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G'Day Sport

A look at the traditional and innovative sports played by Australians.
Series : Frontiers Downunder | Episode : 3 | Year : 1977 | Total Duration : 28 Minutes | Producer : Peter Johnson
Director : David Roberts |
Opening montage of Australian sports, novelties and lifestyles and titles.
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Access No. 103792 | 1 min 33 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Brief shots of surf-lifesaving boat over wave, people playing baseball in outback, surf carnival, sailing on Sydney Harbour, men playing Australian Rules football, woman throwing cow pat, children playing cricket, professional cricket match, and athletes throwing discus.
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Access No. 103793 | 21 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Brief shots of men clowning around at Henley on Todd Regatta, CU woman in white lawn bowls outfit with 2 fingers raised, men paddling water craft at beer can regatta, man playing golf on red outback soil, MS runner toward camera, CU walkers torsos towards camera and slow-motion high jumper over bar.
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Access No. 103807 | 15 secs | 1970s | NT, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival 1909 footage of Australian Rules football. VS play, large crowds, and crowds running onto field. MS young boys in crowd waving to camera. Policeman passes in front.
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Access No. 103814 | 47 secs | 1900s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © Mrs Dorothy Taylor 19 Orlando Ave Cremorne NSW 2090 | B&W |
WS crowds watching Australian Rules football game. CU man carrying slab of beer past camera. Slow-motion shots of Aussie Rules game and various crowd shots with CUs of spectators cheering and gesturing. Section of crowd shaking pompoms and CU man in towelling hat drinking from beer can.
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Access No. 103815 | 42 secs | 1900s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
VS children in park playing non-competitive games such as tips with tennis ball. Woman holding small child looking on.
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Access No. 103824 | 24 secs | 1970s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS large group of children in walking race. VS nippers race where junior lifesavers compete in events and young surf-lifesavers in longboats and marching on beach. CU woman in surf shallows adjusting bikini being watched through binoculars by man on beach towel. CU man with binoculars and GS topless sunbaker on beach.
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Access No. 103839 | 37 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Men playing Australian Rules football in slow-motion. VS soccer game and rugby union game. VS rugby union scrum and goal kick. WS football spectators on grassy slope. VS rugby league game. WS spectators in stands. WS spectators waving flags after player scores goal. High angle shot over crowds in stand.
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Access No. 103851 | 1 min 19 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Aerial view of massive crowds in City to Surf running race. Zoom out from runners to show William Street buildings and crowds lining streets. CUs runners of all ages past camera.
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Access No. 103858 | 13 secs | 1970s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
VS baseball match.
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Access No. 103867 | 16 secs | 1970s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
VS men cycling towards and past camera on outdoor velodrome.
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Access No. 103874 | 8 secs | 1970s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
VS men rowing in sculling race.
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Access No. 103878 | 11 secs | 1970s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
VS two men men playing squash.
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Access No. 103881 | 11 secs | 1970s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
VS men ten pin bowling ball.
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Access No. 103883 | 10 secs | 1970s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Tilt of young boy dressed in tennis whites serving ball. VS play and boy playing with coach.
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Access No. 103887 | 19 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
MS bearded man playing lawn bowls. Pan elderly onlookers in bowling whites gently shaking heads. VS older men and women playing. Zoom to Sydney Harbour Bridge in background.
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Access No. 103891 | 35 secs | 1970s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
VS yachts sailing on Sydney Harbour with buildings and Harbour Bridge in background.
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Access No. 103893 | 5 secs | 1970s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
VS Henley on Todd Regatta run on foot by contestants in ÒboatsÓ in outback. Intercut with VS men sailing small yachts on Sydney Harbour. MS track to sailors swinging out on trapezes.
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Access No. 103895 | 18 secs | 1970s | NT, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
CUs women running carrying shell of boat in Henley on Todd Regatta. VS participants in novelty races and events. GS clown in boat on sand and novelty lifesaving carnival with people dressed in neck-to-knee costumes.
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Access No. 103901 | 13 secs | 1970s | NT, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
MS lifesaving footage intercut with novelty lifesaving at Henley on Todd Regatta. CU swimming signs posted on outback gum trees, lifesavers paddling over waves, regatta contestants on wheeled boards on tracks.
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Access No. 103905 | 27 secs | 1970s | NT, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Various shots of novelty boat race at Henley on Todd Regatta. MS large woman smoking and drinking from aluminium cup. VS novelty events and onlookers. Men ÒwaterskiingÓ on sand pulled behind car disguised as boat. VS surf-lifesaving in desert. MS coach in Mickey Mouse T-shirt.
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Access No. 103936 | 48 secs | 1970s | Adelaide, NT, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Aerials over outback showing water courses. Aerials over Derby, WA.
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Access No. 103945 | 29 secs | 1970s | Derby, WA, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
VS Kimberley locals preparing for Boxing Day Sports. MS woman in T-shirt, MS older man drinking beer, spectators including Aboriginal children watching and laughing. Ground being hosed down for events. CUs novelty T-shirts.
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Access No. 103947 | 23 secs | 1970s | Derby, WA, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
VS of frog race at ÒThe Boxing Day SportsÓ in Derby, WA. VS boy with frog at starting gate at commencement of race.
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Access No. 103954 | 5 secs | 1970s | Derby, WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CUs people painting the backs of cockroaches before the start of the novelty cockroach race at the ÒThe Boxing Day SportsÓ in Derby, WA. Unusual footage
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Access No. 103955 | 29 secs | 1970s | Derby, WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CUs of people painting colourful patterns on the backs of large mangrove crabs before the start of the novelty crab race at ÒThe Boxing Day SportsÓ in Derby, WA. GS woman taking photograph of crab being held. GS crabs in bin.
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Access No. 103956 | 24 secs | 1970s | Derby, WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
VS of frog race at ÒThe Boxing Day SportsÓ in Derby, WA. VS frogs hopping and owners excitedly urging them on. Thong being thrown at racing frogs.
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Access No. 103957 | 24 secs | 1970s | Derby, WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Various shots of novelty lemon race at ÒThe Boxing Day SportsÓ in Derby, WA. VS women competing and running with lemons between legs and depositing lemons in buckets at the other end. VS laughing spectators.
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Access No. 103958 | 37 secs | 1970s | Derby, WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS pan along row of men during beer drinking competition drinking through baby bottle teats as part of novelty Boxing Day Sports.
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Access No. 103959 | 17 secs | 1970s | Derby, WA, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
CU chalk circle being marked up for Cockroach novelty race at ÒThe Boxing Day SportsÓ in Derby, WA. CU cockroaches in bowl being sprayed with talc from retro tin fly sprayer. VS race.
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Access No. 103960 | 44 secs | 1970s | Derby, WA, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
CUs along row of men during novelty beer drinking competition. They are drinking from teats on small bottles of beer at The Boxing Day Sports in Derby, WA. Winner raises his arm.
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Access No. 103961 | 10 secs | 1970s | Derby, WA, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
CU snail on leaf. Large bearded man in shorts and panama hats sitting in rattan chairs beside swimming pool
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Access No. 103962 | 12 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
High shot over cricket game with grandstands in background. GS children playing cricket at suburban oval. VS men in jeans playing outback cricket on concrete pitch in red dirt.
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Access No. 103965 | 43 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
WS men on golf course and zoom out to sea in background. VS men teeing off and man hitting golf ball out of sand bunker. CU ball being putted into hole then retrieved.
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Access No. 103968 | 1 min 21 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
CU man's dusty sneaker on red dry earth and hand forcing golf tee and ball into ground. VS men playing golf in rugged outback setting. GS woman in stripey clothes drinking beer. MS small boy drinking from can. VS men and women in costumes drinking beer.
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Access No. 103975 | 39 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
VS of ÒBeer Can RegattaÓ novelty race in Darwin where boats are constructed of empty beer cans raced and driven in many different ways.
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Access No. 103978 | 27 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
VS men on knees butting each other in novelty ÒbullfightÓ on grass at night watched by spectators. MS shots of actual bullfight
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Access No. 103979 | 23 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
WS across rolling green hills with dairy farm in foreground. Slow zoom to farming herding cattle along muddy track and CUs of his gumboots sinking into manure and mud. CUs gumboots with cattle walking by and man's hands milking cow's teats. VS cattle being milked and sprayed and cattle yards. Pan to calf wearing gumboots on all fours drinking from bucket.
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Access No. 103980 | 48 secs | 1970s | Gerringong, NSW, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
CU hoe digging up weeds in grass. Man in silhouette against sun adding to weeds in wheelbarrow then wheeling it away. MS bearded man walking along country road to church.
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Access No. 103986 | 22 secs | 1970s | Gerringong, NSW, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
VS of gumboot throwing at World Gum Boot Throwing Championship, Gerringong. VS spectators on sidelines. Man retrieving gumboot from tree.
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Access No. 103989 | 46 secs | 1970s | Gerringong, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Pan along group of men at women at bar in hotel (pub) drinking. Zoom to trophy mounted on wall above bar.
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Access No. 103990 | 18 secs | 1970s | Gerringong, NSW, Australia | © NFSA - Restricted | Colour |
Various shots of cow chip throwing competition. Includes selection of dry pat, VS throwing and VS spectators. GS mechanised giant cowpat across field. Special guest, Minister of Sport & Recreation throwing cow chip. Pair of judges on field measuring throws and conversing with walkie-talkies. GS toddler with dummy picking up cow pat and walking with it.
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Access No. 103991 | 2 mins 29 secs | 1970s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Bearded man dressed formally in grey tails looking haughty. Camera follows as his hands pick up binoculars in case on small table, grey top hat from table, dusts it off with gloves and walks out of shot.
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Access No. 103992 | 13 secs | 1970s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Group of four people in suits toasting with champagne at Melbourne Cup. VS racing crowds in hats and 70s fashions. Women wearing top hats, turbans, gold jumpsuit.
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Access No. 103994 | 30 secs | 1970s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS starting gates at Melbourne Cup horse race. Gates open and horses run forward in slow-motion towards and past camera.
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Access No. 103997 | 18 secs | 1970s | Melbourne, VIC, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Group of formally dressed men in grandstand at Melbourne Cup, some looking through binoculars. Bearded man sits in front rows.
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Access No. 103998 | 7 secs | 1970s | Melbourne, VIC, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
High shot of Melbourne Cup race as rounding corner and GS crowds in stands below.
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Access No. 103999 | 3 secs | 1970s | Melbourne, VIC, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
CU man in formal suit taking binoculars from his eyes and looking ahead at Melbourne Cup race.
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Access No. 104000 | 2 secs | 1970s | Melbourne, VIC, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Country horse race past camera where riders pick up passenger at one end of field. VS horses back past camera and woman and man getting to feet after falling off horses. WS more orderly country horse race with jockeys in outfits.
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Access No. 104001 | 30 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
VS of country picnic race meeting. VS of men on horseback chasing bull and spectators clapping and shouting. VS jockeys racing on dirt track. GS woman holding drink jumping up and down. CU judge hanging winning numbers on nails.
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Access No. 104002 | 1 min 6 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Zoom out from people on rubbly mountain top
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Access No. 104003 | 5 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
VS camel race in outback town on dirt track. VS riders in mock Arabic headwear whipping camels who sit down and run the wrong way. Zoom out from group of camels racing around track
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Access No. 104004 | 39 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
VS outback or bush sports. Brief GS of Henley on Todd regatta and VS novelty event of men climbing slippery pole. CUs of man clambering over others clinging to pole. CU climber's foot revealing underpants of those climbed over.
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Access No. 104005 | 22 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
VS outback novelty sports with contestants rolling eggs along ground with noses and VS egg throwing competitions with some shots in slow-motion. Bearded man in wet weather gear attempting to catch egg which breaks onto his face.
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Access No. 104006 | 47 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Closing credits with out takes from events featured in previous footage.
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Access No. 104007 | 1 min 3 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
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