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Men and Mobs

The story of the men and sheep that have long supported Australia's economy.
Year : 1947 | Total Duration : 16 Minutes | Producer : John Heyer
Director : John Heyer |
Montage of Australian landscapes. Pans of snow country, snow capped mountain range, snow gum trees. Pan of rural landscape of river, trees, mountain range. Pan of rocky cliffs with Aboriginal rock art. Pan of coastal shots. VS waves rolling into shore, crashing onto rocks and high shot over waves breaking over rocks. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 12718 | 1 min 44 secs | 1940s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
13 shots of sketches of early pioneer's ships and the transportation of sheep to Australia. CU page with ink writing of stock report, 1788. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 12726 | 1 min 45 secs | 1940s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Hands unrolling brown paper parcel to reveal wool (cleaned but not spun). Another pair of hands with long frilly lace cuffs pulls examines wool clip. Unfolding map of Port Jackson. CU of map. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 12727 | 48 secs | 1940s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
City streets with red double decker buses, trams, trucks,traffic and pedestrians. Sign Grazcos House. Signs for wool brokers and unions - Wool Stock with Brisbane addresses. Australian Wool Brokers and Produce Co. The Pastoral Review. Wool and Basil Workers' Union. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 12730 | 18 secs | 1940s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Department of Commerce and Agriculture. Older man in dark suit and tie with female customer filling pipe and talking about Australia being largest wool producing country in the world. Sign Wool Sale room on exterior of building. VS of men bidding at wool auction. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 12739 | 30 secs | 1940s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Radio announcer in front of ABC microphone announces beef and lamb export figures. Sheep in small pens at sale yard. Number of men in BG milling around. Good CUs of farmers' faces. CU of sheep. Brown sheep dog running over sheeps' backs in sale yard. Lots of auction activity and bidding at sale yard. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 12743 | 1 min 2 secs | 1940s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Export cargo, meat and bales of wool, CUs being loaded onto boat in rope hoists at wharves. CUs stencilled locations show exports are going to New York, London, France, Hamburg. CU on flock of sheep running. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 12758 | 35 secs | 1940s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS of flock on green grass and sheep dog round them up with wide expanse of blue sky. Drover on horseback rounding up sheep with dogs to assist. Flock in gully and at stream drinking. Good WS of dogs and sheep on lush green pastures. Good shots of flock running away from camera - screen full of sheep. Sign Gunnong Jugrawah & Bundarbo Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 12777 | 1 min 6 secs | 1940s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Men helping sheep through gate in pens. Good shots of dogs rounding up sheep. Farmer rolling a cigarette. Dogs jumping over fences in sheep pens, farmers organising sheep into pens. Good CU of dogs yapping a sheeps legs and high angle shot of sheep herded into pen. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 12792 | 58 secs | 1940s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
LS of shearing shed with line of shearers at work. Sunlight filtering through gaps in wall. CU on shearers and wool rollers taking fleece and tossing it onto classing table. Shows processes of shearing and wool grading, pressing into bales and men operating machinery to push wool into bales. Good shots. Bales on trolley to be loaded on trucks. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 12819 | 1 min 37 secs | 1940s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Shorn sheep pushed through ramps to pens then released back into paddocks. Shots of sheep jumping. CUs dog. Man nailing sign onto tree. ÒTo-night see films on wool, your problems, developmentsÓ. Man in white coat with film projector and white screen which he attaches to a tree in rural background. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 12834 | 47 secs | 1940s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Projectionist in white coat with film projector and white screen which he attaches to a tree in rural background. WS of cloudy sunset sky. Stage coach, sheep in BG and two men at campfire unsaddling horses, boiling billy, tea, stockman on horse in silhouette. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 12855 | 1 min 10 secs | 1940s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
People seated for outdoor showing of film called Science Backs the Wool Grower by the Australian Wool Board. Vs projectionist Film title - Science Backs the Wool Grower by the Australian Wool Board. Good research laboratory shots - scientists in white coats doing tests on wool in lots of glass beakers. Sign Òtextile mills use more woolÓ. Man loading armfuls of wool fleece into machinery, VS of woollen mills looms, spinning, weaving. CU wool on huge bobbinsCUs sheep running and leaping past camera left to right. Sheep in gully with drovers. VS drovers on horseback. WS sheep over hills. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 138338 | 3 mins 1 sec | 1940s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
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