Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage of tribal dancing
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Access No. 72519 | 30 secs | 1930s | Papua New Guinea | © National Film and Sound Archive | B&W |
CU ÒTelefomin High SchoolÓ sign. MS Meg Taylor addressing high school students and participating in demonstration of bush skills performed by members of her New Guinean team.
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Access No. 72520 | 54 secs | 1980s | Telefomin, Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
Tilt up from fast flowing water of May River to timber huts perched up in jungle in Mianmin. Pans of thatched timber huts of village, much less sophisticated than Telefomin. CU village activities and CU toddler eating bread. MS Meg Taylor sitting on hut verandah with locals. CUs of elderly man animatedly recounting dramatic war like meeting with white men to Taylor
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Access No. 72522 | 2 mins 26 secs | 1980s | Mianmin, Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
MS mother passing Mianmin baby to Meg Taylor. GS local men house building with timbers and twine. CU map of patrol with graphic marking trail of next stage.
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Access No. 72523 | 46 secs | 1980s | Mianmin, Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
CU white water and WS canoe carrying patrol down Sepik river. CUs of patrol and Meg Taylor. MS white heron on tree top. Track of longboats gliding down river. CU photographer Barry Taverner resting. Zoom from shore to speeding boat down blue river seen through bare tree branches.
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Access No. 72524 | 50 secs | 1980s | Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
VS longboats travelling down Sepik River. Pair of New Guinean sago cutters on river bank. VS man chopping out sago palm trunk and then washing sago fibre in trough near river. CU drumming on hollow logs. Village huts seen POV travelling down river.
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Access No. 72525 | 1 min 38 secs | 1980s | Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
GS group of woman villagers with children and GS villagers gathered around canoe. CU wooden carvings. MS men blowing bamboo flutes. MS Sepik women. VS native boys in small dugout canoe and children playing in water. VS everyday life. CU carvings with decorated faces.
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Access No. 72526 | 1 min 37 secs | 1980s | Sepik River, Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
WS Sepik River at sunset with water reflecting white and sun sinking behind forest. VS patrol travelling in longboats down river under darkening sky.
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Access No. 72527 | 38 secs | 1980s | Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
High shot of patrol carriers winding up track on hill. CU map of next stage of journey. VS journey on foot. MS four patrol members boarding plane to be transferred out at Maramuni. WS plane taking off towards mountains. VS packing supplies watched by locals. CU Meg Taylor talking to camera.
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Access No. 72528 | 2 mins 5 secs | 1980s | Maramuni, Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
VS Meg Taylor showing photograph of Jim Taylor to older villagers. Pan group of local women and children looking on. Gs group of villagers. CU Meg Taylor talking to camera.
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Access No. 72586 | 1 min 7 secs | 1980s | Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
CU video game ÒLabrynthÓ playing on television. Zoom out to CUs of rapt faces of local children and adults watching. MS local women chanting. High shot of patrol climbing steep track.
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Access No. 72587 | 1 min 22 secs | 1980s | Papua New Guinea | © Les Smith | Colour |
Archival footage of carriers past tall grasses shaking villager's hand as they pass.
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Access No. 72588 | 18 secs | 1930s | Papua New Guinea | © National Film and Sound Archive | B&W |
GS Meg Taylor walking in clearing followed by group of chanting New Guineans. Group welcomed by more locals.
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Access No. 72589 | 1 min 1 sec | 1980s | Papua New Guinea | © NFSA | Colour |
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