FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

Title Details

Education?

This film looks at possible future choices for education, ranging from the free-schools approach to the use of technology as a teaching supplement.
Year : 1975 | Total Duration : 27 Minutes | Producer : Malcolm Otton
Director : Chris Noonan |
Dramatised scene. CU of bottle brush flower then CU on gum leaves and Australian bush, small girl walking through the bush, grassed clearing in bush with collection of furniture, rocking horse, blackboard and painting easel, Paddington Bear doll on ladder. Small girl investigates scene.
Access No. 130347 | 1 min 25 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
CU on a NSW car number plate and Learner Drivers ÒLÓ sign, man milking a cow and watched by woman, man making pizza in front window of shop, man hang gliding from sandhills or sand dunes
Access No. 130349 | 33 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Businessman in suit rushing through automatic opening doors and checking his watch, men on ferries reading newspapers, children in yellow rain coats waiting for school bus. Hunter Hill Coaches bus stops for children, various shots of children on bus, various shots of children arriving at schools
Access No. 130350 | 1 min 10 secs | 1970s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Dramatised section - small girl at table and chairs with various toys in bush setting, playing with a box of matches and lighting a match.
Access No. 130351 | 30 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Collage of images from birth to pre school ages. New born baby in a hospital crib or cot being wheeled along corridor by nurse, CU of baby feeding from a bottle, another being spoon fed, toddlers drinking from cups, CU of small boy painting, playing with play dough, in playgrounds, scene from a play group, sand pit, small girl with box of dress up clothes and putting on school uniform.
Access No. 130352 | 2 mins 1 sec | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Collage of images of school age children. High angle shot of a school assembly, children receiving awards at assembly, VS of lines of children, children playing on playground equipment, swings school band, children marching off to class, children playing in sand pit, various classroom scenes. CU on faces as teacher reads to class. Watching video, using calculators, teacher writing on blackboard, boy reads his creative writing story. Interview with teacher Greg Hodge, about his teaching methods and scenes of his classroom at work. Small girl painting and playing with toys.
Access No. 130353 | 6 mins 56 secs | 1970s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Pedestrians crossing at traffic lights, CU of Walk road sign, Hari Stresna group singing, women process workers sewing in production line of factory, women sitting in audience, flashing sign Applause Please, audience clapping, marching band and Anzac parade, children in crowd waving Australian flags,
Access No. 130354 | 53 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Television monitor featuring child's face. Pan across family memorabilia displayed on shelf. Ornaments - shell ship, red bull, wedding photos, black ornament of woman with red lips, dolls, Little Women story book. Pan across assembly of high school children.
Access No. 130355 | 56 secs | 1970s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival footage of protesting school children, on strike for long hair,
Access No. 130356 | 59 secs | 1970s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Small girl playing with toys in bush setting, zoom in on large educational facility, university. Various shots of a lecture with adult students taking notes. Teacher in classroom with student teachers watching on. Group of teachers discussing the streaming of students and the Piaget theories of Education. Various shots of teachers different teaching situations
Access No. 130357 | 6 mins 12 secs | 1970s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Examples of progressive school classrooms where children learn without rules - self directed education. Boy sitting at older style computer. VS of empty school buildings with bars on doors and windows and high wire fences. Montage of shots from the program. Small girl carrying a small suitcase, walking with woman and holding her hand , she joins a kindergarten class as a new member of the class.
Access No. 130358 | 3 mins 54 secs | 1970s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |