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Patterns of Time and Distance.

Discusses the effects of the isolation of the Australian continent on the life and attitudes of Australians.
Series : Australian Geography | Episode : 10 | Year : 1972 | Total Duration : 18 Minutes | Producer : Malcolm Otton
Director : Edwin Moses |
Watercolour paintings of life in gold fields
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Access No. 44213 | 1 min 5 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Underwater shots, weed, coral, moray eel, various marine life on Barrier Reef (1972)
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Access No. 44215 | 17 secs | 1970s | Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage, Aboriginal men performing corroboree this footage is interspersed with shots of animals, wombat, Tasmanian devil, numbat, koala, joey , kangaroo, echidna, birds, crocodile, emu (1972)
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Access No. 44216 | 36 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Domestic animals, rabbits in dry grass, merino sheep grazing, man working as stockman on horseback (1972)
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Access No. 44217 | 18 secs | 1970s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Paintings, engravings, sailing ships, life on board ship. (1972)
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Access No. 44218 | 22 secs | Unknown | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Travelling shots, across water, approaching land, shoreline, sandy beach, and slope heavily wooded with Eucalyptus, mangroves (1972)
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Access No. 44219 | 36 secs | 1970s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Engravings sailing ships, Fort Denison, convicts in chains, inventory of goods, labels and advertising sheets for goods, early Sydney Farm Cove - pan to ships at anchor (1972)
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Access No. 44220 | 1 min 6 secs | Unknown | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Small waves breaking on shore at beach, tracking shots through dry scrub (Mallee country?) disused rusty plough (Stump Jump), small green wheat shoots from earth, WS wheat fields (1972)
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Access No. 44221 | 51 secs | 1970s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Qantas V jet taxing in on tarmac, ground crew moving into action, Arrivals Hall, Sydney International Airport, people waiting for people to arrive, Various Vox pops of people just arrived back in Australia, various nationalities, including one elderly woman in black head scarf and black dress (Greek, Italian ?) looking up at electronic arrival board, Flight details flipping over on electronic airport Arrivals board, people walking through corridors off plane, V jets on tarmac, plane taking off over traffic underpass Sydney, traffic coming toward camera as plane lifts off above (1972)
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Access No. 44222 | 1 min 36 secs | 1970s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
POV moon buggy along on moon, fully outfitted Astronaut tripping over on surface of moon (1972)
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Access No. 44224 | 10 secs | 1970s | the Moon | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Tank through jungle Vietnam?, soldiers (1972)
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Access No. 44225 | 10 secs | 1970s | Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Hippy style rock group, long hair, colourful shirt, electric guitar etc., girl dancing, h/a band, and crowd dancing, lights with coloured filters spinning. (1972)
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Access No. 44226 | 10 secs | 1970s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
United Nations Building (New York) exterior, interior one of the assembly conference rooms, William McMahon (later Prime Minister) representing Australia, Swiss representative, other interiors (1972)
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Access No. 44227 | 16 secs | 1970s | New York, USA | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
News headline posted in wire rack for the ÒSunÓ - headline says - ÒLink the world, Duke of EdinburghÓ, legs passing, various shots of people of different ethnic origins passing on street, news headline from ÒSunÓ - ÒAust- US trade pactÓ (1972)
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Access No. 44228 | 17 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Interior rocket, 2 Astronauts on surface of moon (1972)
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Access No. 44229 | 17 secs | 1970s | The Moon | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Hare Krishna chanting in procession across street full of traffic, newspaper headline ÒAsian UnityÓ then pan to man in sandwich boards advertising Flea Markets in Kings Cross as he walks along a Kings Cross street (1972)
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Access No. 44230 | 11 secs | 1970s | Kings Cross, Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
News footage Australian and Vietnamese soldiers (1972)
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Access No. 44231 | 5 secs | 1970s | Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Hippy band interspersed with the following political events, William McMahon & Sukharno, Queen Elizabeth II & Duke of Edinburgh along in open car during visit to Australia, POV from moon buggy, men at monitors watching Astronauts on moon, various people passing on street, headline ÒLink to WorldÓ, moon landing module launching from platform let on moon (1972)
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Access No. 44232 | 40 secs | 1970s | Australia; Indonesia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
POV freeway over hands on steering wheel to oncoming light traffic, through Zetland on South Darling Street Sydney, traffic emerging from underpass under airport runway Botany, eyes in rear view mirror traffic on freeway approach, Sol Encel interviewed whilst driving car (1972)
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Access No. 44233 | 40 secs | 1970s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Charles Blackman (painter) painting and sketching in studio, panning around paintings stacked around wall, including self portrait, talking (1972)
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Access No. 44234 | 1 min 39 secs | 1970s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Pan across rural landscape, mountain ridges and rolling plains, to Ian Turner (historian) on ridge talking (1972)
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Access No. 44235 | 1 min 13 secs | 1970s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Convoy of cars pulling caravans in dust and heat moving into dip country road, Slim Dusty driving, diesel engine train, through dry scrubby country, Slim Dusty and band on stage performing under banner ÒSlim Dusty Country Music Show". Flat dry plain with sparse trees, Aboriginal couple walking along roadside, convoy of caravans crossing bridge over wide sandy river bed with narrow river , People, including Aboriginal woman queuing at ticket window to buy ticket to Slim Dusty Show, man looking at merchandise, people filing past woman collecting tickets at door, audience seated in deck chairs watching performance, performers on stage, trees on plain, mountains in, caravans passing along road in mid distance.
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Access No. 44236 | 2 mins 30 secs | 1970s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Pan across rural countryside to cows grazing around derelict shed and mine head with lift in mine shaft, enormous mining truck to camera, Slow motion explosion, huge ridge of soil falling away, billowing clouds of dust (1972)
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Access No. 125675 | 26 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
Pan ocean to shoreline, including cliffs(1972)
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Access No. 125676 | 18 secs | 1970s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
VS Port Arthur convict buildings, Interview Geoffrey Blainey whilst walking on a beach
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Access No. 125677 | 1 min 28 secs | 1970s | Port Arthur, Tas, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
HA Pan over inner city suburb, high rise apartments, Interview Sol Encel, Sociologist (1972)
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Access No. 125678 | 29 secs | 1970s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
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