FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

Opening titles. Aboriginal man standing in foreground, mountainous landscape. VS traditional life - aboriginal people walking about, making shelter, digging up and eating witchetty grubs. CU woman's face. Woman and toddler children bathing in river. Men playing didgeridoo, dancing with painted bodies, corroboree.

HAS Two aboriginal people paddling canoe. VS women in mission skirts, aboriginal people carrying supplies off ship, men making mud bricks at mission settlement. Non indigenous man at settlement.

Non indigenous man driving up in Land Rover, chats to aboriginal people at camp, CU old man's face. VS Aboriginal people in modern clothing, humpies. Queue of women receiving supplies. Woman with sack of flour, making damper, cooks it in ashes of camp fire. Non indigenous man from Welfare Branch with aboriginal people off aircraft, non indigenous nurse with toddler, outdoor X- Ray. Pan settlement. Non indigenous teacher with children outdoors. Children drinking milk and receiving fruit.

Aboriginal homes. Health checks carried out on aboriginal people including eye and ear drops. Children brushing teeth and hair, receiving soap and washing clothes in buckets as part of instruction on hygiene. Good shots girls lined up doing washing. Toddler washed in tin bath. Small girls sitting at table saying prayers and eating at mission settlement.

Aboriginal children in uniform file into school. Small children learn to read in classroom. Aboriginal girl measuring and making clothes for small child using Singer sewing machine. Children drawing in sand, small girl painting at easel. Men learning manual skills - learning to make and braid leather straps. Children dance.

Non indigenous man from Welfare Branch teaching Aboriginal men trades such as carpentry, building, painting, welding, putting corrugated iron on roof. Men climbing and fixing windmill. Man feeding pigs. Man with motor cultivator, men tending vegetables. Cutting bananas, herding cattle on foot, branding cattle. Herd of horses. Aboriginal stockman on horseback to camera.