FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

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Welcome to Woomera - Out Takes Compile

A film about ordinary people in a small town caught up in big events.
Year : 2004 | Total Duration : 55 Minutes | Producer : Steve Thomas, Kim Anning
Director : Steve Thomas |
WS post office exterior. GS glass doors of post office. MS woman entering post office and various views of counter seen from glass door. MS post office workers helping clients from behind counter. CU stack of beer holders. GS row of computers and shift focus between display of boomerangs and rack of postcards. GS of post office shop. GS postal worker using computer at counter with sorting shelves behind him. VS of workers activities.
Access No. 146116 | 6 mins 14 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS teenagers skateboarding in paved square. CU photos of Woomera area on computer screen.
Access No. 146119 | 1 min 25 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU certificate for Best Exhibit of Annual Spring Show. CU Australian Pistol Shooters' Bulletin magazine. CU mail bags hanging in post office and zoom in to magazines in bottom of bag. GS postal worker loading bags and boxes on motorcycles for mail delivery. VS postal worker leaving on motor bike with mail in basket and bag. Tracks of postman delivering mail on motorbike in suburban streets. GS young girls wheeling go-kart along footpath. GS sign for K1 Launch Operation. WS raven on horizontal pipe.
Access No. 146120 | 6 mins 6 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS soldiers in camouflage gear checking backpacks and preparing to depart shed. VS of them loading backpacks onto backs and faces painted in camouflage. VS soldiers loading backpacks into truck, painting faces, looking at compass and receiving instruction. VS soldiers sitting in back of covered truck and WS of trucks leaving shed. Track of trucks travelling on road seen POV of passenger. Good travelling shot of flat desert landscape and low hanging grey cloud seen from truck. VS soldiers walking across desert landscape and dry river bed.
Access No. 146121 | 21 mins 14 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS satellite dishes in red desert landscape with large white cranes in foreground. Zoom in to GS of man working on metal structure over crane. Tilt down to disks on satellite dish.
Access No. 146122 | 1 min 41 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU red roses with shift focus to landscape in background seen beyond metal fence. CUs sulphur-crested cockatoo in cage and CUs cockatiels.
Access No. 146123 | 1 min 31 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Various WS of pipeline running through desert landscape. GS older couple with their car and caravan parked outside apartment block eating lunch. High angle WS over road through desert landscape. Convoy of caravans along road. Various WS of pipeline running alongside red dirt road through desert extending towards horizon.
Access No. 146124 | 4 mins 32 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU rows of woodworking implements attached to pegboard. CU to various gouges and chisels.
Access No. 146125 | 17 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
VS woman cooking bean dish in saucepan on stove. Zoom to CUs of her stirring food and adding condiments. CU pasta being stirred in pot.
Access No. 146126 | 37 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS red dirt road extending to horizon in outback landscape and pan right to red landscape with white puffy clouds in blue sky. WS formation of rain clouds over flat outback landscape. WS pale dirt road extending towards horizon through red desert landscape and pan right to flat red landscape with clouds in blue sky. WS pan across low scrub over flat desert landscape.
Access No. 146127 | 1 min 17 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS 4WD on red dirt outback road making three-point turn and driving towards camera. Pan across rubbly desert landscape to 4WD on dirt road. Track of 4WD driving towards camera then leaving road and driving across desert. Good WS of flat outback landscape with soft clouds turning pink in late afternoon sky. Travelling shot POV car past red outback landscape with clouds in blue sky. Travelling shot along pale dirt road seen from driver's view.
Access No. 146128 | 3 mins 1 sec | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS sheep in outback scrub seen through heat haze and track of lambs walking across scene. WS sheep grazing beside bitumen road and lamb running across road. Tilt down from exposed beam structure of ceiling of large barn-like workshop to welder at work on metal girder. Zoom in on flames and tilt to welder's visor. CU of welder's face wearing sunglasses with protective mask raised. CU of welder lowering his mask and goggles and continuing to work wearing full protective suit. GS of welder finishing.
Access No. 146129 | 2 mins 53 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Night shots of Cangaroo radio telescope from various angles
Access No. 146130 | 1 min 26 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU Australian flag waving in breeze
Access No. 146131 | 58 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS railway tracks in flat rural landscape and lengthy freight train towards and past camera. VS of goods trucks and cargo carriages.
Access No. 146132 | 1 min 9 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Tilt down CU of warning sign for bomb target site from the Department of Defence. Good WS of salt lake then zoom out to include warning sign. MS man walking across salt pan. WS of salt pan in heat haze and pans. VS of crusted surface of salt lake. Tilt from WS of clear deep blue sky down to sun low over salt lake. WS of salt lake in yellow sunset. Pans of salt lake in purple light. GS crusty salt lake surface and various views of lake and shore in various stages of sunset.
Access No. 146133 | 7 mins 53 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU sheep behind metal grill. VS sheep waiting in pen and GS of farmers guiding reluctant sheep along passage with dogs barking alongside them. CUs shearing equipment and VS sheep being shorn in small portable shed. Brown sheep dog walking on backs of sheep in holding pen. GS bales of fleece. WS dirt tracks through outback landscape and pan to LS of shearing operation.
Access No. 146134 | 5 mins 9 secs | 2000s | Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |