FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

Title Details

Sojourners

Traces the first wave of Chinese immigrants from the 19th century up until Federation in 1901.
Series : Flowers and the Wide Sea | Episode : 1 | Year : 1994 | Total Duration : 55 Minutes | Producer : Sharon Connolly
Director : Tony Stevens |
ABC report on 39 Chinese illegal immigrants who landed in WA , became lost and walked 140kms. Shots show helicopter flying close to ground, map showing King Edward River area, where people found, immigrants showing how they ate grass to survive, Philip Ruddock (Immigration Minister) to camera saying how Australian compassion is being manipulated, immigrants' boat burning.
Access No. 72596 | 56 secs | 1990s | Kimberleys, WA, Australia | © Australian Broadcasting Corporation | Colour |
Still photograph of Chinese man seated on chair.
Access No. 72609 | 8 secs | Unknown | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Still photograph Henry Parkes and NSW parliamentarians.
Access No. 72610 | 14 secs | 1890s | © National Library of Australia | B&W |
Still photograph of Chinese man with opium pipe.
Access No. 72611 | 8 secs | Unknown | © John Oxley Library | B&W |
Still photograph of group of Chinese men. (Chin Loone family in Darwin)
Access No. 72612 | 8 secs | 1900s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © National Library of Australia | B&W |
Opening titles
Access No. 72613 | 48 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Looking across busy street in Hong Kong. Man, back to camera, standing beside rickshaw in foreground.
Access No. 72616 | 5 secs | 1990s | Hong Kong, China | © NFSA | Colour |
Chinese woman carrying baby walks along street toward wharf to small Chinese water taxi or ferry, people in boat
Access No. 72617 | 15 secs | 1990s | Hong Kong, China | © NFSA | Colour |
Professor Wang Gungwu, historian, to camera talking about family and ancestors important to Chinese, that they don't want to leave.
Access No. 72620 | 10 secs | 1990s | Hong Kong | © NFSA | Colour |
Tilt down from tree tops to old Chinese man picking leafy vegetables in small vegetable patch.
Access No. 72621 | 19 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Professor Wang Gungwu, historian,to camera saying Chinese people leave because they have to but always come back but not always practical.
Access No. 72623 | 19 secs | 1990s | Hong Kong | © NFSA | Colour |
Pan across vegetable patch of leafy green vegetables to house. CU old Chinese man sitting on steps working.
Access No. 72624 | 6 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
POV aerial across blue water
Access No. 72626 | 13 secs | 1990s | © Paramount Pictures | Colour |
Painting of early Australian port.
Access No. 72627 | 13 secs | 1900s | © Probably Paramount Pictures | Colour |
Various shots of convicts working in early Australia.
Access No. 72628 | 19 secs | 1920s | © National Film and Sound Archive | B&W |
Chinese men carrying large crates as they unload goods from wharf or store house, also carrying using shoulder carriers.
Access No. 72629 | 11 secs | 1990s | Hong Kong, China | © NFSA | Colour |
Painting of coolies carrying.
Access No. 72631 | 6 secs | 1890s | © Hong Kong Museum of Art | Colour |
Lynn Pan to camera talking about Chinese coolies, that they were the lowest of the low.
Access No. 72632 | 29 secs | 1990s | Hong Kong | © NFSA | Colour |
Painting of coolies in street.
Access No. 72633 | 6 secs | 1890s | © Hong Kong Museum of Art | Colour |
Drawing of clippers in harbour.
Access No. 72634 | 12 secs | 1890s | Hong Kong | © Hong Kong Museum of Art | B&W |
Close shot water breaking on bow of large sailing clipper / tall ship as it ploughs through water.
Access No. 72635 | 13 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Aerial over sailing tall ship in blue sea.
Access No. 72636 | 3 secs | 1990s | © Paramount Pictures | Colour |
POV from ship across blue water.
Access No. 72637 | 6 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Long pan across Australian bush.
Access No. 72638 | 19 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Eric Rolls, author, to camera wondering how Chinese shepherds were left in outback with little guidance but most did a good job.
Access No. 72639 | 41 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Drawings of early Chinese immigrants on ship
Access No. 72640 | 9 secs | 1880s | © National Library of Australia | B&W |
Busy street in Hong Kong with pedestrians and traffic. Chinese people down escalators and on train.
Access No. 72642 | 11 secs | 1990s | Hong Kong, China | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph of crowded street in China.
Access No. 72645 | 9 secs | 1900s | China | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Lynn Pan to camera talking about China being penetrated by European imperialism in mid 19th century which was destabilising.
Access No. 72646 | 12 secs | 1990s | Hong Kong | © NFSA | Colour |
Various shots Chinese army running toward camera (from Chinese feature film).
Access No. 72647 | 14 secs | 1950s | China | © Chinese Co. Film (Produced 1959) | B&W |
Lynn Pan to camera talking about mass migration due to intense pressures within (China).
Access No. 72648 | 12 secs | 1990s | Hong Kong | © NFSA | Colour |
Tracking through shanty town China.
Access No. 72649 | 15 secs | 1910s | China | © Chinese Film | B&W |
Professor Wang Gungwu, historian, to camera asking what attracted Chinese to emigrate to some place and not another.
Access No. 72650 | 5 secs | 1990s | Hong Kong | © NFSA | Colour |
Lynn Pan to camera talking about was the prospect of striking gold that brought Chinese to Australia
Access No. 72651 | 7 secs | 1990s | Hong Kong | © NFSA | Colour |
B/W hand opens to reveal nuggets of gold (coloured yellow).
Access No. 72652 | 5 secs | 1920s | © Filmworld | Colour |
Still photograph of horse and carriage, Chinese straw hats hanging behind.
Access No. 72653 | 4 secs | Unknown | © State Library of Victoria | B&W |
Still drawing of Chinese working on gold fields.
Access No. 72654 | 4 secs | Unknown | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Painting Cole's wharf.
Access No. 72655 | 9 secs | Unknown | © Mitchell Library | Colour |
Elizabeth Chong, Chinese food writer, to camera talking about her family's first contact with Australia was through her grandfather
Access No. 72656 | 6 secs | 1990s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph of tower of castle.
Access No. 72657 | 9 secs | 1980s | Southern China | © Elizabeth Chong? | Colour |
Chinese man walking behind bullock as it ploughs rice paddy. Geese in foreground.
Access No. 72658 | 5 secs | 1980s | © NFSA | Colour |
Elizabeth Chong, Chinese food writer,to camera saying that young Chinese had heard about gold in America and but decided to join new gold rush in Australia
Access No. 72659 | 14 secs | 1990s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Map tilting down from China to Australia illustrating where Chinese travelled.
Access No. 72660 | 8 secs | 1990s | © Mitchell Library | Colour |
Horse statue with fountain water coming from its mouth. Tram toward camera.
Access No. 72661 | 6 secs | 1990s | Bendigo Vic, Australia. | © NFSA | Colour |
Head of Chinese dragon. Small Chinese shrine.
Access No. 72663 | 9 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph of Chinese men with banners.
Access No. 72666 | 3 secs | Unknown | Bendigo, Vic, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Russell Jack, director Golden Dragon Museum, to camera talking about Chinese coming to Bendigo gold fields.
Access No. 72667 | 14 secs | 1990s | Bendigo, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Various still drawings of Chinese miners.
Access No. 72668 | 19 secs | Unknown | © Golden Dragon Museum Bendigo | B&W |
Grass waving in wind against blue sky. Leaves of tree.
Access No. 72669 | 11 secs | 1990s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Painting of Chinese miners.
Access No. 72671 | 15 secs | 1990s | © Mitchell Library | Colour |
Elizabeth Chong, Chinese food writer, to camera saying before he left home village, he made three promises - he would work hard, that he would repay money lent to him for his passage to Australia and that he would return home.
Access No. 72674 | 33 secs | 1990s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Man climbing stone steps up hill to grave/shrine of his ancestors. Looking across valley with buildings to mountain in background. Man in front of family grave, bowing, clearing grasses.
Access No. 72675 | 43 secs | 1990s | Hong Kong | © NFSA | Colour |
Lynn Pan to camera talking about how the wife (who was left in China when husband went to Australia) often had to care for the aged parents and that if you died overseas, no effort was spared to bring your body home
Access No. 72680 | 21 secs | 1990s | Hong Kong | © NFSA | Colour |
Chinese man lighting candles on family grave, burning money and firecrackers. Man bows.
Access No. 72682 | 19 secs | 1990s | Hong Kong | © NFSA | Colour |
Elizabeth Chong, Chinese food writer, to camera talking about his father not able to land in Victoria because of the expense of a poll tax.
Access No. 72688 | 15 secs | 1990s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Painting European miners on gold fields, one shaking fist, disputing claim (1852).
Access No. 72689 | 24 secs | 1880s | Vic, Australia | © State Library of Victoria | Colour |
Still drawings of Chinese men on board ship.
Access No. 72691 | 13 secs | Unknown | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Map of Australia showing Robe and Guichen Bay
Access No. 72692 | 10 secs | 1880s | Robe, SA, Australia | © Mitchell Library | Colour |
Chris Connolly, historian, to camera talking about Chinese immigrants landing near Robe in South Australia and crossing border into Victoria (to escape poll tax)
Access No. 72693 | 9 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
2 shots of painting of Chinese workers on gold fields.
Access No. 72694 | 17 secs | 1880s | © State Library of Victoria | Colour |
Elizabeth Chong, Chinese food writer, talking about the Chinese journeying to the gold fields in Victoria and how the European miners tried to prevent them
Access No. 72695 | 28 secs | 1990s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Chinese men walking through bushland carrying lage cane baskets (re enactment)
Access No. 72696 | 13 secs | | © NFSA | B&W |
Elizabeth Chong, Chinese food writer, to camera talking about how Chinese people wrote warnings about attacks (on their way to the Victorian gold fields) in Chinese characters
Access No. 72697 | 18 secs | 1990s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Melbourne street. Tilt down Chinese restaurant sign. Kum Den. (Little Bourke Street)?
Access No. 72698 | 12 secs | 1990s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Drawing of Chinese in street (Melbourne)?.
Access No. 72702 | 5 secs | Unknown | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Map. Zoom in to Melbourne and showing also route to Wahgunyah.
Access No. 72703 | 14 secs | 1880s | Vic, Australia | © Mitchell Library | Colour |
Painting of a wagon train.
Access No. 72704 | 11 secs | 1990s | © State Library of Victoria | Colour |
Zoom out still photograph of large Chinese crowd showing faces.
Access No. 72705 | 18 secs | Unknown | China | © FormAsia Books - Hong Kong | B&W |
Miners camp, Lambing Flat.
Access No. 72706 | 4 secs | 1920s | Young, NSW, Australia | © Young Historical Society | B&W |
Chinese figurine.
Access No. 72707 | 7 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photographs Chinese actors.
Access No. 72708 | 2 secs | Unknown | Qld, Australia | © James Cook University - Townsville | B&W |
2 shots of musicians playing Chinese instrument.
Access No. 72709 | 2 secs | 1990s | Goss House, South Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
2 still photographs of Chinese actors.
Access No. 72710 | 17 secs | Unknown | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Eric Rolls, author, to camera talking about Chinese Opera performing
Access No. 72711 | 11 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Various shots of Chinese Chao Feng Orchestra playing. Includes CU's of hand playing different instruments.
Access No. 72712 | 34 secs | 1990s | Goss House, South Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph Joseph Jefferson, actor escaping civil war (1852).
Access No. 72717 | 20 secs | 1880s | Vic, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Still photograph Chinese actor.
Access No. 72718 | 13 secs | Unknown | © FormAsia books | B&W |
Hands in left of frame presenting opium pipe.
Access No. 72719 | 4 secs | Unknown | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Still photograph Chinese actor.
Access No. 72720 | 10 secs | Unknown | © FormAsia Books - Hong Kong | B&W |
Hand on microfiche shuttle. Zip pan across newspaper articles. Newspaper cartoon.
Access No. 72721 | 25 secs | 1990s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Various still photographs of Chinese overseer and Chinese labourers.
Access No. 72724 | 5 secs | Unknown | © State Library of Victoria | B&W |
Eric Rolls, author to camera talking about the use of opium by Chinese people.
Access No. 72725 | 16 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Professor Wang Gungwu, historian, to camera talking about difficulty in finding something to sell to the Chinese
Access No. 72726 | 4 secs | 1990s | Hong Kong | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph Chinese textile workers at looms
Access No. 72727 | 8 secs | Unknown | Hong Kong | © FormAsia Books - Hong Kong | B&W |
Fingers sifting through tea leaves.
Access No. 72728 | 10 secs | 1990s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Professor Wang Gungwu, historian, to camera talking about selling opium to Chinese.
Access No. 72729 | 10 secs | 1990s | Hong Kong | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Still drawings of opium trade stores.
Access No. 72730 | 13 secs | Unknown | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Lynn Pan to camera talking about Chinese habits of gambling and opium smoking arose out of immigration
Access No. 72731 | 29 secs | 1990s | Hong Kong | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph Chinese men gambling.
Access No. 72732 | 12 secs | Unknown | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Eric Rolls, author, to camera talking about Australian police trying to close down gambling.
Access No. 72733 | 5 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph Chinese men gambling, playing fan tan.
Access No. 72734 | 9 secs | 1880s | © National Library of Australia | B&W |
Group of men playing gambling game ÒTwo UpÓ.
Access No. 72735 | 6 secs | 1920s | © National Film and Sound Archive | B&W |
Eric Rolls, author, to camera talking about Chinese gambling enthusiastically and noisily.
Access No. 72736 | 4 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Various shots of Chinese men and women playing mah jong.
Access No. 72737 | 22 secs | 1990s | Hong Kong | © NFSA | Colour |
Painting tents at the gold fields (1850).
Access No. 72738 | 9 secs | 1880s | Vic, Australia | © State Library of Victoria | Colour |
Elizabeth Chong, Chinese food writer, to camera talking about she had read about Chinese people on the goldfields throwing vegetables into a wok.
Access No. 72739 | 7 secs | 1990s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Stirring Chinese food cooking in oil in wok. Hand measuring soy sauce in porcelain Chinese spoon. Hand slicing slashes in fish prior to cooking. Chopping onions. Elizabeth Chong serving Chinese food from plate
Access No. 72740 | 19 secs | 1990s | Gisborne,Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Exterior See Yup temple
Access No. 72745 | 15 secs | 1990s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B/W still drawing of European and Chinese men at goldfields
Access No. 72746 | 15 secs | 1880s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Russell Jack, director Golden Dragon Museum, to camera saying the Chinese were different from the other European gold miners and this led to violence
Access No. 72747 | 13 secs | 1990s | Bendigo, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photographs on gold fields - Chinese man with load on shoulders, men in street standing separately from Chinese man with horse.
Access No. 72748 | 28 secs | Unknown | © John Oxley Library & State Library NSW, Mitchell | B&W |
Chris Connolly , historian,to camera talking about Europeans on the gold fields were from lower sections of society
Access No. 72749 | 15 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph 10 European miners outside store.
Access No. 72750 | 10 secs | 1880s | © State Library NSW - Mitchell Library | B&W |
Still photograph miner with gold pan. (1896)
Access No. 72751 | 3 secs | 1890s | © Battye Library Perth | B&W |
Chris Connolly, historian, to camera talking about European gold miners leaving payable gold fields because they were going to an Eldorado elsewhere.
Access No. 72752 | 8 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
High contrast shots of Chinese panning for gold shaking wooden box device.
Access No. 72753 | 11 secs | 1920s | NSW, Australia | © Young Historical Society | B&W |
Still photograph Chinese miners on gold field.
Access No. 72754 | 14 secs | Unknown | © National Library of Australia | B&W |
Chris Connolly, historian, to camera talking about Chinese gold miners looking for steady income to send back home to China
Access No. 72755 | 10 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still formal photograph Chinese woman and boy.
Access No. 72756 | 10 secs | Unknown | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Chris Connolly, historian, to camera talking about Chinese needing steady income from gold mining and therefore acted in different way from the Europeans
Access No. 72757 | 7 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Professor Wang Gungwu, historian,to camera saying the Chinese gold miners didn't expect to be treated well and it was all right when there was gold to be found but one more people came looking for less gold, racial discrimination came in.
Access No. 72758 | 54 secs | 1990s | Hong Kong | © NFSA | Colour |
Large semi trailer past camera. Motel in background.. Sign ÒYoung Gold Rush MotelÓ. Sign Big Cherry. Truck passes in front of camera. Various shots across deserted old gold fields. Includes one shot looking down into mine shaft.
Access No. 72759 | 35 secs | 1990s | Young, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Chris Connolly, historian, to camera talking about the disturbance at Lambing Flat (Young), NSW caused by lack of law and order
Access No. 72763 | 10 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Many gold miners walking past tents at Lambing Flat.
Access No. 72764 | 8 secs | 1920s | Young, NSW, Australia | © Young Historical Society | B&W |
Chris Connolly, historian, to camera talking about miners used to governing themselves (at Lambing Flat, Young, NSW) and getting rid of undesirables, namely Chinese.
Access No. 72765 | 5 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still drawing miners at gold fields.
Access No. 72766 | 10 secs | 1880s | © State Library of Victoria - La trobe | B&W |
Various shots of miners at anti Chinese rally at Lambing Flat (Young) NSW.
Access No. 72767 | 22 secs | 1920s | Young, NSW, Australia | © Young Historical Society | B&W |
Banner. ÒNo Chinese - Roll UpÓ.
Access No. 72768 | 5 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Various shot of gold miners anti Chinese rally at Lambing Flat .
Access No. 72769 | 12 secs | 1920s | Young, NSW, Australia | © Young Historical Society | B&W |
Eric Rolls, author, to camera talking about miners at Lambing Flat (Young), NSW rounding up Chinese with stock whips and burning their tents.
Access No. 72770 | 12 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU horse's legs galloping.
Access No. 72771 | 8 secs | 1920s | Young, NSW, Australia | © Young Historical Society | B&W |
Sections of still drawing of Chinese gold miners being attacked ÒLambing FlatsÓ riots.
Access No. 72772 | 12 secs | 1880s | Young, NSW, Australia | © National Library of Australia | B&W |
Printed poster headlines. ÒRewardÓ and details
Access No. 72773 | 10 secs | Unknown | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Soldiers marching down street. Women in crinolines in background. waving.
Access No. 72775 | 7 secs | 1880s | © Young Historical Society | B&W |
Blades of windmill turning. Windmill and sheep. Rolling hills with sheep in field. Sign in country ÒChinaman Ck. Rd.Ó Time-lapse fading to early twilight sky.
Access No. 72776 | 26 secs | 1990s | Young, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph Chinese man.
Access No. 72780 | 12 secs | Unknown | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Still drawing Chinese man carrying panniers.
Access No. 72781 | 6 secs | 1880s | © National Library of Australia | B&W |
Still drawing Chinese craftsmen.
Access No. 72782 | 9 secs | 1880s | © National Library of Australia | B&W |
CU hand crafted Chinese kite.
Access No. 72783 | 8 secs | 1990s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Still drawing Chinese on the road to the Palmer (1875)
Access No. 72784 | 6 secs | 1880s | © National Library of Australia | B&W |
Chinese stringed musical instrument being played.
Access No. 72785 | 12 secs | 1990s | Hong Kong | © NFSA | Colour |
Still drawing Chinese men eating on board ship.
Access No. 72786 | 21 secs | 1880s | © Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkley | B&W |
Elizabeth Chong, Chinese food writer, to camera talking about her grandfather working as labourer, road clearing and then bringing in boat loads of Chinese to work for him, he became one of biggest contractors in the business
Access No. 72787 | 45 secs | 1990s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Embossed book opened to reveal ornate page Mr Quong Tart.
Access No. 72788 | 7 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Ian Tart (and Sharon Rorke) to camera talking about his unusual surname
Access No. 72789 | 15 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph Quong Tart.
Access No. 72790 | 9 secs | Unknown | © Ian Tart or Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW | B&W |
Ian Tart to camera explaining the meaning of the name Quong Tart
Access No. 72791 | 4 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Pan across small NSW town Braidwood. Pan across open field. Pan across Braidwood town. Street with cars angle parked in front of shop. Tilt up small creek with lush growth on banks. Running water of small creek.
Access No. 72792 | 1 min 1 sec | 1990s | Braidwood, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Ian Tart to camera talking about Quong Tart becoming a British subject at the age of 21 and moving to the big city
Access No. 72799 | 10 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph Sydney.
Access No. 72800 | 4 secs | Unknown | © State Library of NSW | B&W |
Still photograph Chinese shoemaker
Access No. 72801 | 10 secs | Unknown | Qld, Australia | © James Cook University - Townsville | B&W |
Still photograph 3 Chinese men sorting tobacco leaves?.
Access No. 72802 | 18 secs | Unknown | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Elizabeth Chong, Chinese food writer, to camera talking about her grandfather marrying in his late fifties by getting a matchmaker to find him a wife in China
Access No. 72803 | 29 secs | 1990s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph Elizabeth Chong's grandmother.
Access No. 72804 | 6 secs | Unknown | © Elizabeth Chong | B&W |
Still photograph farmhouse.
Access No. 72805 | 3 secs | Unknown | Wahgunyah, Vic, Australia | © Wahgunyah Historical Society | B&W |
Still photograph school photograph, zoom in on Elizabeth Chong's father.
Access No. 72806 | 10 secs | Unknown | Wahgunyah, Vic, Australia | © Wahgunyah Historical Society | B&W |
Russell Jack,director Golden Dragon Museum, to camera talking about ratio of Chinese men working on goldfields in relation to women
Access No. 72807 | 11 secs | 1990s | Bendigo, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph exterior sign ÒBoarding House - Sam HandÓ. Tilt down to Chinese man, with Caucasian wife and child standing in entrance.
Access No. 72808 | 13 secs | Unknown | © State Library NSW - Mitchell Library | B&W |
Still photograph Caucasian woman then over to her Chinese husband and child.
Access No. 72810 | 9 secs | Unknown | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Front page Queensland Evangelical Standard newspaper (1876).
Access No. 72811 | 7 secs | Unknown | © John Oxley Library | B&W |
Still photograph of Chinese man and Caucasian woman with child.
Access No. 72812 | 15 secs | Unknown | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Green rolling hillside with rows of trees. Looking down on small country town
Access No. 72813 | 7 secs | 1990s | Braidwood, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Drawing Margaret Scarlett who became Quong Tart's wife.
Access No. 72815 | 4 secs | 1880s | Braidwood, NSW, Australia | © State Library NSW - Mitchell Library | B&W |
(Ian Tart and) Sharon Rorke to camera talking about Margaret Scarlett's father being horrified that she wanted to marry Chinese man, Quong Tart.
Access No. 72816 | 15 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph Margaret Scarlett who married Quong Tart.
Access No. 72817 | 11 secs | 1880s | © Ian Tart | B&W |
Still photograph Margaret Scarlett playing piano, Quong Tart standing beside her in prosperous surroundings
Access No. 72818 | 4 secs | 1890s | © Ian Tart or Mitchell Library | B&W |
Still photograph Margaret Scarlett , Quong Tart and family.
Access No. 72819 | 2 secs | Unknown | © Mitchell Library | B&W |
Sharon Rorke to camera talking about when Quong Tart became prosperous, his wife Magaret's father was quite happy about the marriage but it took a long time
Access No. 72820 | 4 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph children of mixed Chinese and Australian marriage
Access No. 72822 | 11 secs | 1880s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Cartoons from ÒBulletinÓ regarding mixed race children (Chinese fathers). ÒBulletinÓ title.
Access No. 72823 | 19 secs | 1890s | © Baby & Serpent from National Library of Australia | B&W |
2 still photograph Chinese man and Caucasian wife and children.
Access No. 72824 | 13 secs | Unknown | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Drawing Quong Tart.
Access No. 72825 | 9 secs | 1890s | © Mitchell Library | B&W |
Still photograph King Street Sydney.
Access No. 72826 | 10 secs | 1880s | © State Library of NSW | B&W |
2 still photographs Quong Tart tea rooms.
Access No. 72827 | 11 secs | 1880s | © Mitchell Library | B&W |
Ian Tart to camera talking about tearooms owned by Quong Tart were popular meeting place, like suffragettes and literary lunches
Access No. 72828 | 10 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
3 aerials Palmer River region.
Access No. 72829 | 11 secs | 1990s | Palmer River, Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Chinese man panning for gold. (Re-enactment)
Access No. 72830 | 5 secs | Unknown | © NFSA | B&W |
Still photograph Kwong Sue Duk and family.
Access No. 72831 | 7 secs | 1880s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Gary Chan to camera talking about how his great grandfather Kwong Sue Duk came over from China for the gold rush
Access No. 72832 | 7 secs | 1990s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph Kwong Sue Duk and family.
Access No. 72833 | 11 secs | Unknown | © Gary Chan | B&W |
Rows of bottle of Chinese herbs on shelf.
Access No. 72834 | 5 secs | 1990s | Joss House, Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Gary Chan unrolling scroll of family tree of Kwong Sue Duk
Access No. 72835 | 13 secs | 1990s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph Kwong Sue Duk's four wives and twenty two children.
Access No. 72837 | 19 secs | 1900s | © Ida Kwong | B&W |
Ida Kwong to camera saying that she is youngest child of Kwong Sue Duk's fourth wife
Access No. 72838 | 10 secs | 1990s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph Ida Kwong, siblings and mother.
Access No. 72839 | 8 secs | 1920s | © Ida Kwong | B&W |
Ida Kwong to camera saying there were no favourites amongst Kwong Sue Duk's many children but as the youngest, she had to do as the older ones told her
Access No. 72840 | 12 secs | 1990s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph Kwong Sue Duk as older man.
Access No. 72841 | 8 secs | 1930s | © Ida Kwong | B&W |
Ida Kwong to camera explaining the order at which her father, Kwong Sue Duk, his four wives and she as one of the children sat at the table.
Access No. 72842 | 22 secs | 1990s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Looking down main street Darwin Northern Territory. Looking down street zoom in on sign Sue Wah Chin Pty. Ltd. Mens Wear, Boys Wear.
Access No. 72843 | 8 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Chinese woman (Lily Ah Toy) bowing to temple altar, holding incense. CU figures on altar.
Access No. 72845 | 17 secs | 1990s | Chinese Temple, Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Lily Ah Toy to camera talking about prejudices Chinese had to put up with when they first came to Australia.
Access No. 72848 | 7 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph undernourished Chinese man.
Access No. 72849 | 10 secs | Unknown | © State Library of Victoria | B&W |
High contrast POV walking through rows of growing plants.
Access No. 72850 | 9 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | B&W |
Flat leaf parsley growing.
Access No. 72851 | 3 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Lily Ah Toy to camera talking about Chinese cutting timber to make a home for themselves.
Access No. 72853 | 11 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph shacks.
Access No. 72854 | 9 secs | Unknown | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Tall ants nest.
Access No. 72855 | 15 secs | 1990s | NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph men standing to camera (1869)
Access No. 72857 | 6 secs | 1880s | © Mortlock Library of South Australiana | B&W |
Still photographs Chinese men building railway.
Access No. 72859 | 32 secs | Unknown | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Still drawing Chinese man selling lettuce to 2 young women over front railing of terrace house.
Access No. 72860 | 10 secs | 1880s | © National Library of Australia | B&W |
2 still photographs Quong Tart and horse.
Access No. 72861 | 7 secs | 1890s | © Possibly Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW | B&W |
Still photograph Quong Tart and another man.
Access No. 72862 | 8 secs | 1890s | © From Quong Tart Family book - Fees may be due to Mitchell Library | B&W |
Hands of Ian Tart opening pamphlet ÒBondi Swimming ClubÓ Swimming CarnivalÓ 1895
Access No. 72863 | 7 secs | 1890s | © Ian Tart | B&W |
Drawing Quong Tart in cricket flannels.
Access No. 72864 | 8 secs | 1890s | © From Quong Tart Family Book - Mitchell Library | B&W |
Ian Tart to camera talking about Quong Tart opening functions
Access No. 72865 | 7 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Drawing Quong Tart characature in kilt.
Access No. 72866 | 8 secs | 1880s | © State Library of NSW | B&W |
Pan across Quong Tart memorabilia papers.
Access No. 72867 | 10 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph Quong Tart.
Access No. 72868 | 14 secs | 1890s | © Mitchell Library | B&W |
Drawing opium smokers.
Access No. 72869 | 4 secs | Unknown | © National Library of Australia | B&W |
Quong Tart and family.
Access No. 72870 | 10 secs | 1880s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Ian Tart to camera reading letter from Quong Tart regarding use of opium.
Access No. 72871 | 11 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph Chinese men and woman smoking opium.
Access No. 72873 | 6 secs | Unknown | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Still photo Chinese man smoking opium.
Access No. 72874 | 14 secs | Unknown | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Ian Tart and (Sharon Rorke) to camera talking about a letter Quong Tart wrote about the opium trade being one of many.
Access No. 72875 | 15 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Stream flowing through flat grassland. Mountain tops in far distance. Looking along street of country town with hotel (pub), various Chinese restaurant signs.
Access No. 72876 | 17 secs | 1990s | Vic, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Elizabeth Chong, Chinese food writer,to camera talking about early Chinese restaurants being visited by Chinese people working on gold mines and that they served a lodging houses.
Access No. 72880 | 20 secs | 1990s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still etching tilt down from houses to Chinese man carrying pannier (1886).
Access No. 72881 | 11 secs | 1880s | The Rocks, Sydney, NSW, Australia | © National Library of Australia | B&W |
Chris Connolly, historian, to camera talking about Chinese people moving to the city making trade unions using anti Chinese feeling to popularise themselves.
Access No. 72882 | 15 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still newspaper by-line ÒAnti-Chinese Deputation.
Access No. 72883 | 4 secs | Unknown | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Chris Connolly, historian, to camera saying that the Chinese entered conflict with European small businesses in the cities especially market gardening, cabinet making and laundries.
Access No. 72884 | 12 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Cartoon - eight hour day.
Access No. 72885 | 14 secs | Unknown | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Chris Connolly, historian, to camera talking about anti-Chinese leagues forming in the 1880's.
Access No. 72886 | 7 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
High rise buildings Sydney, zoom into Rocks area.
Access No. 72887 | 6 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Peter Curzon, geographer, to camera. talking about the Chinese moving into the Rocks area of Sydney
Access No. 72888 | 7 secs | 1990s | The Rocks, Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
2 shots sections of old buildings.
Access No. 72889 | 9 secs | 1990s | The Rocks, Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Smoke rising from burning incense, tilt down to incense sticks.
Access No. 72890 | 7 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph smallpox victim's face.
Access No. 72891 | 5 secs | Unknown | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Still photograph smallpox victim.
Access No. 72892 | 8 secs | Unknown | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Peter Curzon, geographer, to camera talking about the first case of small pox victim in Sydney being a Chinese child and the community was held responsible for the epidemic.
Access No. 72893 | 14 secs | 1990s | The Rocks, Sydney, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Racist newspaper cartoon regarding Chinese.
Access No. 72894 | 13 secs | 1880s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Peter Curzon, geographer, to camera talking about discrimination against Chinese in Sydney.
Access No. 72895 | 6 secs | 1990s | The Rocks, Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph Henry Parkes with arms folded.
Access No. 72896 | 13 secs | 1880s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Pan across newspaper article referring to the Chinese Curse,
Access No. 72897 | 9 secs | Unknown | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Still photograph professors in caps and gowns.
Access No. 72898 | 10 secs | Unknown | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Chris Connolly, historian, to camera talking about social Darwinism at the turn of the century, a war of the races.
Access No. 72899 | 8 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph European man in unusual rickshaws and chair carried by two Chinese men.
Access No. 72900 | 9 secs | Unknown | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Chris Connolly, historian, to camera talking about the war of the races at the turn of the century and one of the races the Europeans feared was the Chinese.
Access No. 72902 | 16 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Racist cartoon depicting the Chinese as a plague of insects (1886).
Access No. 72903 | 4 secs | 1880s | © John Oxley Library | B&W |
POV across ocean water from ship.
Access No. 72904 | 4 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | B&W |
Newspaper article regarding the arrival of the Afghan in Sydney in1888 carrying Chinese passengers not allowed to land in Melbourne.
Access No. 72905 | 7 secs | 1880s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Still photograph Sydney Harbour
Access No. 72906 | 6 secs | 1880s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Mitchell Library | B&W |
Still photograph huge crowd of heads filling frame.
Access No. 72907 | 6 secs | 1880s | © Battye Library - Perth | B&W |
Still drawing Chinese men on board ship Afghan and policeman.
Access No. 72908 | 6 secs | 1880s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Still photograph Henry Parkes seated at desk.
Access No. 72909 | 16 secs | 1880s | © National Library of Australia - Pictorial Section | B&W |
Still drawing Chinese men on deck of ship Afghan
Access No. 72910 | 9 secs | 1880s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Still photograph Quong Tart.
Access No. 72911 | 11 secs | 1900s | © Ian Tart or Mitchel Library | B&W |
Ian Tart to camera talking about Quong Tart being used as a mediator to resolve disputes between Chinese and European communities.
Access No. 72912 | 8 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph Sydney Harbour.
Access No. 72913 | 13 secs | 1880s | © Mitchell Library | B&W |
Still photograph Yet Eng, passenger on the ship Afghan.
Access No. 72914 | 10 secs | 1880s | © James Cook University - Townsville | B&W |
2 still photograph Lo Pak, passenger on the ship Afghan.
Access No. 72915 | 20 secs | 1880s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
2 drawings on board ship ÒThe AfghanÓ.
Access No. 72916 | 14 secs | 1880s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Still photograph Henry Parkes and ministers.
Access No. 72917 | 4 secs | 1880s | © The Archive Authority of New South Wales | B&W |
2 shots of NSW Restrictions Act.
Access No. 72918 | 9 secs | 1880s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Still photograph of Henry Parkes.
Access No. 72919 | 21 secs | 1880s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Still photograph of Henry Parkes and ministers.
Access No. 72920 | 8 secs | 1880s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Still drawing Chinese passengers at wharf (1881).
Access No. 72921 | 13 secs | 1880s | © National Library of Australia | B&W |
Eric Rolls, author, to camera talking about the passengers of the Afghan having to return to China, in effect a death sentence.
Access No. 72922 | 7 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph Chinese people on boat
Access No. 72923 | 15 secs | Unknown | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Still photograph Henry Parkes with wooden staff.
Access No. 72924 | 8 secs | Unknown | © National Library of Australia | B&W |
Racist cartoons against the Chinese.
Access No. 72925 | 27 secs | Unknown | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Eric Rolls, author, to camera saying Australia was to become White Australia.
Access No. 72926 | 6 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Picnic on Mount Wellington (1909).
Access No. 72927 | 8 secs | 1900s | © NFSA | B&W |
Crowds at the Melbourne Cup races (1909).
Access No. 72928 | 6 secs | 1900s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Various shots of Federation parade.
Access No. 72929 | 30 secs | 1900s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © National Film and Sound Archive | B&W |
Still photograph Chinese mother and baby.
Access No. 72930 | 5 secs | 1900s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Still photograph group of Chinese business men in European suits including Quong Tart.
Access No. 72931 | 9 secs | 1900s | © Ian Tart or Mtchell Library | B&W |
New paper headline. ÒCity Sensation - Murderous Attack - Upon Mr. Quong Tart - in his private office - battered with an iron bar - escape of the assailant.
Access No. 72932 | 12 secs | 1900s | © State Library of NSW - Mitchell | B&W |
(Ian Tart) and Sharon Rorke to camera talking about attack on Quong Tart.
Access No. 72933 | 4 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Quong Tart and family.
Access No. 72934 | 9 secs | Unknown | © Ian Tart or Mitchell Library | B&W |
Newspaper page turning to reveal ÒFuneral of the late Mr. Quong Tart.Ó
Access No. 72935 | 7 secs | 1990s | © State Library of NSW - Mitchell | Colour |
2 still photographs Quong Tart's funeral.
Access No. 72936 | 14 secs | 1900s | © Mitchell Library or Ian Tart | B&W |
Still photograph across farm buildings.
Access No. 72937 | 10 secs | 1900s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Elizabeth Chong, Chinese food writer, to camera talking about her grandfather returning to China with his family.
Access No. 72938 | 6 secs | 1990s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph Elizabeth Chong's grandfather and family.
Access No. 72939 | 5 secs | Unknown | © Elizabeth Chong | B&W |
Liner into port.
Access No. 72940 | 4 secs | 1900s | © National Film and Sound Archive | B&W |
Various shots busy Chinese street scenes .
Access No. 72941 | 11 secs | 1920s | China | © Danmarks Radio | B&W |
Fade up red Chinese writing on headstone. Various shots of headstone lit by spotlight at night.
Access No. 72942 | 32 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Drawings of junks in Hong Kong Harbour
Access No. 72945 | 1 sec | 1880s | Hong Kong | © Hong Kong Museum of Art | B&W |
Drawing group of Chinese men in group eating.
Access No. 72946 | 20 secs | Unknown | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Professor Wang Gungwu, historian, talking about gold fever and people, the Chinese no exception, would go anywhere to find it.
Access No. 124368 | 9 secs | 1990s | Hong Kong | © NFSA | Colour |
Painting of Chinese working on gold field including panning
Access No. 124369 | 18 secs | 1880s | © Possibly State Library of NSW | B&W |
Painting of Chinese man being pulled by his pig tail by European miners
Access No. 124370 | 10 secs | Unknown | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |