FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

Opening titles. CUs rare chickens, experts with chickens describing their characteristics. VS Mark Tully tending to chickens in his family-owned Blue Hills Poultry Stud, collecting eggs and poaching eggs in kitchen. Tully to camera describing his mental state. VS turkeys, Tully amongst poultry, talking to rafter of turkeys. VS chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys. Interview Tully's mother. Introduction to various breeds of chickens. Tully placing eggs in incubator. Map of Australia with chickens overlaid showing route of Tully's planned journey to locate rare chickens. Illustrations from books of various breeds of chickens. Interviews with Tully's father John and mother Annette about his upcoming trip. Tully leaving and good WS rolling green countryside. Interviews with Tully as he drives, good shots countryside.

Mark Tully driving through green countryside to home of poultry fancier Judy Hunt, Tully and Hunt inspecting her white and blue Spanish fowl. Interview with Hunt, rare Spanish in lap. Tully driving with chickens in caged back of car. Sunset fade to dawn, motel worker with breakfast tray, Tully leaving motel. Map showing Tully's progress. Tully arriving at Gilgandra home of Stanton to seek advice, Tully inspecting Stanton's Minorcas, exchanging information on car bonnet. Man watering ducks in cages. VS driving, looking at chickens and talking to people. Tully cleaning back of car out. Low angle shipping containers pulled along railway tracks, Tully with mobile phone, railway crossing. Interview with Tully discussing his depression. Travelling shot at dusk. Tully driving car onto ferry.

Mark Tully arriving at Devonport Annual Poultry Show, Tas. Interview with Poultry Judge Ken Scott. VS competitors and judges looking at chickens. Interview with Poultry Judge Trevor Kuhl. Photographer, opening speech, visitors looking at exhibits. Competitors being served lunch, interview with the Ladies Committee. Interview with poultry farmer Philip Evans, holding large white chicken. Tully talking to various people, Evans receiving ribbons, raffle draw. WS ducks on pond, Tully helping poultry farmer remove lifeless ducks from his sheds after dog attack. VS injured and bleeding ducks, owner distressed. Owner patting dog, good shots ducks on pond, CU duck protecting eggs, cocks sparring. Interview with Tully, VS fowl in yard. White rooster crowing. Good WS picturesque country road. Tully with poultry fancier Harry Cooper, interview with Cooper showing his Houdin cockeral. VS driving through picturesque countryside. CU Tully warming hands with breathe.

Mark Tully arriving at house of John, VS of his old breed poultry and book illustrations of similar breeds. Geese in green paddock, Campine chickens feeding at John's feet. VS Tully driving past mountains in landscape, talking to chicken farmers. VS Tully with his poultry back at his home. Tully performing for children attending Young Poultry Fanciers Training Day, Gympie, Qld and hypnotising chicken. CU rooster, CUs other breeds of chickens. CU chick pulsating in cracked egg, Tully holding hatching egg. Men walking on wharf, Tully looking at sea. CU chick emerging from egg and falling into Tully's hand.