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Home Sweet Home

Shows the organisation and effort required to reconstruct Darwin after it was destroyed by Cyclone Tracy on Christmas Day, 1974 and reveals the social impact of the cyclone.
Year : 1975 | Total Duration : 44 Minutes | Producer : Suzanne Baker
Director : Philip Robertson |
Pan devastation caused by Cyclone Tracy. Blue and white O'Halaf school bus travelling through area. Mother of Asian descent and three small children standing in rain waiting for bus, children board and mother waves goodbye, holding umbrella. POV car driving along looking out to devastated buildings and back to bus. POV bus past ruined buildings. Slow track with child in raincoat walking along and opening titles. (10 February 1975)
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Access No. 126871 | 2 mins 13 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
VS Emergency Services Committee meeting (24 January 1975) discussing concerns about rebuilding of Darwin following Cyclone Tracy. Speaker Ray McHenry, Director Emergency Services talking about clearing blocks. Low flying aircraft over street and camera. VS Members of Operation Navy Help Darwin riding in back of open truck through area of devastation. RAN
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Access No. 126872 | 1 min 35 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Bulldozer clearing tangled wreckage from Cyclone Tracy. Two men picking through debris trying to salvage some possessions, on man says he is doing it for the kids, dreads to think what it would have been like (during the cyclone). More men raking through wreckage, truck carrying branches and debris. Man talks about being overseas for Christmas so has some winter clothes. (February 1975)
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Access No. 126873 | 1 min 40 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
VS Bulldozer shovelling corrugated iron after Cyclone Tracy. Man talks about getting a roof for his home and maybe being able to get a caravan, he talks about his family being in the south but hoping to settle back together in Darwin. Large McDonal truck driving through damaged residential area. (February 1975)
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Access No. 126874 | 2 mins 10 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Truck to camera along road with mass of tangled corrugated iron and cables hanging out, some falling onto road. Clearing wreckage after Cyclone Tracy . Salvation Army Land Rover driving along. Men working on clearing wreckage from home, have a break and discuss work.(February 1975).
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Access No. 126875 | 1 min | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Emergency Services Committee meeting (24 January 1975) talking about the use of Moscow Circus tent for performances and to house people (left homeless after Cyclone Tracy). CU Ray McHenry, Director Emergency Services.
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Access No. 126876 | 30 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Skeletal remains of home devastated by Cyclone Tracy. VS British man Bruce McDougall making barbecue, neighbour fills billy can. Dogs watch. Woman Jean McDougall at makeshift outdoor kitchen. Cat walking. McDougalls and neighbours Ray and Betty Bellert prepare meal. Bruce says they don't know what's going on, only just received power, didn't know if able to rebuild, worries about finance. Jean talks about improving present conditions, bringing children back, assistance to rebuild. (February 1975)
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Access No. 126877 | 2 mins 33 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Hender family - Woman, Janice, in remains of home devastated by Cyclone Tracy pan down to teenage children around tent pan to area they have cleared. She talks about keeping dry. Husband Gordon with patch on his eye talks about regulations being restrictive, Janice says they can't make decisions about rebuilding until government makes arrangements. Couple laugh as they pick through rubble trying to find her a matching pair of shoes. (February 1975).
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Access No. 126878 | 1 min 24 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Looking through broken window of church to wedding ceremony taking place, puddles on floor, holes in roof following Cyclone Tracy. Couple Mike and Robyn Hunt come out, people watching including men in helmets, confetti. Cars with ribbon of front drives past wrecked buildings and draw up to remains of home and caravan. (February 1975)
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Access No. 126879 | 1 min 35 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Emergency Services Committee meeting chaired by Ray McHenry giving reports on naval assistance, food, tenancy, financial assistance to Darwin after Cyclone Tracy (24 January 1975). Aerial down to small aircraft spraying ground against disease. Ground shot aircraft spraying. Man in protective mask fumigating home with Diazamon. HAS white spray rising from car park.
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Access No. 126880 | 2 mins 49 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Man at back of truck and zoom to others fixing telegraph cables after Cyclone Tracy. Truck tipping branches into tip. Chainsaw cutting branches, bulldozer clearing. Two men welding up telegraph pole. Policeman talking to motorist with smashed windscreen. Interview with George Redmond, director housing and construction as he drives car, talks about repair of power to Darwin. (February 1975)
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Access No. 126881 | 1 min 14 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
POV car track past people by homes damaged by Cyclone Tracy. Water hydrant spraying water in street, woman bathing under one then gets back into truck. George Redmond, director housing and construction talking about water supply as he drives car. Pan down machinery to man saying they are doing the best job they can. (February 1975)
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Access No. 126882 | 45 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Navy helicopter flying over rooftops of Darwin after Cyclone Tracy, POV moving vehicle, helicopter carrying object. Man directing helicopter on ground, CU blades turning, helicopter hovering close to ground and lifting object around Travelodge? Brief shots pilot and crew, helicopter working near coast. Aboard naval ship, POV out to helicopter landing on deck. (28 January 1975)
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Access No. 126883 | 1 min 57 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
HAS road and houses damaged by Cyclone Tracy. Workman saying the idea is to clean up and get people back in. VS Team of men hammering new corrugated iron roof. George Redmond, director housing and construction as he drives car talking about engineering services and laying of roofs going to schedule. (1 February 1975)
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Access No. 126884 | 1 min 20 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Aerial houses devastated by Cyclone Tracy and some with new roofs, shadow of helicopter. Aerial more housing. Flock of homing pigeons pan around badly damaged homes. Graffiti on wall ÒHome Sweet Home. there's no place like home. ÓYahooÓ POV car track past ruined homes, one has Italian flag flying. Pan across scattered household possessions and debris, flag for Oranjeboob Bier. (February 1975)
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Access No. 126885 | 1 min 54 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
VS Buildings with handwritten signs ÒOccupiedÓ , street numbers, ÒLooters will be forgivenÓ following Cyclone Tracy. Truck with trailer carrying caravans. Boys on bicycles amongst devastated housing zoom out to show area. VS men talking at community action group voicing their concerns and needs. (February 1975)
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Access No. 126886 | 4 mins 54 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Montage of shots showing life in Darwin following Cyclone Tracy. Statue Stuart Memorial? pan down to RAAF brass band playing. Track along street POV car showing shops including some in need of repair. Family along street carrying suitcases. Elderly man playing lawn bowls. Young men sitting, Aboriginal woman walking along street, young women by swimming pool, pedestrians in street, man with dog, bowls, baby in stroller. (February 1975)
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Access No. 126887 | 1 min 2 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Continuation of montage of shots showing life in Darwin following Cyclone Tracy: jockey mounting race horse at Fannie Bay Races, Mr Frosty ice cream van, HAS horse race, pedestrians in street, lawn bowls at Arafura Bowls Club, child sitting, aboriginal woman with dog, Asian child. Aerial damaged buildings. RAAF brass band playing. (February 1975)
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Access No. 126888 | 48 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Fallen street lamp on side of road after Cyclone Tracy, man Albert Talbot selling goods on other side. Interview with man saying strange set up, like a big dream, other shop owners had shops wrecked, thinks that Darwin has had it. Air controller with batons at airport guiding in Ansett aircraft. Caravan lifted off ship Slevih, steps put up next to plane, people arriving at airport, women and children. (February 1975)
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Access No. 126889 | 2 mins 11 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
HAS Truck pulling caravan past debris and rubble into caravan park after Cyclone Tracy. Emergency Services Committee meeting chaired by director Ray McHenry. McDougall family in remains of house, laying corrugated iron roof and walls, cutting hair of small boy, outdoors. Another couple, Gordon and Janice Hender (with eye patch) eating at hostel with other, talking about living in hostel temporarily during wet season. Pan around accommodation. (7 February 1975)
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Access No. 126890 | 3 mins 17 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Recently married couple Mike and Robyn Hunt talking to camera about how they decided to get married quickly after Cyclone Tracy. VS couple cooking barbecue on outdoor fire, eating with other people. Couple talk to camera about how they have their name on housing list but expect priority to be given to couples with children and don't expect to get own home for 6-9 months. (February 1975)
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Access No. 126891 | 1 min 30 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Aerial over ruins of Darwin after Cyclone Tracy, damaged homes and buildings. Minister speaking at United Church of North Australia Memorial Service. Exterior modern church. Inside, naval hats on pew, track along congregation as Last Post is played, CU's people's faces including young woman crying into handkerchief, CU RAAF trumpeter. (February 1975)
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Access No. 126893 | 1 min 58 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Family sitting in skeleton of house damaged in Cyclone Tracy, ground is wet. Pan along other damaged homes, damaged car, man by Mini Moke, trucks and men working on house, bulldozer, tangled wreckage, zoom into small blonde haired boy Russell McDougall picking up music box from wreckage and listening to it. (February 1975)
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Access No. 126894 | 1 min 41 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
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