Know Your Children

LS city street with industrial buildings in BG, smoking chimneys, smoke stacks. Two boys with bare feet running along street and almost colliding with man in suit and carrying a briefcase. Children playing in street of terrace houses. Car parked in street. Good shot of children playing in backyard. Good poverty street scene. Small houses, people salvaging from a demolition, building site. Good collapsing walls. Quicktime clip available.

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Bricklayers working on building site of new inner city housing. Good shot of poor housing estate, poverty, slums. Washing lines. Children in laneway at back of houses. Quicktime clip available.

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LS cityscape, city street with busy traffic including double decker bus. Policeman in white pith helmet directing traffic and horse and cart on road. Shop front with ÒJeanettesÓ sign on window. Pedestrians on street. Quicktime clip available.

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High angle WS of a tightly packed crowd at the horse races. People boarding tram, woman with baby in arms and conductor. Building in BG with Sargents Pies sign. Mother with two children, one in her arms walking into a building. Mother feeding baby in a high chair and another helping small girl put on her shoes. Quicktime clip available.

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MS blonde girl with plaits and ribbons sitting at table doing jigsaw puzzle. Other children at small table playing with tea set. MS of young children reading and painting at an easel. Children playing dress up and approaching a counter in a shop. Man watering front garden or lawn in suburban house, woman and child nearby. Quicktime clip available.

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Good LS inner city street with terrace houses. Cars along street. Boy walks along street and into front door of house. Dramatisation of unhappy household with woman ironing and family arguing. Children playing on the streets and in playground. Washing hanging on verandah of terrace house. Boys drawing on paling fence with chalk. Quicktime clip available.

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Boys smoking cigarettes. MS of boy with cigarette lighter. Baby in cane pram outside shop. Teenage boy walks up street toward shot and turns to go in door. MS on baby playing in pram. Dramatisation of boy stealing handbag from baby's pram, being apprehended by shopkeeper . Dramatised court appearance before a magistrate in juvenile court and sentencing of boy to an institution. Quicktime clip available.

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Man in suit and hat walking along footpath beside a railway line with a high brick embankment. Three young boys playing in a open car. Dramatisation of truancy problems. Government official, Truant officer, and boy in house with boy's mother discussing his absence from school. MS of teacher talking about the boy. Three adults in school classroom in discussion. Good classroom scene with male teacher and children putting hands in air. CU on textbook and writing in book. Interesting commentary referring to a ÒdullardÓ Quicktime clip available.

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Classroom of older school girls in a weaving class. Teacher helping girls with the loom. Boys and girls painting. Medical checks and inspections. Doctor checking young school boys chests with stethoscope. Group of schoolchildren run out of classroom to two boys handing out lunches in playground. Children sitting in playground eating lunch. Quicktime clip available.

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LS of row of shops at night and two women walking along footpath and stopping to look at shops, window shopping. They enter ÒThe OceanicÓ milk bar and are approached at the bar by two men. Quicktime clip available.

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Suburban lounge room. Conservative man and woman sitting in lounge opposite another man in single lounge, talking. Discussion about the whereabouts of their daughter and attending a child guidance clinic. Man polishing metal rimmed glasses. Scenes of child psychologist testing a child and meeting with parents. Quicktime clip available.

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Teenage boys playing indoor table tennis in a club. Being watched by boys gathered in BG. Group of boys doing woodwork, boxing and gymnastics. Young audience sitting and listening to gramophone. Quicktime clip available.

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Group of young boys with backpacks walking along inner city street past backyards of terrace houses, could be school boys. In countryside, boys walking towards a shed - bushwalk or trek by the sea. MS of two boys resting and eating in the bush. Group of boys and girls washing up in outdoor camp. Playing volleyball type game with ring or quoit and Hawkesbury River in BG. Small inboard motor boat with half cabin, people on board. Boat arrives at wharf to waiting group. Quicktime clip available.

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Two men and woman in suburban lounge room talking. CU on jukebox with vinyl record spinning on turntable in milk bar and couples sitting in booths drinking milkshakes from metal canisters. Two couples at shooting gallery at an amusement park and playing laughing clowns, hoopla and riding merry-go-round. Segment about young girls disobeying parents and spending time with boys instead of being at the pictures. Quicktime clip available.

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Lone woman walking along street at night. Domestic scene in suburban lounge room, two men and two women talking about deceiving parents. MS of man drinking from whisky flask and two couple sharing alcohol. LS of two couple walking away from camera arms around each other. Man to camera about happy children and happy homes Quicktime clip available.

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