FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

Title Details

Populations

Using a diverse range of visual examples, Populations describes most of the principles that cause populations to look and behave as they do.
Series : Australian Ecology | Episode : 3 | Year : 1979 | Total Duration : 13 Minutes | Producer : Malcolm Otton
Director : David Barrow |
Male pedestrian walking toward camera.
Access No. 59669 | 3 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
Monitor lizard (goanna) scurrying up tree trunk. Dragon fly on twig. Spider . Bees on gum blossoms. CU on Bees in hive.
Access No. 59671 | 16 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
Group of kangaroos laying under tree. Australian native flannel flowers. Birds in wet lands. Flock of pelicans take off and camera follows them. Large flock of birds (sea gulls?) on water.
Access No. 59676 | 26 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
Sharks and other fish underwater
Access No. 59680 | 11 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
Marshy wet lands. 2 birds (brolga) one takes off and flies a small distance. Magnetic ant or termite hills or mounds. Huge spiders web against green bushy B/G. CU inside termite hill showing termites. Good CU of white termite.
Access No. 59681 | 58 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
Time-lapse of bird egg hatching. Egg begins to crack and baby bird begins to emerge. High angle CU of chicks and broken eggs. CUs inside bee hive. CU on bird feeding its chicks
Access No. 59690 | 33 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
Underwater shot of cat fish swimming in twig lettered murky water. Other small fish amongst weedy water
Access No. 59695 | 16 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
Baby grass hoppers emerging from soil. Various CUs of adult grasshoppers. Archival shot of grasshopper plague
Access No. 59697 | 29 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
Aerial over dry red desert earth. Flooded desert with flower bloomimg.
Access No. 59704 | 18 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
Flames of bush fire roaring through trees. CU of branches burning. Pan of aftermath and devastation, burnt blackened trees. CU on new growth and flowering gum tree.
Access No. 59707 | 35 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
Looking up at brilliant blue sky with flock of birds (pelicans?) wheeling high above. Aerial over red dry desert earth with line of trees following dry water course. CU on saltbush in dry arid land. Pan across flat dry land with many saltbush.
Access No. 59712 | 38 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
From top of tree with birds nests, to 2 baby birds in nest on ground in foreground. Bats, flying fox, fruit bats hanging in trees, flying overhead.
Access No. 59716 | 43 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
VS shots termite nest including baby. CU of termites.
Access No. 59724 | 17 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
Kangaroo standing under trees, zoom in on joey in pouch.
Access No. 59725 | 21 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
Carcass or skeleton remains of kangaroos laying on red dry earth. Good drought shots. Single kangaroo bounding through red outback
Access No. 59726 | 10 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
Puff ball seed head of dandelion plant. Seeds blowing in the wind.
Access No. 59729 | 9 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
Flock of birds (magpie geese?) flying across camera and landing on wet lands. Night shot bird (Tasmanian Mutton) walking across sandy soil. Migratory birds.
Access No. 59731 | 25 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
Aquatic plant (salvinia) floating on water. WS of water way choked with red leaf aquatic plants (Salvinia).
Access No. 59733 | 21 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
CU of termite nest with termites scurrying around. Microscopic creatures (protozoa) inside termite gut.
Access No. 59735 | 32 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
Waves rolling in and splashing on rocky outcrop. Underwater shot of crab with sea sponge on its back.
Access No. 59738 | 20 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
Man in hard hat using chain saw to cut down tree. Up to top of tree as it begins to fall. Zoom in on good shot of row of harvesters in silhouette against golden colours of crops.
Access No. 59740 | 15 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
Freshly dug potatoes being piled in front of camera. Men in BG moving boxes of harvested potatoes. CU of soggy strawberry, green apples with diseased skin,
Access No. 59742 | 16 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
CU green caterpillar and beetle on leaf. Opening of peach which is infested with grubs
Access No. 59745 | 14 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
Tractor towing container away from camera as it sprays orchard with chemicals. Hand spraying trees. CUs of grubs
Access No. 59747 | 21 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
Various shots cane toads laying in green grass.
Access No. 59750 | 37 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
CU shots prickly pear plants. One in flower. CU on lavae of Cactoblastis moth grubs on prickly pear plant. Opening plants to show grubs. WS showing small area of prickly pear and rejuvenated land
Access No. 59754 | 1 min 4 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
Decomposing body of rabbit against dry brown grass. CU on bee hive. CU on wheat field
Access No. 59761 | 15 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
Small silver fish swimming.
Access No. 59764 | 4 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
2 birds (brolgas) flying across camera.
Access No. 59765 | 8 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |