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Living Way Out

Welcome to life in a remote Òcompany townÓ.
Series : Habitat | Episode : 1 | Year : 1976 | Total Duration : 25 Minutes | Producer : Malcolm Otton
Director : Philip Robertson |
Explosion in open cut iron mine, VS men going out to work in bus, bus towards camera through heat haze. Aerial bus travelling through remote outback area. Opening titles.
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Access No. 124116 | 1 min 11 secs | 1970s | Shay Gap, Pilbara, WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Light aircraft taxiing after landing on air strip in outback. Man walking with wife and small children. VS family in travelling in truck. Interview Sarah Clayton, social planner, talking about families being unable to anticipate the consequences of living in remote location. Young woman with small child walking and talking to neighbour. Clayton talking about stressful situation for miners' wives.
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Access No. 124374 | 1 min 22 secs | 1970s | Shay Gap, Pilbara, WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
VS including CU's earth moving machinery at open cut iron ore mine. Giant trucks. CU driver talking about working long hours. Interview with Terry Brearley, government scientist, (as he drives car) talking about mining settlements built as though city suburbia. HAS car down street of rows of houses in remote outback town, red rooftops. Aerials remote settlement.
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Access No. 124375 | 2 mins 28 secs | 1970s | Shay Gap, Pilbara, WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview Lawrence Howroyd, designer of Shay Gap, talking about need to remove outback horizons and create intimacy in environment. VS women and children in settlement including children playing outdoors. HAS settlement.
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Access No. 124376 | 1 min 19 secs | 1970s | Shay Gap, Pilbara, WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Digger scooping earth at open cut iron ore mine. Interview Ros Jones, resident of Shay Gap, talking about how she hated it for 2 years. VS children in classroom including paintings on wall. Children reading aloud their stories about living in Shay Gap. CU's faces and girls talking.
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Access No. 124377 | 1 min 59 secs | 1970s | Shay Gap, Pilbara, WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
VS Earth moving equipment at open cut iron ore mine. CU Ros Jones, resident of Shay Gap, talking about community making a home, not the design of the houses. VS Sky diving and parachuting down into outback. Woman with pram, VS families walking amongst houses. Men and women playing golf and baseball in outback setting. Women and children chatting.
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Access No. 124378 | 2 mins 35 secs | 1970s | Shay Gap, Pilbara, WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Giant truck in open cut iron ore mine, over hill and towards camera, dust. Interview Peter Houghton, township manager, talking about administration of Shay Gap. Women shopping for clothes and groceries. Men in shop buying groceries, child drinking milkshake. People at swimming pool. Interview teenage boy saying very little opportunity in Shay Gap. VS People chatting at swimming pool. Man talking about heat.
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Access No. 124379 | 2 mins 27 secs | 1970s | Shay Gap, Pilbara, WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Aerial Shay Gap settlement. Two bearded men at pub talking about the life of a single man in a mining town, drinking and gambling and boredom. Interview with American/Canadian school teacher, Joanne Cherneski, talking about constant battle to get through boredom of week.
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Access No. 124380 | 1 min 43 secs | 1970s | Shay Gap, Pilbara, WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Earth tipped from giant truck, moved on conveyor belt. Interview Helen Clayton, social planner, talking about problems in Pilbara concerning selection of miners. Silhouette people gathered in backyard. HAS Shay Gap at night. Dance at local club, laughing and drinking. Night shots trucks working at mine. Interview Peter Houghton, township manager, comparing life of single miner with life in military. Single men in dining room.
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Access No. 124381 | 2 mins 38 secs | 1970s | Shay Gap, Pilbara, WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Female residents talking about living in company town. Interview Helen Clayton, social planner, saying that mining towns should be disassociated from the mining companies and that a community should run itself. VS people gathered at trade union meeting discussing conditions for single men in Shay Gap. Clayton talking about discrimination. VS children painting. Night shot mine, diggers at work at iron ore mine.
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Access No. 124382 | 3 mins 24 secs | 1970s | Shay Gap, WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
People gathered outdoors. HAS backyard party. HAS trucks and rail way in outback. Aerial Shay Gap area. CU outback rocks.
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Access No. 124383 | 2 mins | 1970s | Shay Gap, WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
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