FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

Flock of sheep running into pens or fenced yard. Sheep dog rounding up sheep and keeping them under control in the yard. Post and rail fencing. Sheep through gates are separated into lambs and ewes for shearing. MS of farmer. Old open flat topped truck arrives with farm hands or shearers and cook on board for annual shearing. Unloading suitcases. Shearers living quarters with mattress and chest of drawers in tin shed. Shearer tests softness of bed. Quicktime clip available.

Union representative at the shearing shed running a ballot for election of representatives on the shearing board. Pulling names out of a hat. Shearers doing domestic chores - washing clothes. Man carving an animal shapes out of wood, using a file. Men checking shearing equipment, oil can, and hanging up their metal combs in leather pouch. Man tying up shoes. Quicktime clip available.

Men preparing equipment for shearing, turning fly wheel on generator. Looking along row of wheels spinning on top of shearing shed equipment, ringing cow bell. Men begin shearing and compete to be ringer of the shed - the one with the best daily tally of shorn sheep. Good sheep shearing shots using mechanical combs. Quicktime clip available.

Shearing shed. Wool Rollers having rest break, smoking cigarettes, as they wait for the first fleece to come off the sheep. They pick fleece off floor and toss it onto table. Shows processes in sorting fleece. Wool Classer classifies the fleece into different quality grades. Wool Presser squeezes wool into bales. Stencils grade onto bale - AAA or BBB Quicktime clip available.

Shearing Shed kitchen. Woman cooks with old brick wood fuel stove, enamel pots . Baking scones and delivering them to the shearing shed with pots of tea. Quicktime clip available.

Young trainee shearers learning on partly shorn sheep. CU on combs. Man sharpening shearing combs on a grinding wheel. Shearers sitting on bales of wool taking tea break, smoko. Quicktime clip available.

Pan across small pens of shorn sheep, the last one man opens gate and sheep run out. MS man watching sheep and CU of writing with biro pen in book. Shearers sitting on floor talking and smoking CU on man rolling cigarette and licking paper ends. CU on shearer shearing sheep. CU on men's faces, some old and craggy. Men loading bales of wool onto conveyor belt to truck. Truck leaves loaded with bales. Quicktime clip available.