FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

Title Details

Saturday

A shearer, his wife and six children leave their farmhouse at daybreak for the week's big event - a Saturday visit to the nearest town.
Year : 1979 | Total Duration : 22 Minutes | Producer : Suzanne Baker
Director : Dean Semler |
Small farmhouse in outback. Red earth driveway. Old caravan parked under tree in front of house. Young boy comes through wire screen door of house, followed by group of young boys. Kerrigundi Homestead. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 79332 | 24 secs | 1970s | Lake Cargelligo, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU on door of old Bega fuel stove oven with roast meat cooking inside. Woman in apron, mother, at farmhouse kitchen table, sewing, boys enter kitchen hungry and looking for food. Kerrigundi Homestead. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 79335 | 34 secs | 1970s | Lake Cargelligo, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
White utility, ute, through gates of farm, cattle dog in back, truck pulls up outside old farmhouse with water tank. Mother in kitchen directing children about chores to be done. MS young boy drinking glass of milk. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 79340 | 37 secs | 1970s | Lake Cargelligo, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Night shot, country farmhouse at night, ute or utility truck parked outside, lights on in house, young boy collecting wood from wood pile and taking it into house while another young boy chops wood. Kerrigundi Homestead. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 79342 | 12 secs | 1970s | Lake Cargelligo, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Orange , yellow sun on horizon at sunrise as it lights up main street of town, titles, LS of main street in country town, subtitle ÒPopulation 1571Ó Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 79343 | 19 secs | 1970s | Lake Cargelligo, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
White utility truck , ute, parked outside old farmhouse in early morning light. Family leaving house through fly screen door, children jump into back of truck, woman chains dog up, LS utility car driving along red earth road with people standing in back tray of car, LS of kangaroo bounding along Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 79345 | 1 min 41 secs | 1970s | Lake Cargelligo, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
LS main street Lake Cargelligo, NSW. Montage of shots of opening shops at the start of a day. Two people in flared trousers are sweeping footpath in front of shops. Cars angle parked at curb. MS woman cleaning shop window. Sign for Charity Dance in window. Woman putting up beaded curtain in doorway as a fly screen. Man placing lolly, bubble gum stand outside shop, bakers delivering bread, vegetable in back of truck, high angle WS of white utility truck arriving in town Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 79357 | 59 secs | 1970s | Lake Cargelligo, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Track of four young boys running along footpath in country town. Men inside barber shop, man having haircut, rifles displayed on walls, woman sitting under hair dryer and reading a magazine, other women having hair washed at basins, boys run into hairdressing salon to ask mother for money, she tells them to ask their father. Boys run to father for money in a general store where he is having his haircut in a barber section at the back of the store. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 79368 | 1 min 38 secs | 1970s | Lake Cargelligo, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS of shop in country town - Lake Cargelligo, New South Wales. ÒExcelsior CafeÓ. Man serving ice creams in double cones to children. WS of country pub, hotel. MS of man walking along street and smoking. Tooheys Draught beer sign painted on window of hotel. Mother and children buying vegetables from fruit stall. Mother has beehive, bouffant hairstyle. Man joking with children and encouraging them to punch his large stomach. Social interaction in main street of country town Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 79381 | 1 min 45 secs | 1970s | Lake Cargelligo, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
LS down main street country town Lake Cargelligo. Cars angle parked at curb outside hotel. Sign suspended from footpath awning. ÒPublic Bar - Bottle Dept.Ó Scenes inside hotel, pub, people eating at outdoors tables and drinking and smoking at the bar. Barbeque cooking. Women seated at tables in the Ladies Lounge drinking beer. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 79394 | 37 secs | 1970s | Lake Cargelligo, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
VS sailing on the lake, speed boats on lake , children swimming, man with carton beer under his arm walking along main street, Australian Rules football match, coach giving team talk at half time, injured player helped off field Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 79395 | 2 mins 14 secs | 1970s | Lake Cargelligo, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
LS down main street country town Lake Cargelligo, pan across to shop of corner of intersection. Man spinning chocolate wheel and money being exchanged for purchase of tickets in Òchook raffleÓ. Scruffy men sitting on steps of hotel watching as man lassoes another man pulls him over without spilling his beer. Drinking games. Man singing. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 79411 | 50 secs | 1970s | Lake Cargelligo, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
LS main street of country town, Lake Cargelligo, as night falls, evening light. Young boys sitting in cafe booth, sauce bottles on table. Man cooking T- Bone steak on grill, television playing in cafe, boys eating steaks and hot chips and drinking milkshake. News reader on television. Children lining up to pay entry into cinema. Night shot of facade of picture theatre. Inside theatre and children disruptive and climbing over seats, blowing bubble gum. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 79420 | 1 min 50 secs | 1970s | Lake Cargelligo, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Projectionist spooling film onto projector and adjusting equipment in cinema Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 79440 | 25 secs | 1970s | Lake Cargelligo, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Man placing sign in foyer of community hall in country town. ÒNext Dance - quickstepÓ. Old man playing piano. Good shots of country dance to tune of Ò Sweet Georgia BrownÓ. Good shots of band members, ÒMelody MakersÓ. Children at drink refrigerator, people leaving hall. Interior general store selling drinks and lollies, exterior cinema. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 79443 | 2 mins 57 secs | 1970s | Lake Cargelligo, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Night shot interior shop of country town. Shelves of food on right of frame, cooking vats and grill left of frame. Man walks away from camera and climbs up to turn TV off. Closing up shop, lights out. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 79454 | 18 secs | 1970s | Lake Cargelligo, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Young girls running and sliding on dance floor in hall of country town. People socialising, talking, some drinking tea, some drinking beer, children sliding along floor, Melody Makers band start playing and people on dance floor. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 79457 | 1 min 9 secs | 1970s | Lake Cargelligo, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Man behind bar of country hotel. He is drinking beer and laughing. The wall behind has rows of cigarettes and bottles of drink. Television set. People dancing at country dance in community hall. Leaving dance hall, cars leaving town, going home Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 79472 | 2 mins 12 secs | 1970s | Lake Cargelligo, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |