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Lily Ah Toy

Lily Ah Toy lived an extraordinary life as a Northern Territory pioneer.
Series : Australian Biography Series 4 | Year : 1995 | Total Duration : 26 Minutes | Producer : Frank Heimans
Director : Frank Heimans |
WS exterior of Chinese temple and interior WS with MS to pioneer Lily Ah Toy lighting incense at alter. CU alter figures and GS Ah Toy bowing at brass pot and planting incense sticks in it. CU interview with Ah Toy talking about reactions to the gender imbalance with her siblings when she was born. CU smoke wafting from incense and opening titles.
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Access No. 147111 | 1 min 10 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of pioneer Lily Ah Toy's mother, Linoy Moo, sitting with hands crossed, 1920.
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Access No. 147224 | 6 secs | 1920s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © Lily Ah Toy | B&W |
CU interview with Lily Ah Toy talking about her mother's lack of education.
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Access No. 147225 | 20 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of pioneer Lily Ah Toy as a baby sitting on her mother's lap, 1918.
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Access No. 147226 | 6 secs | 1910s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © Lily Ah Toy | B&W |
CU interview with Lily Ah Toy talking about her family and the problems they had in communicating with Australian society.
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Access No. 147227 | 39 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU grainy B&W photograph of pioneer Lily Ah Toy's father c. 1900.
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Access No. 147228 | 6 secs | 1900s | China | © Lily Ah Toy | B&W |
CU interview with Lily Ah Toy talking about her father's Haka origins.
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Access No. 147229 | 7 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS B&W photograph of group of Chinese Haka standing in line.
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Access No. 147230 | 5 secs | 1900s | China | © Unclear | B&W |
CU interview with Lily Ah Toy talking about her father's Haka origins.
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Access No. 147231 | 12 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS B&W photograph of men working on railway.
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Access No. 147232 | 5 secs | 1900s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © Unclear | B&W |
MS interview with Lily Ah Toy talking about her father's work as a ganger on the railways then as a gold miner.
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Access No. 147233 | 37 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS B&W photograph of group standing outside Chinese building.
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Access No. 147234 | 5 secs | 1900s | China | © Lily Ah Toy | B&W |
MS interview with Lily Ah Toy talking about why her father's links back to China were cut. Ah Toy also talks about the food her family ate when she was a child.
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Access No. 147235 | 39 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS B&W photograph of pioneer Lily Ah Toy at 13 with mother Linoy Moo posing on a seat with her six children.
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Access No. 147236 | 6 secs | 1930s | China | © Lily Ah Toy | B&W |
MS interview with Lily Ah Toy talking about the food philosophy she grew up with.
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Access No. 147237 | 17 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS B&W photograph of two male Chinese gardeners at Burrundie with thatched roof hut in background.
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Access No. 147238 | 5 secs | 1930s | Burrundie, NT, Australia | © Lily Ah Toy | B&W |
MS interview with Lily Ah Toy talking about how to make sugar cane water and the properties that certain foods held in Chinese cooking.
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Access No. 147239 | 30 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS B&W photograph of the extended family of pioneer Lily Ah Toy.
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Access No. 147240 | 8 secs | 1930s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © Lily Ah Toy | B&W |
WS B&W photograph of simple Chinese temple, Darwin.
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Access No. 147241 | 6 secs | 1960s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © Northern Territory Library | B&W |
CU interview with Lily Ah Toy talking about celebrating Chinese New Year as a child.
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Access No. 147242 | 16 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Pan across WS B&W photograph of Chinese dragon procession.
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Access No. 147243 | 10 secs | 1930s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © Northern Territory Library | B&W |
WS B&W photograph of shops and houses on Darwin street, possibly Cavenagh Street c.1920s.
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Access No. 147244 | 6 secs | 1930s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © Northern Territory Library | B&W |
CU interview with Lily Ah Toy talking about discrimination between poor and rich children in Darwin when she was growing up.
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Access No. 147245 | 41 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS B&W photograph of children seated in front of Darwin Public School building and posing on stairs and on landing above those seated c.1930s.
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Access No. 147246 | 5 secs | 1930s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © Northern Territory Library | B&W |
CU interview with Lily Ah Toy talking about starting schooling with little English.
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Access No. 147247 | 8 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS B&W photograph of Darwin Public School, 1937.
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Access No. 147248 | 4 secs | 1930s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © Lily Ah Toy | B&W |
CU interview with Lily Ah Toy talking about her dislike of school.
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Access No. 147249 | 5 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of pioneer Lily Ah Toy as a schoolgirl holding book in her hand.
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Access No. 147250 | 5 secs | 1930s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © Lily Ah Toy | B&W |
MS interview with Lily Ah Toy talking about her expectations on leaving school. Zoom in to CU as she talks about her first job as a house maid.
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Access No. 147251 | 48 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of pioneer Lily Ah Toy's husband Jimmy as a young man.
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Access No. 147252 | 5 secs | 1930s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © Lily Ah Toy | B&W |
CU interview with Lily Ah Toy talking about her early days with husband-to-be Jimmy Ah Toy.
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Access No. 147253 | 4 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS B&W photograph of Chinese market garden, Pine Creek, 1912.
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Access No. 147254 | 6 secs | 1910s | Pine Creek, NT, Australia | © Northern Territory Library | B&W |
CU interview with Lily Ah Toy talking about her wedding to Jimmy Ah Toy.
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Access No. 147255 | 18 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU B&W photograph of pioneer Lily Ah Toy.
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Access No. 147256 | 5 secs | 1930s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © Lily Ah Toy | B&W |
CU interview with Lily Ah Toy explaining about her Chinese wedding ceremony. Zoom out to MS as she speaks. Graphic of map of Australia with zoom into Pine Creek marked on the Northern Territory shown in relation to Darwin.
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Access No. 147257 | 1 min 9 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Sepia photograph of Jimmy Ah Toy's General Store superimposed on map.
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Access No. 147258 | 1940s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © Lily Ah Toy | Colour |
WS B&W photograph of Pine Creek with buildings, trees and ridge in background.
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Access No. 147259 | 4 secs | 1940s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © Lily Ah Toy | Colour |
MS interview with Lily Ah Toy talking about her husband Jimmy's General Store in Pine Creek in the 1930s.
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Access No. 147260 | 10 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS B&W photograph of Jimmy Ah Toy's General Store at Pine Creek with petrol bowsers to the side.
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Access No. 147261 | 5 secs | 1940s | Pine Creek, NT, Australia | © Lily Ah Toy | B&W |
MS interview with Lily Ah Toy talking about the birth of her first child, her son Edward.
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Access No. 147262 | 35 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of Dr Clyde Fenton, the Flying Doctor, with cars in background.
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Access No. 147263 | 5 secs | 1930s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © John Fairfax | B&W |
CU interview with Lily Ah Toy talking about Dr Clyde Fenton of Fling Doctor fame delivering her first child, Edward.
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Access No. 147264 | 31 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS B&W photograph of Flying Doctor Clyde Fenton and two onlookers with his plane. Appears to be a public presentation to Dr Fenton of a new De Havilland UH-UQV, 1937.
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Access No. 147265 | 4 secs | 1930s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © Northern Territory Library | B&W |
CU interview with Lily Ah Toy talking about her mother-in-law's death.
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Access No. 147266 | 10 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of Jimmy Ah Toy's parents, Jimmy Ah Yu and Leung See.
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Access No. 147267 | 5 secs | 1930s | Pine Creek, NT, Australia | © Lily Ah Toy | B&W |
CU interview with Lily Ah Toy talking about her mother-in-law's death and the young children she left behind.
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Access No. 147268 | 5 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS B&W photograph of pioneer Lily Ah Toy's orphaned sisters-in-law Sheila & Francis as young girls with Lily's own sons Laurence and Edward, 1940.
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Access No. 147269 | 5 secs | 1940s | Pine Creek, NT, Australia | © Lily Ah Toy | B&W |
Zoom in to CU interview with Lily Ah Toy talking about looking after her 2 year-old sister-in-law after her mother-in-law's early death.
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Access No. 147270 | 54 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS B&W photograph of pioneer Lily Ah Toy posing with husband Jimmy and baby Edward, 1938. Fade to WS of Lily and Jimmy with their five children, 1940s.
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Access No. 147271 | 13 secs | 1940s | Pine Creek, NT, Australia | © Lily Ah Toy | B&W |
CU interview with Lily Ah Toy talking about helping out in her husband Jimmy's store.
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Access No. 147272 | 11 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS B&W photograph of truck, horses and people on main street in Pine Creek outside Jimmy Ah Toy's Store. Pan to store awning.
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Access No. 147273 | 7 secs | 1940s | Pine Creek, NT, Australia | © Lily Ah Toy | B&W |
CU interview with Lily Ah Toy talking about liking to help people in her community.
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Access No. 147274 | 12 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS B&W photograph of a man and two women walking down main street in Pine Creek, 1920s or 1930s.
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Access No. 147275 | 5 secs | 1930s | Pine Creek, NT, Australia | © Unclear | B&W |
CU interview with Lily Ah Toy talking about some of the emergencies she encountered during her years at Pine Creek.
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Access No. 147276 | 1 min 6 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS B&W photograph of a two donkeys pulling a long cart driven by Fred Turfy outside the Ah Toy store, Pine Creek, 1946.
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Access No. 147277 | 4 secs | 1940s | Pine Creek, NT, Australia | © Lily Ah Toy | B&W |
CU interview with Lily Ah Toy talking about some of the local emergencies she encountered during her years at the Ah Toy store in Pine Creek.
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Access No. 147278 | 37 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W archival footage with tilt to Japanese fighter planes flying overhead and MS antiaircraft guns setting aim. WS bombing of Darwin with plumes of smoke rising over skyline. Tilt to bombers flying away in formation.
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Access No. 147279 | 16 secs | 1930s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © Thought Equity Motion | Colour |
MS interview with Lily Ah Toy talking about Japanese planes flying over Pine Creek after the bombing of Darwin. Zoom in to CU of Ah Toy as she describes evacuating the town.
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Access No. 147280 | 56 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W archival footage with low angle view of steam train passing camera in countryside with grasses by tracks.
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Access No. 147281 | 4 secs | 1930s | Australia | © Unclear | B&W |
CU interview with pioneer Lily Ah Toy talking about being evacuated by train from the town of Pine Creek to Burden during the Japanese bombing of Darwin.
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Access No. 147282 | 13 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS B&W photograph of two Chinese men sitting beside railway siding at the town of Burden during the Ah Toys evacuation from Pine Creek during the Japanese bombing of Darwin during W.W.II.
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Access No. 147283 | 5 secs | 1940s | Pine Creek, NT, Australia | © Lily Ah Toy | B&W |
MS interview with pioneer Lily Ah Toy talking about being evacuated overland to Alice Springs during W.W.II.
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Access No. 147284 | 9 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W archival footage of convoy of trucks through the Northern Territory and WS of soldiers walking along dirt roads.
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Access No. 147285 | 7 secs | 1930s | Australia | © Unclear | Colour |
WS B&W photograph of pioneer Lily Ah Toy's house in Adelaide, 1942. Pan to side garden.
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Access No. 147286 | 10 secs | 1940s | Adelaide, SA, Australia | © Lily Ah Toy | B&W |
MS interview with pioneer Lily Ah Toy talking about the shared living arrangements in the Adelaide house they were evacuated to during W.W.II.
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Access No. 147287 | 24 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS B&W photograph of Jimmy Ah Toy standing in front of corrugated iron building with six children.
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Access No. 147288 | 6 secs | 1940s | Pine Creek, NT, Australia | © Lily Ah Toy | B&W |
MS interview with pioneer Lily Ah Toy talking about returning to Pine Creek after being evacuated to Adelaide during W.W.II.
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Access No. 147289 | 45 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS B&W photograph of Jimmy Ah Toy's store opened in Darwin after World War II, 1946.
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Access No. 147290 | 5 secs | 1940s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © Lily Ah Toy | B&W |
WS B&W photograph of Jimmy Ah Toy sitting in cane chair in his shop, 1960s.
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Access No. 147291 | 4 secs | 1960s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © Lily Ah Toy | B&W |
MS interview with pioneer Lily Ah Toy talking about the role her husband Jimmy played in the community. Zoom to tighter MS of Ah Toy talking about her children's education in Darwin.
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Access No. 147292 | 1 min 5 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS B&W photograph of pioneer Lily Ah Toy's mother standing on steps with Lily's five children.
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Access No. 147293 | 5 secs | 1960s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © Lily Ah Toy | B&W |
CU interview with pioneer Lily Ah Toy talking about why she placed emphasis on her children's education.
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Access No. 147294 | 6 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS B&W photograph of pioneer Lily Ah Toy, her husband Jimmy and their five children posing in front of store.
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Access No. 147295 | 5 secs | 1960s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © Lily Ah Toy | B&W |
CU interview with pioneer Lily Ah Toy talking about why she placed emphasis on her children's education.
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Access No. 147296 | 3 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W wedding photographs of pioneer Lily Ah Toy's children on their wedding days.
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Access No. 147297 | 12 secs | 1960s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © Lily Ah Toy | B&W |
CU interview with pioneer Lily Ah Toy talking about her children's interracial marriages and her feeling on that.
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Access No. 147298 | 3 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Colour archival news footage of the aftermath of Cyclone Tracy with footage of extensive wreckage, 1974.
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Access No. 147299 | 25 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © ABC-TV | Colour |
MS interview with pioneer Lily Ah Toy talking about being out of town during Cyclone Tracy. Zoom in to CU as she talks about he son Laurence being in Darwin at the time.
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Access No. 147300 | 29 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Colour archival news footage of the aftermath of Cyclone Tracy with footage of extensive wreckage, 1974.
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Access No. 147301 | 12 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © ABC-TV | Colour |
CU interview with pioneer Lily Ah Toy talking about losing their store because of Cyclone Tracy. Zoom out to MS of Ah Toy talking about her husband Jimmy's illness. Zoom in to CU as she talks about her brother's death.
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Access No. 147302 | 35 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Zoom in to MS colour photograph of pioneer Lily Ah Toy with husband Jimmy, his skin discoloured from cancer treatment.
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Access No. 147303 | 6 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © Lily Ah Toy | Colour |
CU interview with pioneer Lily Ah Toy talking about her husband Jimmy and his service to the Pine Creek community.
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Access No. 147304 | 4 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of Jimmy Ah Toy receiving MBE, 1967.
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Access No. 147305 | 7 secs | 1960s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © Lily Ah Toy | B&W |
CU interview with pioneer Lily Ah Toy talking about her husband Jimmy being the first Australian-Chinese person to be awarded the MBE.
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Access No. 147306 | 14 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of pioneer Lily Ah Toy and husband Jimmy.
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Access No. 147307 | 5 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © Lily Ah Toy | B&W |
CU interview with pioneer Lily Ah Toy talking about missing her husband Jimmy.
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Access No. 147308 | 14 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS B&W photograph of pioneer Lily Ah Toy and husband Jimmy with Land Rover in front of their store, 1947.
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Access No. 147309 | 8 secs | 1940s | Pine Creek, NT, Australia | © Lily Ah Toy | B&W |
MS interview with pioneer Lily Ah Toy laughing about the arguments she would have with her husband Jimmy.
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Access No. 147310 | 8 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS B&W photograph of pioneer Lily Ah Toy holding hands aloft with two other women holding poster for Bicentennial NT womanise' project.
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Access No. 147311 | 4 secs | 1980s | Pine Creek, NT, Australia | © Lily Ah Toy | B&W |
MS B&W photograph of pioneer Lily Ah Toy with house in background.
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Access No. 147312 | 5 secs | 1990s | Pine Creek, NT, Australia | © Lily Ah Toy | B&W |
CU interview with pioneer Lily Ah Toy talking about reluctance to ride in an ultra-light plane.
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Access No. 147313 | 45 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS colour photograph of pioneer Lily Ah Toy's son standing with ultra-light aircraft on red dirt.
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Access No. 147314 | 6 secs | 1990s | Pine Creek, NT, Australia | © Lily Ah Toy | B&W |
MS interview with pioneer Lily Ah Toy talking about deciding to ride in an ultra-light plane and her belief in fate. VS of Ah Toy with incense in Chinese temple and CU of religious deity. Zoom out from Ah Toy sounding gong and bell.
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Access No. 147315 | 2 mins 24 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
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