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Sugar Slaves.

The secret history of Australia's slave trade.
Year : 1994 | Total Duration : 56 Minutes | Producer : Penny Robins (Producer), Trevor Graham (Co-Producer)
Director : Trevor Graham |
Good shots of sugar cane industry. Sugar cane train crossing a road, clear blue sky. Sugar cane harvester pouring cane into truck. WS sugar cane mill with steam and black smoke. Tractor towing large baskets of cut sugar cane across lush green cane field. CU on cane harvester cutting through cane. POV of driver of tractor looking down on cane has harvester ploughs through. Harvester cutting top off cane field, and close shot of cane train passing camera. LS of train through cane field. Pull back to show surrounding mountains, good shots.
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Access No. 64162 | 1 min 1 sec | 1990s | Ayr, Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B/W footage of man hand cutting sugar cane with hatchet or machete.
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Access No. 64172 | 4 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | B&W |
POV of a walker through a rainforest. CU of tree branches and leaves. CU on man's feet draped with grass doing traditional islander dancing
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Access No. 64173 | 5 secs | 1990s | Pentecost Island, Vanuatu | © NFSA | Colour |
B/W low angle shot of man walking past camera carrying load of cut sugar cane. Low angle shot of men cutting cane with machetes. Re-enactment.
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Access No. 64175 | 6 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | B&W |
B/W archival footage of islanders in boats or canoes with large curved bows
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Access No. 64179 | 5 secs | 1890s | © National Film and Sound Archive | B&W |
CU of flames from fire in orange colours
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Access No. 64180 | 2 secs | 1990s | Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B/W archival of islanders dancing to camera.
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Access No. 64181 | 1 sec | 1890s | © Australian Religious Film Society | B&W |
Indigenous children of Pentecost Island dance to camera and WS of women dancing in traditional clothes
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Access No. 64182 | 2 secs | 1990s | Pentecost Island, Vanuatu | © NFSA | Colour |
B/W footage pan across burning sugar cane field
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Access No. 64184 | 2 secs | 1990s | Qld, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Flames of burning cane field superimposed with islander faces in smoke. Title
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Access No. 64185 | 17 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Brisbane International airport. People wait with luggage, woman in red walks right to camera. VS of passengers queuing for check in including Joe and Monica Leo. CU of an Australian passport being stamped at Immigration desk. CU of manon plane looking out of window. MS of pilot in profile at controls of plane. CU of radar screen showing location on flight to Vanuatu. Aerial Vanuatu as plane descends. POV of car along wet dirt road and passing tropical landscape. Small plane lands and passengers greeted by islander women with leis
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Access No. 64187 | 1 min 24 secs | 1990s | Brisbane, Qld, Australia and Pentecost Island, Vanuatu | © NFSA | Colour |
Good shot POV through lush green jungle rainforest along narrow dirt path. Two girls wearing flower leis around neck in back of truck as it drives through the rainforest Pan to Joe Leo holding child.
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Access No. 64206 | 5 secs | 1990s | Lagatoa, Vanuatu | © NFSA | Colour |
Three huts in midst of jungle rainforest
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Access No. 64208 | 5 secs | 1990s | Lagatoa, Vanuatu | © NFSA | Colour |
Woman carrying child and other children walking towards camera, traditional huts on Vanuatu in b/g. Woman sweeping ground and small naked child playing in lush tropical landscape. Line of people trek through rainforest to a welcome in open clearing of islander men performing traditional dance of welcome. VS of islander children and men. CU on smiling woman, Monica Leo
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Access No. 64209 | 1 min 24 secs | 1990s | Lagatoa, Vanuatu | © NFSA | Colour |
Pan across mist shrouded palm trees and rainforest. WS of hibiscus flowers on bush. Church building, Joe and Lance Leo, Mal Malamoo and Col Tomarra walk to camera on sand of beach and stand on foreshore. Joe Leo talks to camera about being taken from island to Australia
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Access No. 64223 | 1 min 13 secs | 1990s | Lagatoa, Vanuatu | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W footage of palm trees swaying in wind, hut by beach with sea bleached timber, driftwood in foreground. Pan right to sea. and HA shot of waves washing over sand and rocks.
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Access No. 64230 | 28 secs | 1990s | Vanuatu | © NFSA | B&W |
B&W archival footage of island seen through rigging of boat. Islanders paddle canoe to ship. Captain welcomes islanders aboard. Captain entices Islanders aboard ship. Islanders start to run away from ship, crew starts chasing them. Crew starts shooting at them. Ship sails away. On board ship looking to prow.
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Access No. 64234 | 1 min 1 sec | 1900s | Vanuatu | © National Film and Sound Archive & Australian Religious Film Society | B&W |
Islander women in traditional dress performing traditional dances. Joe Leo and other men watching dancers. Grace Molisa talks to camera about Australians stealing of Vanuatu islander boats for the Pacific slave trade or blackbirding.
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Access No. 64243 | 1 min 5 secs | 1990s | Vanuatu | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W time-lapse footage of storm clouds swirling.
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Access No. 64251 | 8 secs | 1990s | © ABC Footage Sales | B&W |
B&W archival footage of ship in rough sea, CU of rigging
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Access No. 64252 | 18 secs | 1900s | © Australian Religious Society | B&W |
Four B&W still photographs - first one of single Kanaka man standing, second still photograph of Kanaka men standing in front of row of huts, third B&W photograph of two islander kanaka men in traditional dress standing. B&W still of large group of islander men in front to hut
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Access No. 64255 | 36 secs | 1900s | Vanuatu | © State Library of NSW - Mitchell Library | B&W |
Interview with Ross Fitzgerald talks about the use of Pacific Island slave labour in the establishment of sugar industry in colonial Queensland
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Access No. 64259 | 12 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | B&W |
Good shot of sugar cane harvester cutting cane. Brilliant blue sky with fluffy white clouds. Sugar cane train. Good WS of rural landscape with sugar cane train snaking through valley. Fast travelling shot of suburban Queensland homes
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Access No. 64260 | 22 secs | 1990s | Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Marlene Henaway driving small school bus Bus pulls up at home and small children run from house and jump into bus. POV car crossing steel bridge in country town. School bus / van along road past sugar cane fields. Marlene and children in pre school / kindergarten.
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Access No. 64264 | 1 min 26 secs | 1990s | Qld, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
B&W sunlight through cane stalks, group of islander men walking alongside cane fields and men cutting cane with machetes and carrying on their shoulders.
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Access No. 64274 | 55 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | B&W |
Pan up B&W still of Islanders in native dress and pan across second still of islander labourers
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Access No. 64285 | 29 secs | 1900s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Interview Clive Moore in library about the South Pacific islander labour force in sugar cane industry in Queensland.
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Access No. 64287 | 16 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W footage of cane cutters BG, hand hone blade in foreground being sharpened, VS of cutting cane and South Pacific islander labourers. Some shots slow motion.
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Access No. 64288 | 17 secs | 1990s | Qld, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
VS of sugar cane fields, car along dirt road in Queensland rural landscape. Noah Sabbo driving car and talking about early days of cane harvesting. VS of men cutting down cane.
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Access No. 64292 | 1 min 9 secs | 1990s | Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Overseer on horseback, pan left to workers in cane field. (Photograph). South Pacific Islander cane cutters stand with European men, pan right. Photograph.
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Access No. 64302 | 22 secs | 1990s | Qld, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Phyllis Corowa at home inspecting flowers in her garden.
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Access No. 64304 | 23 secs | 1990s | Tweed Heads, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W archival footage set in South Pacific depicting the taking of slaves from islands in Pacific. Sailor offers goods to natives.
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Access No. 64307 | 22 secs | 1900s | © Australian Religious Society | B&W |
B&W footage of water washing over rocks. Interview Phyllis Corowa, talking about her Grandmothers experiences as slave labour in sugar cane fields. B&W photograph still of women amongst the cane fields with hand held hoes
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Access No. 64313 | 40 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | B&W |
Two B&W still photographs of South Pacific islander women on boat, deportation scene
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Access No. 64317 | 24 secs | 1900s | © National Library of Australia | B&W |
B&W still of large group of islander women in front of cane field. B&W photograph of islander women and small children with horse. B&W still of islander woman and children in garden. South Pacific islander men in front of hut. B&W still of four women in cane fields. Pan across B&W still of men & women planting. man walks left with stick, pan left to women planting. Photograph.
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Access No. 64324 | 44 secs | 1900s | Qld, Australia | © John Oxley Library | B&W |
B&W footage of legs towards camera and tilt up to show islander men walking in cane fields
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Access No. 64325 | 16 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | B&W |
Pan across B&W still of hatted sugar cane workers in row. B&W still of cane workers by irrigation canal. Tilt up single male labourer
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Access No. 64326 | 24 secs | 1900s | © John Oxley Library | B&W |
Knife cuts sugar cane stalk.
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Access No. 64329 | 1 sec | 1990s | © NFSA | B&W |
Horse drawn omnibus past camera
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Access No. 64330 | 4 secs | 1920s | © NFSA | B&W |
Horse and buggy to camera, women cross street in BG.
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Access No. 64331 | 3 secs | 1900s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
B&W footage of sugar cane worker slices stem of cane. Re-enactment.
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Access No. 64332 | 1 sec | 1990s | © NFSA | B&W |
B&W archival footage of omnibus past camera and other archival street scenes, all interspersed with B&W cane cutting footage.
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Access No. 64333 | 27 secs | 1920s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Interview with Ross Fitzgerald. about the politics at state level of the slave labour used in sugar industry
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Access No. 64344 | 20 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Posterised shot, back into normal shot, WS low angle, guards on horseback past camera left to right. B&W LS of government building and B&W still of stained glass window of Queen Victoria
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Access No. 64345 | 15 secs | 1900s | Australia | © National Film and Sound Archive | B&W |
Pan along B&W still of group of pastoralists under verandah, pan right . Sugar cane cutters and cart. B&W photograph of cane cutters working.
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Access No. 64348 | 25 secs | 1900s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Posterising resolved into MS London Parliament House, Big Ben clock tower. Street with people through and man pulling cart.
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Access No. 64351 | 24 secs | 1900s | London, UK | © BBC Mini Library & National Library of Australia | B&W |
B&W footage of wave washing over rock and waves on sand.
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Access No. 64355 | 9 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | B&W |
B&W archival footage - VS of native huts on stilts over water, islanders canoeing on water and European traders showing their wares to islanders
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Access No. 64357 | 42 secs | 1900s | © National Film and Sound Archive | B&W |
Interview with Clive Moore.
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Access No. 64362 | 7 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W still of Islander men in western style suits, pan right across row of men.
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Access No. 64363 | 9 secs | 1900s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Islander men in western suits with clocks. Photograph.
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Access No. 64364 | 9 secs | 1920s | © James Cook University of North Queensland | B&W |
Waves washing over sand and small piece of coral. Small islander boy walking along track in rainforest. Two girls with umbrellas. CU on orchid flowers. WS of island hut. VS of islander men and women weaving grass, carving. Interview with Vanuatu Chief in white T-shirt, pull out to show Monica Leo with chief. Islander women walk down dirt track and digging in earth. Men and children through rainforest. Tilt up rainforest trees. Monica Leo looking through camera lens. Grace Molisa in Chief's Nakamal.
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Access No. 64365 | 4 mins 43 secs | 1990s | Pentecost Island, Vanuatu | © NFSA | Colour |
Good shot of sugar cane harvester cutting through cane. Sugar cane train past Queenslander house. Man walks through rural landscape. Noah Sabbo talks to camera. Good shot of three butterflies on a twig. and white birds wading through swampy water.
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Access No. 64405 | 1 min 2 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W still of group of Kanakas by thatched building. Group in front of three huts
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Access No. 64412 | 15 secs | 1900s | Vanuatu | © Rockhampton & District Historical Society | B&W |
Noah Sabbo by old creek in sugar cane field talking about the Kanakas.
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Access No. 64414 | 15 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W still of Kanaka man and boy, pan right to man with accordion or squeezebox. B&W still of single man holding a book.(Photograph)
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Access No. 64416 | 19 secs | 1900s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Men at football training. Interview with Des Eggmolesse. Des coaching on the football field.
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Access No. 64418 | 32 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Photograph Des Eggmolesse's grandfather, zoom in.
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Access No. 64425 | 5 secs | 1900s | © Des Eggmolesse | B&W |
Des Eggmolesse's interview.
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Access No. 64426 | 22 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W archival footage, ocean through trees, islanders sailing ship and children swimming in sea
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Access No. 64427 | 29 secs | 1900s | © National Film and Sound Archive | B&W |
Interview Des Eggmolesse interspersed with B&W stills of his grandparents, talks of his grandparents marrying in spite of being from different islands, frowned upon in Vanuatu culture
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Access No. 64434 | 23 secs | 1990s | © NFSA & Des Eggmolesse | Colour |
Bundaberg town. WS building with clock tower, possibly Town Hall. Good shots of main street. Good WS of sugar cane mill and distillery with smoke from chimneys. Front end loader dumping loads of sugar inside mill. LA shot of white angel statue , headstone in Bundaburg Cemetery. WS of car driving through cemetery. Des Eggmolesse and other islander men working at restoring an area called the Kanakas Cemetery where 400 South Sea Islanders are buried without graves or headstones
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Access No. 64435 | 2 mins 53 secs | 1990s | Bundaberg, Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W low angle reed grass and sugar cane against sky with white clouds. WS of sugar cane field. Cane cutters at work. B&W wedding photograph of bride and family
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Access No. 64456 | 25 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | B&W |
B&W still pan right across faces of South Pacific Islander men. B&W photograph of group of men and women sitting on rocks. B&W photograph of woman with hat standing by chair
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Access No. 64464 | 19 secs | 1900s | © James Cook Univeristy of North Queensland | B&W |
B&W footage low angle man cuts sugar cane stalk, cane cutters at work.
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Access No. 64467 | 10 secs | 1990s | Qld, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Lighting fire in sugar cane field, large sugar cane fire
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Access No. 64471 | 14 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival B&W footage - angry workers at a labour meeting at a bush camp.
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Access No. 64476 | 20 secs | 1920s | © Young Historical Society | B&W |
B&W archival footage - Parade down main street with banners and floats - Eight Hour Procession in Brisbane.
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Access No. 64482 | 18 secs | 1920s | Brisbane, Qld, Australia | © National Film and Sound Archive | B&W |
B&W archival footage - men with bales of hay.
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Access No. 64485 | 3 secs | 1920s | © National Film and Sound Archive | B&W |
B&W Archival footage of man shearing sheep and archival footage of men baling hay, horse and cart in F/G, farming
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Access No. 64486 | 8 secs | Unknown | © National Film and Sound Archive | B&W |
B&W Archival footage - workers leaving shed with large wagons wheels resting against wall. Men doff their hats as they pass camera
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Access No. 64488 | 8 secs | 1910s | © National Film and Sound Archive | B&W |
Pan down illustration from front page of ÒThe BoomerangÓ July 13 1889
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Access No. 64489 | 6 secs | 1880s | © State Library of Victoria | B&W |
B&W illustration of Pacific Islander workers portrayed as savages.
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Access No. 64490 | 5 secs | 1910s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Interview Ross Fitzgerald.
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Access No. 64491 | 8 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W illustration of white woman chained to rock, zoom in.
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Access No. 64492 | 9 secs | 1910s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
B&W lathe spinning, Edison gramaphone playing, film pulled into gate of camera.
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Access No. 64493 | 18 secs | 1920s | © NFSA | B&W |
Crowd watches horse race, Melbourne Cup 1896
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Access No. 64498 | 4 secs | 1890s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © National Film and Sound Archive | B&W |
B&W archival footage of flag waving, pan down to MS soldiers platoon in BG.
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Access No. 64499 | 3 secs | 1910s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
B&W archival footage of people diving from spring board on verandah, St Kilda Continental Bathing
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Access No. 64500 | 3 secs | 1900s | St Kilda, Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Horses and carriage with dignitaries (probably Duke and Duchess of York) on occasion of Federation (1901), crowd watches in BG. HA crowd wave hats
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Access No. 64501 | 16 secs | 1900s | Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
B&W archival footage of people sitting on a merry-go-round.
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Access No. 64503 | 2 secs | 1900s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
B&W archival footage military band plays.
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Access No. 64504 | 2 secs | 1900s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Archival footage - Children space themselves out in playground, tip sideways in display of physical education (Empire Day celebrations)
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Access No. 64505 | 5 secs | 1920s | © National Film and Sound Archive | B&W |
Archival footage - Lifesavers march up beach at surf carnival.
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Access No. 64506 | 5 secs | 1920s | © NFSA | B&W |
B&W Archival footage - Group standing together, older woman in middle surrounded by younger girls with sashes over shoulders
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Access No. 64507 | 1 sec | 1900s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Federation 1901 - Duke and Duchess of York plus others walk to and past camera
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Access No. 64508 | 7 secs | 1900s | Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
B&W archival footage of cane workers load sugar cane and sugar cane workers loading cane with open forest in BG, cane cutter s at work.
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Access No. 64509 | 18 secs | 1920s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
B&W archival footage of people in top hats walk right to left past camera on the occasion of Federation (1901), Duke and Duchess of York, slow motion.
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Access No. 64512 | 18 secs | 1900s | Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
B&W VS Sugar cane cutters from the South Pacific Islands working, sun in BG.
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Access No. 64514 | 45 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | B&W |
B&W still of Pacific Islander in suit and holding a book / Bible?. Tilt to CU on his face
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Access No. 64522 | 14 secs | 1900s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Interview Clive Moore talks of the Pacific Islanders fight to remain in Queensland after deportation orders from the Government were issued and their formation of a political organisation.
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Access No. 64523 | 18 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Pan left across B&W still of Kanaka men to women and children. Group of small children in white dresses
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Access No. 64524 | 19 secs | 1900s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Main street with people and vehicles up and down. Brisbane.
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Access No. 64526 | 14 secs | 1910s | Brisbane, Qld, Australia | © Queensland Museum | B&W |
Zoom in on B&W photograph still of Pacific Islander mother and child in field.
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Access No. 64527 | 8 secs | 1900s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Pan up B&W photograph still - MS man with hands in lap to man standing near him. Photograph of small girl, zoom in on her face
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Access No. 64528 | 21 secs | 1900s | Vanuatu | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Interview Clive Moore about the Pacific Islander families split up with deportation
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Access No. 64530 | 4 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W still of rows of Pacific Islander men in white shirts and hats on ship, pan down. (Photograph).
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Access No. 64531 | 8 secs | 1900s | © National Library of Australia | B&W |
Zoom in small child in hat. (Photograph).
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Access No. 64532 | 10 secs | 1900s | © James Cook Univeristy of North Queensland | B&W |
Large group Pacific Islander men in shirts stand in rows. B&W Photograph.
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Access No. 64533 | 4 secs | 1900s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
B&W archival footage of steam boat leaving crowded wharf.
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Access No. 64534 | 7 secs | 1900s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
B&W footage of wave washing up over sand and rocks.
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Access No. 64536 | 6 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | B&W |
Pacific Islander girl looking down at basket she is weaving, pan left to Joe Leo. Group of islander women carrying bundles on sticks over their shoulders.
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Access No. 64538 | 29 secs | 1990s | Pentecost Island, Vanuatu | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W water washing over rocks.
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Access No. 64542 | 4 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | B&W |
Noah Sabbo sits by creek, zoom in. Des Eggmolesse working at restoring Kanaka Cemetery in Bundaberg
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Access No. 64543 | 24 secs | 1990s | Bundaberg, Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
People run into surf at Queensland beach in evening dusk light. Phyllis Corowa walks by surf.
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Access No. 64547 | 14 secs | 1990s | Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W CU of feet walking along sand in shallows of beach to camera - person wearing shoes and trousers. CU on man carrying old suitcase. LS of man in suit and white hat walking away from camera on beach.
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Access No. 64550 | 19 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | B&W |
Interview with Phyllis Corowa.
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Access No. 64553 | 9 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W archival of POV from train exiting a tunnel. Steam train along bridge
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Access No. 64554 | 14 secs | 1920s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Interview Phyllis Corowa.
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Access No. 64556 | 8 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Australian Sugar opening titles. Man at back of horse and plough. Men empty cane stems into dispenser. Horse and plough. Five cane farmers stand with large cane stems. Four cane cutters with loads of sugar cane on their shoulders. Man drinks water from can. Sugar cane cutting knives pulled from ground. Man cutting sugar cane to camera. Man carries cut sugar cane left. Sugar cane cutter. Low angle man cuts remaining sugar cane. Sugar train
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Access No. 64557 | 59 secs | 1930s | © NFSA | B&W |
B&W Archival - Cane falls from sugar cane train.
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Access No. 64572 | 4 secs | 1940s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Interview Phyllis Corowa. At night, men walk past sugar cane.
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Access No. 64574 | 43 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Pacific islander children and families in backyard of Bundaberg home, young boy. Adults singing and playing guitars
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Access No. 64578 | 17 secs | 1990s | Bundaberg, Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Kanaka family stand by hut. Zoom in to child. (B&W Photograph)
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Access No. 64582 | 13 secs | 1920s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Interview Marlene Henaway. Scenes at family barbeque, exterior house in Bundaberg. Des Eggmolesse watering plants in garden
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Access No. 64583 | 1 min 8 secs | 1990s | Bundaberg, Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Pull out of WS men and huts. B&W Photograph.
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Access No. 64592 | 9 secs | 1920s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
B&W footage Bamboo stem being cut by cane cutter
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Access No. 64593 | 7 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | B&W |
Des Eggmolesse interview.
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Access No. 64595 | 12 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W Newsreel headline: Every Minute is Precious - You Can't Delay - Enlist Now. WWII
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Access No. 64596 | 6 secs | 1990s | © Filmworld | B&W |
B&W newsreel footage of men enlisting in Europe - men signing up. WWII
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Access No. 64597 | 6 secs | 1940s | Europe | © Filmworld | B&W |
Soldiers in slouch hats marching along Sydney street. HA shot of recruits marching in street.
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Access No. 64598 | 9 secs | 1940s | Australia | © Filmworld | B&W |
Soldiers walking up gangplank to boat turn and wave to farewell crowd. MS of soldier waving to camera.
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Access No. 64603 | 7 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
Sugar cane cutting knife blade sharpened, VS of cane cutters at work - Noah Sabbo . Young children playing basketball in backyard. Pacific Islander community group having photograph taken in Bundaberg. Men watching Rugby League match on television between Canberra Raiders and Canterbury. Ken Nagus and Mal Meninga featured
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Access No. 64605 | 1 min 43 secs | 1990s | Bundaberg, Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Des Eggmolesse and Cecily at table interview. Good shots of women playing lawn bowls. Interview Phyllis Corowa . Women inside Bowling Club dining room. Des and Phyllis speak to classroom of children. Des coaching at football training. Des cooking meat at family barbeque
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Access No. 64628 | 2 mins 19 secs | 1990s | Bundaberg, Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Pacific Islander children kicking football amongst their group, Joe Leo stands with village people. Monica Leo cleaning yam root with knife. Traditional ceremonial dance with palm fronds. Interview with village chief
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Access No. 64653 | 1 min 18 secs | 1990s | Pentecost Island, Vanuatu | © NFSA | Colour |
Caterpillar tractor through digging up earth in rural landscape, gum trees in B/G. Joe Leo driving tractor, Joe Leo's house, three women and two men watching a video on television . VS of Leo family, ceremonial dance on video, serving tea in Leo household.
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Access No. 64662 | 2 mins 6 secs | 1990s | Bundaberg, Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B& W wave washing over sand
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Access No. 64684 | 7 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | B&W |
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