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Living with Disaster

The film studies such natural disasters as the 1967 Tasmanian bushfires, the 1974 flooding of Brisbane and Cyclone Tracy in Darwin on Christmas Day of that year.
Series : Habitat | Episode : 2 | Year : 1975 | Total Duration : 26 Minutes | Producer : Malcolm Otton
Director : Crea Tarrant |
Opening titles. Pedestrians in street, CU's people of many different ethnic backgrounds including probably India, some elderly, one policeman laughing with woman, some with umbrellas. Night shot zoom into high rise building Natural Disasters Organisation headquarters in Canberra.
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Access No. 126705 | 47 secs | 1970s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Zoom in to document ÒCombating DisastersÓ drawn up by director Natural Disasters Organisation director Major General Alan Stretton . Pan still photographs of disasters on display including Westgate Bridge, Melbourne, casualties on stretchers.
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Access No. 126706 | 15 secs | 1970s | Canberra, ACT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Interior track through offices of Natural Disasters Organisation, Canberra, zoom into Emergency Operations Maps. CU map showing route of Cyclone Tracy 1974. Map of Australia showing Darwin in relation to Canberra. Street scenes of Darwin showing people from different ethnic backgrounds including aborigines. Interior supermarket, Traffic. Dark storm clouds. People running from rain. Heavy rain on street.
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Access No. 126707 | 1 min 10 secs | 1970s | Canberra, ACT; Darwin, NT, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Interior offices of Natural Disasters Organisation, Canberra, maps on wall. CU map showing route of Cyclone Tracy 1974 to Darwin. Re enactment of early reports of Cyclone Tracy. Track past empty desk belonging to Duty Operations Officer and Incident book, telephone lights up. Night shot track past house, bedroom light switched on. Zoom in to closed curtains.
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Access No. 126708 | 1 min 6 secs | 1970s | Canberra, ACT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
POV car track past Canberra buildings. Glass doors of Natural Disasters Organisation building swing closed. Re enactment Emergency Operation during Cyclone Tracy 1974. Many people on telephones, telex coming in, hands typing on keyboard.
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Access No. 126709 | 38 secs | 1970s | Canberra, ACT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Re enactment events during Cyclone Tracy in Darwin 1974. Director Natural Disasters Organisation Major General Alan Stretton climbing aboard aircraft, medical team following. Stretton talking to man aboard aircraft. Map showing route of aircraft from Canberra to Mackay and Mount Isa. Aboard Hercules aircraft, minister for Northern Territory Rex Patterson wearing headphones and talking on radio , Stretton next to him.
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Access No. 126710 | 45 secs | 1970s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Re enactment events during Cyclone Tracy in Darwin 1974. Night shot side view Hercules aircraft landing. Night shot POV through windscreen wipers of car to woman in ruined house. CU Director Natural Disasters Organisation Major General Alan Stretton in car. Pan broken signpost Darwin Police Station. Stretton out of car. Interiors Emergency Headquarters in police station, exhausted police taking reports on radio.
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Access No. 126711 | 47 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Pan overcast sky and wreckage around Darwin. CU's man's face looking stunned. VS devastation: HAS broken homes, pan along devastation. (December 1974)
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Access No. 126712 | 49 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
RAAF transport aircraft landing in Darwin after Cyclone Tracy. Food supplies handed out. Evacuation scenes at airport. VS traffic, damaged cars driving. Registration of refugees. Track through crowds of cyclone victims. Officials working. People evacuated on aircraft, different ethnic backgrounds, hippies playing sitar, children. (1974)
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Access No. 126713 | 2 mins 7 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Re-enactment - family in car evacuating Darwin after Cyclone Tracy 1974. CU woman in car piecing together torn photograph of child. POV from car across to bush. Aerial tiny vehicle travelling across outback
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Access No. 126714 | 33 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Map of Australia showing position of Hobart, Tasmania. Two still photographs of city with burning bushfires behind (February 1967) .
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Access No. 126715 | 11 secs | 1960s | Hobart, Tas, Australia | © The Mercury | Colour |
Three B&W still photographs Hobart bushfires, February 1967, CU's couple next to remains. Victims of fire zoom into old man's face. Family in relief centre, zoom in mother's face.
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Access No. 126716 | 25 secs | 1960s | Hobart, Tas, Australia | © The Mercury | B&W |
Map of Australia showing position of Brisbane. B&W VS flooding in streets of Brisbane, 27 January 1974. Submerged houses, aerials. Subsided houses.
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Access No. 126717 | 26 secs | 1970s | Brisbane. Qld, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
CU group from Queensland Disaster Welfare Committee gathered in Social Service offices, Brisbane after Brisbane floods. CU hand written lists of figures relating insurance claims. Bruce Buchanan, Australian Council of Social Services, Board of Governors working at desk, CU's documents giving his recommendations needed for disaster victims. Buchanan writing at desk, zoom in to face and brushed over hair.
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Access No. 126718 | 1 min | 1970s | Brisbane. Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
VS People walking about and picking through rubble following Brisbane floods 1974 including man in wheelchair.
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Access No. 126719 | 13 secs | 1970s | Brisbane. Qld, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
CU flowering bush, POV from car track past damage in Darwin following Cyclone Tracy 1974. Men at desk studying plans.
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Access No. 126720 | 25 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Queue of men, victims of Cyclone Tracy 1974 registering. Blackboard sign registration for people intending to stay in Darwin. POV car track past damaged homes dissolved to newspaper reports on aftermath of cyclone. CU face of mayor of Darwin, Dr Ella Stack.
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Access No. 126721 | 50 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Three still B&W photographs faces of victims of Cyclone Tracy, child with bandage on head, woman with baby, small child in adult's arms. (December 1974)
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Access No. 126722 | 19 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Exterior shot University of Queensland. Students walking around campus. CU Professor Edna Chamberlain in conversation, she led a research project following Cyclone Tracy.
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Access No. 126723 | 16 secs | 1970s | Brisbane, Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Darwin airport, large group of people waiting to be evacuated following Cyclone Tracy. People queuing up stairs to Ansett aircraft. (December 1974)
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Access No. 126724 | 23 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Aftermath of Cyclone Tracy, Darwin 1974. B&W still photograph baby crying in mother's arms. (December 1974)
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Access No. 126725 | 6 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Aftermath of Cyclone Tracy, Darwin 1974. Victim of cyclone sitting in hall, lighting cigarette and holding small baby.
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Access No. 126726 | 5 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
POV car track past damaged home, tree blowing in wind. CU woman's face as she stands with other victims of Cyclone Tracy. (December 1974) Another Muslim woman.
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Access No. 126727 | 16 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W still photograph woman crying, holding 2 small children following Cyclone Tracy. Photograph children painting tree. (December 1974)
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Access No. 126728 | 14 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
People attending conference set up by Natural Disasters Organisation, Major General Alan Stretton director of NDO talking to others including representatives from Australian Council of Social Services, Max Dumais from Darwin Disaster Welfare Committee, Col. Cyril Bautovich from Salvation Army, Colin Benjamin from Australian Association of Social Workers and John Morahan from St Vincent de Paul. (Nov 1975)
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Access No. 126729 | 58 secs | 1970s | Canberra, ACT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Darwin 1974 Uniformed police and other emergency workers lined up (some look scruffy). Queues of people at Darwin airport waiting to be evacuated, included aborigines, after Cyclone Tracy.
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Access No. 126730 | 25 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
People attending conference set up by Natural Disasters Organisation, Major General Alan Stretton director of NDO talking to others. (Nov 1975)
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Access No. 126731 | 7 secs | 1970s | Canberra, ACT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Pan ruined house and collapse of structure as a result of cyclone damage
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Access No. 126732 | 6 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
CU flames of bushfire, bare structures of buildings blazing. POV car track past ruined buildings in aftermath.
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Access No. 126733 | 14 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Pan collapsed and ruined buildings in aftermath of cyclone.
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Access No. 126734 | 7 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Cattle in drought conditions, starving cow in lying dirt.
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Access No. 126735 | 6 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
B&W archival footage people wading through torrents of flood water in main street. Cars being swept by waters.
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Access No. 126736 | 6 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
B& W still photograph man looking at tangled wreckage of aftermath of Cyclone Tracy. (December 1974)
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Access No. 126737 | 8 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Track past wrecked buildings after Cyclone Tracy. CU contents of freezer . Ruined houses. CU's people who have lost their homes including children and mother and baby. (December 1974). Re enactment people talking in Emergency Rooms in Darwin and Natural Disasters Organisation in Canberra.
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Access No. 126738 | 46 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage Tasmanian bushfires. CU fire burning trees. Rescue workers with victims next to ambulances. (February 1967)
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Access No. 126739 | 17 secs | 1970s | Hobart, Tas, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
CU profile of social worker Oude Vrielink from Community & Social Welfare Department looking out. Involved in helping victims of 1967 Tasmanian bushfires (filmed in 1974).
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Access No. 126740 | 11 secs | 1970s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Middle aged man picking through smouldering wreckage after Tasmanian bushfires, rescue workers hosing down smoking rubble, smoke, victims pulled out from wreckage onto stretchers. (February 1967)
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Access No. 126741 | 36 secs | 1970s | Hobart, Tas, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival footage pan burnt out wreckage including corrugated iron and ruined car following Tasmanian bushfires. (February 1967)
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Access No. 126742 | 16 secs | 1960s | Hobart, Tas, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
B&W footage burning buildings from Tasmanian bushfires. (February 1967)
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Access No. 126743 | 17 secs | 1960s | Hobart, Tas, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Silhouette and profile of social worker Oude Vrielink from Community & Social Welfare Department involved in helping victims of 1967 Tasmanian bushfires . (filmed in 1975)
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Access No. 126744 | 18 secs | 1970s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Fire fighters on fire engine, smoke. Flames through trees of bushfire in Tasmania. (February 1967)
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Access No. 126745 | 15 secs | 1960s | Hobart, Tas, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
B&W archival footage Tasmanian bushfires: VS Fire fighters and flames. Men beating fires with jackets. (February 1967)
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Access No. 126746 | 23 secs | 1960s | Hobart, Tas, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
CU woman talking about getting over Brisbane floods of 1974. Steps of Flood Relief Centre set up by Queensland Disaster Welfare Committee. Woman entering and talking to women at desk.
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Access No. 126747 | 41 secs | 1970s | Brisbane. Qld, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
B&W archival footage men amongst wrecked homes following 1974 Brisbane floods. Quick shot reporter interviewing victim.
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Access No. 126748 | 10 secs | 1970s | Brisbane. Qld, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Pan across barren land with a few remains following Brisbane Floods of 1974
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Access No. 126749 | 7 secs | 1970s | Brisbane. Qld, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Group gathered in offices of Natural Disasters Organisation in Canberra, zoom in man on telephone. CU faces and zoom in to person walking through mud after Brisbane floods. CU Bruce Buchanan, Australian Council of Social Services, Board of Governors , working at desk. Group from Queensland Disaster Welfare Committee gathered in office talking together.
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Access No. 126750 | 19 secs | 1970s | Canberra, ACT; Brisbane, Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Elderly man, victim of 1974 Brisbane floods being interviewed, zoom in to people walking through mud behind.
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Access No. 126751 | 9 secs | 1970s | Brisbane. Qld, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
CU Bruce Buchanan, Australian Council of Social Services, Board of Governors working at desk. Group from Queensland Disaster Welfare Committee gathered in office talking together following Brisbane floods.
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Access No. 126752 | 28 secs | 1970s | Brisbane, Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
HAS truck towing in caravans to be used as temporary homes. VS construction work and damaged homes.
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Access No. 126781 | 23 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Group at desk studying plans for reconstruction. Residents meeting gathered. CU government document ÒPlanning Options for Future DarwinÓ.
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Access No. 126782 | 25 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
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