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Sheep's Back

Looks at the history of Australia's wool industry.
Series : Australian Experience, The | Year : 1994 | Total Duration : 55 Minutes | Producer : Susan Ardill
Director : Peter Butt |
Aerial over misty rural land. Mountains in background. Aerial over pasture land. Over rise in ground toward large flock of sheep turning and wheeling. Low mist hanging in background. Low aerial over large flock of sheep as they run across pastureland. Good rural and sheep shots.
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Access No. 94852 | 35 secs | 1990s | NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Bales of wool in loading sling being lifted onto ship docked at wharf. Bales of wool on trucks beside ship.
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Access No. 94855 | 6 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | Colour |
Bales of wool being unloaded truck onto wharf by two men. CU on bales with stamps of locations such as France, London on them.
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Access No. 94857 | 8 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | Colour |
Large flock of sheep up grassy slope. Large rocks in foreground. Stockman, drover on horseback cracking whip. CU of flock sheep running and then drinking at eroded waterhole
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Access No. 94859 | 10 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | Colour |
City street scene. Tram past camera. Busy city intersection. Pedestrians crossing street, traffic and tram, Flinders Street Station
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Access No. 94863 | 9 secs | 1940s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Two women, mothers, and two children in kitchen listening to Blue Hills on the radio. Family sitting in lounge room listening to radio
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Access No. 94866 | 7 secs | 1950s | © NFSA | Colour |
Man herding three large merino sheep across bridge, then inspecting wool on sheep's back by pulling wool apart with his hands, LS of line up of sheep being judged at an Agricultural Show, shot of a large merino with winner's ribbons across its back. CU of sheep's face.
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Access No. 94868 | 13 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | B&W |
Interview - Don Aitkin, political scientist
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Access No. 94873 | 10 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Two men washing face of sheep prior to judging.
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Access No. 94874 | 10 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | B&W |
CU of the Big Merino . WS of the Big Merino building, sculpture of a sheep
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Access No. 94875 | 9 secs | 1990s | Goulburn, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Pan along piles of bales of wool stacked up, stock piles of unsold wool
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Access No. 94876 | 12 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Prime Minister Paul Keating speaking about Australia being more than a quarry or a farm but and that it could be in the front rank of trading nations. Speech at ALP (Australian Labor Party) political party launch 1993
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Access No. 94877 | 10 secs | 1990s | © ABC | Colour |
John Thornhill, Theologian and Writer talks about what rural presence really means to the nation.
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Access No. 94878 | 19 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Interviews Andrew Stoeckel , economist and Fran Rowe, rural counsellor
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Access No. 94879 | 30 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Good aerial over large flock of sheep on green pastures.
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Access No. 94882 | 6 secs | 1990s | NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
POV ground as a sheep jumps over camera. Blue sky with puffy white clouds in background.
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Access No. 94883 | 5 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Slow motion track along a Sydney road under bridge with high rise building in background, including Centrepoint Tower. Traffic past camera at intersection. Mojo advertising building in background - Military Road, Cremorne
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Access No. 94884 | 22 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Various shots. Gawen Rudder - Director Corporate Communication - Mojo Australia seated at table with group of people. Intercut with television commercials . Various CUs male and female faces. CU Sean Cummins - National Creative Director. Lynette Chand - Copywriter. Marc Law - Art Director. Paul Knight - Executive Creative Director.
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Access No. 94886 | 1 min 40 secs | 1990s | Cremorne, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Looking up at a glass high rise building POV a passing car. ÒGowings' building . LS George Street. Light traffic. Queen Victoria Building.
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Access No. 94887 | 11 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage - travel down George Street Sydney near Martin Place in 1910's. Busy with pedestrians, horse drawn carts and trams. Tram towards camera. then away from camera
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Access No. 94890 | 29 secs | 1910s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Archival footage of horses legs as they cross shallow water. 2 shots men on horse back walking across rural land. Looking across field to hay stacks.
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Access No. 94891 | 15 secs | 1940s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Interview - John Thornhill, Theologian and Writer talks about the land in Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson's writings
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Access No. 94894 | 9 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
CU of axe chopping into tree trunk. Man in wide brim hat and wearing bracers chopping down tree. Shrivelled grain crop. Skeleton of dead livestock. Man looking toward left of frame. He has a serious expression on his face.
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Access No. 94895 | 18 secs | 1940s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Interview, Frank Weston - Farmer of Overflow Sheep Station in Central NSW
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Access No. 94901 | 45 secs | 1990s | Bobadah, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage of men on horse back with flock of sheep.
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Access No. 94902 | 9 secs | 1940s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Interview - Frank Weston, farmer in shearing shed showing the equipment and sheds. Central NSW rural landscape.
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Access No. 94903 | 43 secs | 1990s | Bobadah, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage of man shearing sheep with mechanical, electric shearing clippers. VS of shearing shed at work. Men tossing wool onto table in shearing shed. Large flock of sheep down hill and into pen. Sheep jumping as they run into shed. Inspecting wool on sheep's back. Bales o f wool and wool classer looking at shorn wool.
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Access No. 94905 | 46 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
VS of a Wool Auction. Auctioneer assessing quality of wool. Buyers bidding for wool
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Access No. 94919 | 22 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
Large flock of sheep past camera right to left.
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Access No. 94922 | 9 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
Flock of sheep with men on horse back mustering.
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Access No. 94923 | 6 secs | 1940s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Interview with Frank Weston - Farmer of Overflow Sheep Station talks about isolation of farming
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Access No. 94924 | 9 secs | 1990s | Bobadah, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Section from the feature film The Squatters Daughter - man placing engagement ring on finger of young woman. Looking lovingly into each others eyes and talking.
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Access No. 94925 | 46 secs | 1930s | © National Film and Sound Archive | B&W |
Interview with Helen Irving - Historian about the family all working the farm and Frank Weston, farmer of Overflow Sheep Station about the conditions of farming
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Access No. 94926 | 29 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival - Flock of sheep along dusty road. Being led by man standing in horse and dray. Two men chopping down tree for sheep fodder during drought. Flock of sheep in background. Three shots starving, scrawny sheep feeding from leaves of chopped down tree during drought (1919).
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Access No. 94928 | 18 secs | 1910s | © National Film and Sound Archive | B&W |
Interview with Frank Weston - Farmer of Overflow Sheep Station about perseverance in hard times
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Access No. 94931 | 13 secs | 1990s | Bobadah, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Man on horse back pulling sheep from boggy ground.
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Access No. 94932 | 5 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
MS man on horseback riding right to left across camera wearing Akubra hat. Drover's camp site with tent and men drinking from enamel mugs
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Access No. 94933 | 11 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
Interview with John Thornhill, Theologian and Writer about Europeans migrating to Australia and the rural experience being one of survival
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Access No. 94936 | 39 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
CU of red rock, tilt up to show old farmhouse in background and old ruins of wooden farmhouse and farm buildings on Overflow Sheep Station
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Access No. 94937 | 20 secs | 1990s | Bobadah, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph - Bobadah School children. Still photograph - family portrait
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Access No. 94939 | 7 secs | 1900s | Bobadah, NSW, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Interior old farm house kitchen, walls of corrugated iron, old wood stove and wooden cupboard - good shot
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Access No. 94942 | 4 secs | 1990s | Bobadah, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph- family portrait
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Access No. 94943 | 4 secs | 1900s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Old car body laying in long grass of rural landscape rusting
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Access No. 94944 | 3 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph - Dad and car - Three men posing with T model Ford in 1920's
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Access No. 94945 | 11 secs | 1920s | Bobadah, NSW, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Interview with George Harley - Farmer of Bobadah talks about lack of transport on the farm
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Access No. 94946 | 7 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Donkeys pulling old car across water. Old truck crossing waterway in outback.
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Access No. 94947 | 8 secs | 1920s | © NFSA | B&W |
Shearers working. Tossing fleece on table and men checking fleece. Shot from inside building as man in silhouette wheels bale of wool out into sunshine. Man loading bale of wool onto back of truck. Large truck loaded with bales of wool away from camera. Looking across flat plain with steam train going left to right in distance against horizon.
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Access No. 94949 | 15 secs | 1940s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Engine of steam train past camera. CU on railway lines.
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Access No. 94955 | 4 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
Interview with Don Aitkin - Political Scientist about wool exports bringing income into Australia but the rural communities not realising any benefits of this revenue.
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Access No. 94957 | 9 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Meeting of local farmers at Shire Hall
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Access No. 94958 | 12 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
Interview with Don Aitkin - Political Scientist about country life and the workers.
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Access No. 94959 | 16 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Various shots of people entering Town Hall to vote at polling booth.
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Access No. 94960 | 21 secs | 1940s | © Cinesound Movietone Productions | B&W |
Interview with Don Aitkin - Political Scientist talks about the politics for the country people and the wool industry
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Access No. 94961 | 22 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Various shots parliament scene from Dad Rudd feature.
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Access No. 94962 | 22 secs | 1940s | © Cinesound Movietone Productions | B&W |
Film Title ÒFarmer Was A Fighting ManÓ.
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Access No. 94963 | 4 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
Various shots of soldiers marching and singing Waltzing Matilda. WWII
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Access No. 94964 | 19 secs | 1940s | © Filmworld | B&W |
Man piling wool fleece into cleansing machine. Various shots of factory spinning wool to make fibre. 2 shots of loom manufacturing material. Looking across lines of looms in weaving factory.
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Access No. 94965 | 13 secs | 1940s | © National Film and Sound Archive | B&W |
Interview with Cosmas Tsokhas - Economic Historian about the wool industry in post war period
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Access No. 94969 | 11 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Flock of sheep into shearing pen. Clouds of dust.
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Access No. 94970 | 3 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
Looking along shearing board at shearers working.
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Access No. 94971 | 3 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
Shearer looking down as he works.
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Access No. 94972 | 2 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
Interview w ith Cosmas Tsokhas - Economic Historian about Menzies and his handling of the export of wool
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Access No. 94974 | 5 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival. Soldiers on decks of ship waving. Soldiers lined along railing of deck of ship clasping hands and waving. 2 young men leaning out of port hole of ship shaking hands. WWII
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Access No. 94975 | 7 secs | 1940s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Archival. Prime Minister Robert Menzies speech about Australia supporting the winning of the war . WWII
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Access No. 94978 | 15 secs | 1940s | © Filmworld | B&W |
Archival. Rows of soldiers on parade. Present arms. WWII
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Access No. 94979 | 3 secs | 1940s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Archival. Prime Minister Robert Menzies on podium at troop review. Possibly General Blamey? with him. Prime Minister Robert Menzies walking along deck of ship accompanied by Officer.
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Access No. 94980 | 6 secs | 1940s | © Filmworld | B&W |
Archival. Prime Minister Robert Menzies on street taking photograph.
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Access No. 94982 | 2 secs | 1940s | UK | © Filmworld | B&W |
Interview with Cosmas Tsokhas - Economic Historian talks about an aggressive and independent policy of marketing wool in the Menzies era
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Access No. 94983 | 5 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
2 shots line of soldiers walking toward camera along country road singing Waltzing Matilda. WWII
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Access No. 94984 | 7 secs | 1940s | © Filmworld | B&W |
Archival. Shot from behind spectators gathered on footpath as soldiers march down city street. Looking down on soldiers marching along city street. Soldiers embarking on troop ship. WWII
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Access No. 94985 | 1 sec | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
Archival. Looking up at man working on roof building house. Man taking piece of board into house during building. Sign ÒSoldier Settlement Commission - Vic. Yarroweyah EstateÓ
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Access No. 94990 | 10 secs | 1940s | Vic, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Archival. Man on horseback mustering flock of sheep . Man talking to small boy, mother weeding garden as small child sits in stroller watching. Outside weather board house. Man holding small child. Father is wearing hat and glasses.
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Access No. 94993 | 10 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
Archival. Looking up at dead branches of tree with glaring sun behind.
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Access No. 94996 | 1 sec | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
Archival. Looking down at dry earth with furrows of erosion. Dead tree stump on dry earth.
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Access No. 94997 | 5 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
Archival. Teams of horses pulling ploughs down slope. Team of horses past camera in foreground. Team of horses ploughing.
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Access No. 94999 | 10 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
Interview with Don Aitkin - Political Scientist about taxation incentives introduced by Menzies for investment in farms
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Access No. 95001 | 10 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival. Sydney Harbour Bridge. Cargo ship passing under.
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Access No. 95002 | 2 secs | 1950s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival. High angle shot of traffic and trains crossing Sydney Harbour Bridge. Looking down on pedestrians crossing city intersection. Double decker bus passes in front of camera.
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Access No. 95003 | 14 secs | 1950s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival. Auctioneer dressed in suit and tie and wearing hat calling a stock auction. Two shots of farmers faces as they bid. Looking across pens of sheep. Men milling around. Sheep together in pen.
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Access No. 95007 | 16 secs | 1950s | © NFSA | Colour |
Sheep running across green field dotted with white flowers. Followed by black and white sheep dogs. Man on horse back.
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Access No. 95012 | 7 secs | 1950s | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview with Don Aitkin - Political Scientist about the demand for wool for uniforms needed for the Korean War
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Access No. 95014 | 4 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival. CU on front of harvester heading wheat crop. Three harvesters in wheat field. Row of harvesters at work. Woman and children on front verandah of fibro suburban house.
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Access No. 95015 | 15 secs | 1950s | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival. Woman looking down as prepares food in kitchen. Car along country road. MS of driver and main street of country town
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Access No. 95020 | 10 secs | 1950s | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival. Group of high school girls in playground playing basket ball or netball
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Access No. 95025 | 5 secs | 1950s | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival. Street of country town. Truck toward camera. Cars, EH Holdens, Volkswagen, angle parked at kerb.
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Access No. 95027 | 3 secs | 1950s | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival. Bales of wool in sling being loaded onto ship. 2 trucks loaded with bales of wool parked beside ship moored at wharf.
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Access No. 95028 | 5 secs | 1950s | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival. Aerial over city buildings.
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Access No. 95030 | 10 secs | 1950s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival. Section of carding machine? in wool processing plant. Man working threading loom. Woman working standing behind line of spools of wool thread . Weaving loom.
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Access No. 95032 | 10 secs | 1950s | © Australian Wool Board | Colour |
Archival. Film Title ÒFashion Spotlight on WoolÓ. Various shots of wool garments in fashion parade.
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Access No. 95037 | 19 secs | 1950s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival. Section of a Lux television commercial. Woman hand washing in bathroom hand basin. Packet of ÒLuxÓ sitting on back of basin.(1946)
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Access No. 95039 | 3 secs | 1940s | © Filmworld / Lever & Kitchen | Colour |
Archival. Ferry pulling into wharf crowded with people. People boarding ferry
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Access No. 95040 | 5 secs | 1950s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival. Main street of country town. Shopper on street, woman with basket and holding child's hand. Three men leaning on car and talking. Good MS of man with hat,coat & tie
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Access No. 95042 | 14 secs | 1950s | Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview with David Pockley - Woolgrower about the wealth of the wool industry in post war Australia
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Access No. 95047 | 8 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Flock of sheep grazing on green grass paddock
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Access No. 95048 | 8 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival. Policeman directing traffic. Good shot of pedestrians toward camera cross road of city street. Man working as dogman standing on rim of large cement bucket as it is lowered from building construction site. CU of woman's face and children on slippery dip in playground. Man on construction site hammering scaffolding with a mallet. Couple in park and women with shopping trolleys at supermarket check out
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Access No. 95051 | 24 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival. Range of cold meat in delicatessen display case. Good shot of woman serving customer over delicatessen counter.
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Access No. 95061 | 4 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview, Don Aitkin - Political Scientist about impact of immigration to Australia
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Access No. 95063 | 6 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival. Looking across surf beach with two surf board riders.
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Access No. 95064 | 4 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival. Man and woman walking from water up beach toward group of people gathered together having picnic on sand. MS of couple, man eating chicken leg. WS of picnic food.
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Access No. 95065 | 14 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview David Pockley - Woolgrower - about the standard of living in the 50's being influenced by the wool industry
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Access No. 95069 | 12 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Various shots from decimal currency conversion advertisement, 14 February, 1966
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Access No. 95070 | 26 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | Colour |
Mining explosion. Earth moving equipment with large bucket picking up ore. High angle WS of an ore train in outback
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Access No. 95071 | 15 secs | 1980s | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival. Sheep running past camera.
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Access No. 95074 | 2 secs | 1950s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Sheep in paddock. Lots of dust. Shed in background. Sheep in pens outside shearing shed.
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Access No. 95075 | 3 secs | 1950s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Shearer shearing sheep. Man picking up fleece from shearing shed floor.
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Access No. 95077 | 3 secs | 1950s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Looking down on long room with opened bales of wool lined up. Men walking among rows looking at fleece and checking quality. Establishment of wool cooperative.
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Access No. 95079 | 18 secs | 1950s | © ABC Footage Sales | B&W |
Interviews Andrew Stoeckel - Economist talks about rural industries setting up cooperatives and Malcolm Bartholomaeus - Farmer, Economist also talking about cooperatives
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Access No. 95085 | 26 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
POV ground as sheep jump over camera. Blue sky and puffy white clouds.
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Access No. 95087 | 3 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Various shots of demonstrations. ÒSay No to Nixon bannerÓ, Aboriginal tent embassy protest in front of old Parliament House. Gough Whitlam in front of Parliament House. Banner ÒWhitlam, the new farm pestÓ - farmers protest
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Access No. 95088 | 53 secs | 1970s | © ABC | B&W |
Interview, Don Aitkin - Political Scientist - the part played by education on children leaving the farm
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Access No. 95089 | 12 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Looking through branches of dead tree to sheep in green field. Zoom out to show old ruined house. Old wooden fence around grave on property.
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Access No. 95090 | 15 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
Interview, Don Aitkin - Political Scientist
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Access No. 95093 | 4 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
Good CU shot of windmill slowly turning. Ruins of old farmhouse. Corrugated iron water tank. Body of car dumped in long grass. Good deserted rural shots showing neglected run down farm
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Access No. 95094 | 17 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
Interview George Harley - Farmer talks about the decline of the farm
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Access No. 95099 | 9 secs | 1990s | Bobadah, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Various shots of stock exchange in 1980's in slow motion.
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Access No. 95102 | 13 secs | 1980s | © NFSA | Colour |
Low angle shots at high rise buildings against blue sky in slow motion.
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Access No. 95103 | 10 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview Andrew Stoeckel , economist, about the services sector in the Australian economy. Don Aitkin - Political Scientist about the economy and preparing for the 21st century
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Access No. 95104 | 12 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Looking up at high rise building against blue sky.
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Access No. 95106 | 4 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Windmill blades turning in slow motion.
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Access No. 95107 | 2 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
LS pull back from bales of wool stacked in large warehouse. Stock piles of wool
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Access No. 95108 | 1 min 13 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
VS of auction of farm property on Bobadah farm. Large crowds of farmers.
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Access No. 95109 | 20 secs | 1990s | Bobadah, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview, Bruce Broad on the sale of the property because of the decline in rural industry
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Access No. 95110 | 7 secs | 1990s | Bobadah, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Auctioneer standing in among sheep in pen. Farmers gathered around fence of pens. Group of farmers watching sheep stock auction. Man standing among sheep in pen. Good shot of sheep crammed close together in pen.
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Access No. 95111 | 3 secs | 1990s | Bobadah, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview Margaret Broad - Farmer talking about budgeting on the farm
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Access No. 95115 | 13 secs | 1990s | Bobadah, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Group of farmers watching stock auction. Auctioneer among sheep in pen. Woman in foreground right of frame with clip board.
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Access No. 95117 | 2 secs | 1990s | Bobadah, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Shot from middle of road as traffic passes either side of Military Road, Cremorne. MOJO Advertising building
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Access No. 95119 | 3 secs | 1990s | Cremorne, Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Shots of ÒMojo AdvertisingÓ executives seated around table. They are watching television advertisements and discussing them. Interview with executives
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Access No. 95121 | 55 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
CU on blades of a steel windmill turning in slow motion. POV from side window of car as it drives through rural countryside.
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Access No. 95122 | 3 secs | 1990s | Condobolin, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Shot from ground - sheep as they jump over camera. Blue sky and white clouds.
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Access No. 95124 | 4 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Various shots of meeting of ÒRural Action Movement - Morawa W.A.Ó - speakers feel politically disenfranchised
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Access No. 95125 | 30 secs | 1990s | Morawa, WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
John Kerin - Minister, Primary Industries 1983-91Ó, speech about the importance of farmers
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Access No. 95127 | 13 secs | 1990s | © ABC | Colour |
Max Johnson chairing a meeting of ÒRural Action Movement - Morawa W.A.Ó.
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Access No. 95128 | 26 secs | 1990s | Morawa, WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Track alongside a diesel train in outback landscape
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Access No. 95129 | 3 secs | 1990s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Farmer's demonstration- marching for their survival.
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Access No. 95130 | 8 secs | 1990s | © ABC | Colour |
Diesel goods train in rural landscape
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Access No. 95134 | 1 sec | 1990s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Simon Crean addressing a farmer's demonstration.
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Access No. 95135 | 3 secs | 1990s | © ABC | Colour |
Engine of diesel train left to right past camera.
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Access No. 95136 | 2 secs | 1990s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Max Johnson, President of Rural Action Movement - Morawa W.A. speaking into microphone at farmer's demonstration.
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Access No. 95137 | 5 secs | 1990s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Carriages of goods train beside camera.
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Access No. 95138 | 2 secs | 1990s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Group of men sitting on brick wall with buildings in background. Parked in front of them is truck loaded with dead sheep.
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Access No. 95139 | 5 secs | 1990s | © ABC | Colour |
Carriages of diesel train along side camera. Westrail. Aerial over men fixing break in railway track. Sabotage by protesting farmers near Geraldton in WA. Interview Max Johnson, President of Rural Action Movement. Slow motion of farm equipment burning.
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Access No. 95141 | 37 secs | 1990s | Geraldton, WA, Australia | © ABC | Colour |
Interview, Max Johnson - President, Rural Action Movement. Don Aitkin - Political Scientist about minerals and service economies being our new export industries
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Access No. 95147 | 30 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Shots of ÒMojo AdvertisingÓ executives seated around table. They are watching television advertisements and discussing them. Talk about portraying Australians in advertising
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Access No. 95149 | 1 min 30 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Fran Rowe, rural counsellor, takes cardboard sign from back of station wagon and attaches it to a farm shed. Sign about Farming for the Future. VS of meeting inside shed. Pan of cars parked outside shed. Interviews with farmers. Small groups in discussion at meeting
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Access No. 95150 | 1 min 9 secs | 1990s | Bobadah, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview Fran Rowe - Rural Counsellor / Farmer about utilising community resources to help farmers become business people. VS ÒFarming for the FutureÓ meeting.
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Access No. 95154 | 44 secs | 1990s | Bobadah, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Carriage of automatic knitting machine past camera. Spools of fine wool. Foot using treadle on machine. CU on sewing machine. CU on hand knitting. CU on woman's face. Industrial knitting machine. CU on knitted garment. Shots of textile factory with women at sewing machines. Knitting mill at Toorallie
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Access No. 95157 | 18 secs | 1990s | Bombala, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview - Peter Smith -ÓToorallieÓ talks about the doom and gloom future of farming. Sheep dog running through long grass. Sheep in background. Good South Coast NSW rural landscape. WS of flock of sheep being mustered by truck and dogs. Main street of Bombala. VS of Toorallie knitting factory with industrial knitting machinery and women on factory floor.
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Access No. 95168 | 1 min | 1990s | Bombala, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview Claire Smith of- ÒToorallieÓ about the knitting factory.
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Access No. 95179 | 10 secs | 1990s | Bombala, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Various shots of woman using computer to design knit wear patterns. Dannielle Smith talks about the design of knitwear.
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Access No. 95180 | 22 secs | 1990s | Bombala, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Various shots of wool fashion parade at Sydney Royal Easter Show
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Access No. 95182 | 16 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Interview , Gawen Rudder - Director Corporate Communications, Mojo Australia about country being reflected in fashions. Sergio Nincheri - Macquarie Textile Group, Albury N.S.W. about Australia international reputation for wool products.
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Access No. 95183 | 1 min 10 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Macquarie Textiles, Looking along rows of looms with spools of thread. Various shots of CU sections of looms operating. Good high shot of factory floor of high tech knitting equipment.
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Access No. 95186 | 28 secs | 1990s | Albury , NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview Sergio Nincheri - Macquarie Textile Group, Albury N.S.W. about expansion into South East Asia
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Access No. 95190 | 12 secs | 1990s | Albury, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview - Peter Smith of Toorallie knitting mill about competition in the market
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Access No. 95191 | 14 secs | 1990s | Bombala, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Packing new knitwear in ÒToorallieÓ box. CU woman's hands knitting. Pan across bales of wool stacked in large warehouse.
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Access No. 95192 | 25 secs | 1990s | Bombala, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview Graham Blight - Ex-President National Farmers' Federation about wool industry not being different to any other in terms of the numbers of successful and unsuccessful members. Andrew Stoeckel talks about society and economic rationalism. John Thornhill, Theologian / Writer about the mix of competitiveness and subsidy in the wool industry
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Access No. 95194 | 1 min 16 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Feed sheep on the farm. Truck pulling tank across dry grass dropping feed for sheep . Farmer and son in truck, good sheep and rural shots of dry yellow crop with sheep being fed from truck. Callum Downs property.
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Access No. 95197 | 34 secs | 1990s | Clare Valley, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Film inter title: ÒGuardians of the woolly flocksÓ. 2 shots of drovers around camp fire. In one shot drover is hopping round in a sort of dance.
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Access No. 95203 | 2 secs | 1990s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
John Thornhill, Theologian / Writer
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Access No. 95205 | 16 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Aerial over tree studded hill to misty rural land beyond.
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Access No. 95206 | 25 secs | 1990s | NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival. Large metal ball and chair being dragged through bush to fell trees. Tractor dragging large metal ball and chain through bush
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Access No. 95207 | 24 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview Bob Porter - Farmer about land clearing and the planting of gardens and lawns
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Access No. 95210 | 16 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Woodchopper swinging axe toward log, top falling off. Crowd seated in open stand at woodchopping Royal Easter Show - Royal Agricultural Society
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Access No. 95211 | 7 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview Dean Graetz - Ecologist.
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Access No. 95214 | 12 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival. Teams of horses pulling farming equipment across paddock, ploughing the soil. CU of ears of ripe wheat in field. Tractor pulling farming equipment to plough soil.
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Access No. 95215 | 30 secs | 1920s | © NFSA | B&W |
Flat dry earth with fence between paddocks. Wind blowing top soil toward camera as dust. Soil degradation
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Access No. 95219 | 10 secs | 1920s | © NFSA | B&W |
Sun in pink light, Qantas plane coming in to land on dusty tarmac. Adelaide dust storm, May 1994. Aerials of the city, people protecting themselves from the dust
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Access No. 95223 | 22 secs | 1990s | Adelaide, SA, Australia | © ABC | Colour |
Interview John Thornhill, Theologian / Writer about relationship to the land
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Access No. 95229 | 22 secs | 1920s | © NFSA | B&W |
Cooking kangaroo meat over a BBQ. Meat in marinade. Cooking demonstration in David Jones Food Hall. Customers asking questions about kangaroo meat and tasting. Vox Pop
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Access No. 95230 | 46 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU on emu's feet strutting across dry ground. VS of Dromaius Emu farm, CU's of emu heads. Emu looking at camera. Farmer trying to put emu into pen. Emus running around property. John McLeod Interview
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Access No. 95232 | 1 min 22 secs | 1990s | Mount Gibson, WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview Dean Graetz, Ecologist
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Access No. 95245 | 6 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Looking down on kangaroo hopping across tree studded rocky ground - poor shot
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Access No. 95246 | 13 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview, Dean Graetz, Ecologist - degraded land is due to people not over stocking
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Access No. 95247 | 11 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Man standing in bush taking photograph. Good shot of river with trees and eroded banks. Tranquil river with large gum on water's edge.
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Access No. 95248 | 37 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview Bob Porter - Farmer about biodiversity
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Access No. 95252 | 4 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
VS of Bob Porter and woman walking through bush gathering gum nuts for seed. CU on a container of gum leaves
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Access No. 95253 | 22 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Man sitting by computer talking. Dean Graetz, Ecologist.
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Access No. 95254 | 4 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Section of a Fosters television commercial.
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Access No. 95255 | 20 secs | 1990s | © National Film and Sound Archive | Colour |
Interview, Gawen Rudder - Director Corporate Communications, Mojo Australia. Helen Irving - Historian. Celebration of the Nation television commercial in front of Uluru.
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Access No. 95256 | 1 min 12 secs | 1990s | © NFSA and National Film and Sound Archive | Colour |
Brass band down city street in parade. Opening of Royal Easter Show Sydney. Flock of sheep in parade. Crowds watching from footpaths. Past Sydney Town Hall.
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Access No. 95263 | 30 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview John Thornhill - Theologian / Writer.
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Access No. 95267 | 17 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Farm gate ÒThe OverflowÓ.
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Access No. 95268 | 2 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival. B & W shots of man shearing in slow motion interspersed with colour shots of shearing and shearing shed activity - montage
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Access No. 95269 | 15 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
Interview Frank Weston - Farmer
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Access No. 95276 | 4 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Good shots of flock of sheep in green field running to camera. Tree studded hills in background. Sheep running away in evening light
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Access No. 95277 | 5 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview Andrew Stoeckel, economist about the future of the wool industry
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Access No. 95280 | 7 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Advertisement showing rural farming scenes.
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Access No. 95281 | 21 secs | 1990s | © National Film and Sound Archive | Colour |
Interview Gawen Rudder - Director Corporate Communications - Mojo Australia
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Access No. 95282 | 10 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
CU on blades of windmill turning . Aerial large flock of sheep near shed full of hay bales.
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Access No. 95283 | 3 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
Slow motion pan past high rise building POV ground up
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Access No. 95286 | 13 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
POV ground up as sheep jump over camera.
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Access No. 95287 | 6 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
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