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Immigration - The Waves That Shaped Australia

Looks at the history of government immigration policy in Australia and the effects this policy has had on the development of Australia's nationhood.
Year : 1986 | Total Duration : 18 Minutes | Producer : Geoff Barnes
Director : Paul Woolston-Smith |
CU of hand holding a book and CU of young boy's face and William Sneddon at a Citizenship or Naturalisation Ceremony
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Access No. 124252 | 42 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
B/W archival of tall ship at sea. CU of bow of ship.
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Access No. 124257 | 11 secs | 1880s | © NFSA | B&W |
Black & white stills of drawings of convicts inside First Fleet ships
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Access No. 124258 | 27 secs | 1880s | © Latrobe Library or Melbourne Harbour Trust Authority - see contact details | Colour |
White wash of big seas and waves crashing onto rock ledge
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Access No. 124259 | 6 secs | 1980s | © NFSA | Colour |
White wash of big seas and waves crashing onto rock ledge. Tropical sunset on beach with silhouette of pandanus palm. Aerial over Arnhem Land cliff face. Low angle WS of Arnhem Land cliff face, zoom in. Good shots
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Access No. 124260 | 36 secs | 1980s | Arnhem Land | © NFSA | Colour |
Aboriginal rock paintings, Nourlangie Rock at Kakadu National Park
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Access No. 124261 | 18 secs | 1980s | Kakadu National Park, NT, Australia | © Filmed on location | Colour |
Tall ship at sea with land visible in B/G
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Access No. 124262 | 6 secs | 1980s | © NFSA | Colour |
Quick zoom out on still of ornate antique style map of Australia.
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Access No. 124263 | 5 secs | 1980s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Still of a painting of a Dutch explorer, Abel Tasman
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Access No. 124264 | 6 secs | 1800s | © Mitchell Library | Colour |
Still of painting of Cook's Landing and British placing flag on Australian soil. Black and white archival drawing still of English judges or parliamentarians
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Access No. 124265 | 12 secs | 1800s | © Levine | Colour |
Still : various close ups of black and white drawing of First fleet ships and War of Independence
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Access No. 124266 | 11 secs | 1800s | © Latrobe University | Colour |
Still; Old World map, zoom in on New Holland
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Access No. 124271 | 7 secs | 1980s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Still : Black and white drawing of people farewelling Britain for journey to Australia in colonial times and black and white drawing of convicts on ships or in jail
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Access No. 124272 | 12 secs | 1800s | © Latrobe | Colour |
Still ; colour painting of Captain Cooks landing at Port Jackson.
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Access No. 124275 | 18 secs | 1800s | © Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW | Colour |
Pan across painting of early colonial life in New South Wales.
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Access No. 124276 | 4 secs | 1800s | © Mitchell Library | Colour |
CU on words ÒEmigration in search of a HusbandÓ, pan up to B&W cartoon showing matronly woman.
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Access No. 124278 | 6 secs | 1800s | © National Library of Austalia Canberra | B&W |
Various black & white drawings of convicts in chain gangs with guards in red coat uniforms. B&W drawing of convict with arms tied and on his knees in front of a crown official with sword in hand. Pedestal has sign ÒGame LawsÓ
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Access No. 124279 | 46 secs | 1800s | NSW, Australia, Tas, Australia | © State Library of NSW | B&W |
Stills ; black and white drawings of wool industry and free settlers arriving from Britain in 1800's
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Access No. 124281 | 20 secs | 1800s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Still : Colour paintings of the colonies in Australia in 1840's
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Access No. 124283 | 16 secs | 1800s | © Mitchell LIbrary | Colour |
Stills : Colour paintings of German settlers to South Australia in 1840s
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Access No. 124285 | 20 secs | 1800s | © National Library of Australia, Canberra | Colour |
Stills : Colour paintings of Aboriginal people and faces
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Access No. 124286 | 10 secs | 1980s | © Art Gallery of NSW -Public Domain | Colour |
Still : Black & white drawings of gold fields and various nationalities who immigrated to Australia during 1850's. Black and white photographs of Chinese people panning for gold. CU on panning equipment and still of two diggers outside miners hut
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Access No. 124289 | 1 min | 1800s | © John Oxley Library and others | B&W |
High angle shot of headstone with Chinese characters and WS of cemetery
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Access No. 124291 | 5 secs | 1980s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Still : Drawings and black and white photographs of families and farmers in Australia in 1850's
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Access No. 124293 | 9 secs | 1800s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
VS of colour painting of streetscape in 1850's and painting of Royal Arcade in Bourke Street, Melbourne
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Access No. 124294 | 14 secs | 1910s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © National Library of Australia | B&W |
Black and white archival film of crowded street scenes with trams and horsedrawn carriages.
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Access No. 124295 | 18 secs | 1900s | © NFSA | B&W |
Black and white archival of two lambs and drought footage. Bones and carcasses of dead sheep on windy desert landscape
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Access No. 124296 | 14 secs | 1900s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Black and white archival footage. GS of people bustling past camera on crowded street. WS pan across crowded rowboats on harbour. WS of street procession with horsedrawn carriage. Laying Foundation Stone at new Commonwealth parliament. CU pan down Immigration Restriction Act - White Australia Policy - outlining the need for a dictation test. Greeting Card wreath of White Australia. Cartoon of white man whipping an Indian man.
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Access No. 124297 | 39 secs | 1900s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Stills; Black and white photographs of Pacific islander men and women working in cane fields and Italian workers
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Access No. 124298 | 19 secs | 1900s | © Oxley Library, Brisbane | B&W |
Archival footage of World War 1 mounted soldiers assembled and riding down hill. Poster ÒBoys come over here - you're wanted' WWI
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Access No. 124299 | 18 secs | 1910s | © NFSA | B&W |
Anti - German WWI animation
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Access No. 124300 | 6 secs | 1940s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Black and white stills of Prisoner of War camp
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Access No. 124301 | 7 secs | 1940s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Soldier in military uniform farewelling, kissing, shaking hands with women in 1920's fashion, man and a child.
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Access No. 124302 | 10 secs | 1920s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Depression footage, poverty, lines of people waiting for handouts, hunger, poor, 1930's
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Access No. 124304 | 28 secs | 1930s | Brisbane, Qld, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
VS archival of large anchor underwater and tugboat pulling large liner
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Access No. 124305 | 7 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
Nazi archival footage. Hitler, large crowds, swastika, breaking windows, throwing burning torches
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Access No. 124307 | 16 secs | 1940s | Germany | © NFSA | B&W |
Jewish refugees in Nazi Germany loading their possessions onto trucks. War footage of planes and bombings WWII
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Access No. 124309 | 18 secs | 1940s | Germany | © NFSA | B&W |
Refugees arriving in Australia, disembarking from ships with suitcases
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Access No. 124310 | 8 secs | 1940s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Black and white footage - Japanese flag, Japanese military on horses towards camera. Poster Japan Attacks Singapore. WWII
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Access No. 124311 | 10 secs | 1940s | © Film World | B&W |
Australian soldiers marching and erecting barbed wire fencing on beach - first AIF. WWII
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Access No. 124312 | 6 secs | 1940s | © National Film and Sound Archive | B&W |
Homefront war effort, women working factories and men working on engines, aircraft assembling plants. WWII
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Access No. 124313 | 13 secs | 1940s | Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
VE Day - victory celebrations in the streets, parades, tickertape, crowds waving , smiling. Armistice
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Access No. 124314 | 7 secs | 1940s | Australia | © Film World | B&W |
Good archival shot of chemist and corner shop. Pedestrians walking along busy main street of a large country town, Bicycle riders on footpath. Two men standing in front of a country house or building, lighting cigarettes and with a small boy on a bicycle
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Access No. 124315 | 16 secs | 1940s | Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Arthur Calwell, Minister for Immigration 1945-1949 gives speech about immigration being necessary for the survival of Australia. ÒWithout immigration, the future of Australia as we know will be uneasy and brief. As a nation we shall not surviveÓ
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Access No. 124316 | 13 secs | 1940s | Australia | © Film World | B&W |
Archival footage of displaced people, refugees, homeless, wandering along street with all their possessions on their backs. Good CU of children, young boy crying. WWII
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Access No. 124317 | 21 secs | 1940s | Europe | © Film World | B&W |
Archival footage British trades men waving from ship, Orion ship. Three women in hats disembarking from ship. Women cycling, CU on their legs on bike peddles
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Access No. 126338 | 20 secs | 1950s | © NFSA / Film World | B&W |
Archival colour footage group of migrant men walking along street with cars angle parked against the curb, foundry with molten metal and spark flying , man wearing protective eye wear in front of furnace., vats of molten metal. , men working in car manufacture assembling automobile, welding, colour all in blue tones. Sequence on migrant workers on construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Scheme, white birds flying from tree.,
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Access No. 126417 | 37 secs | 1950s | © NFSA | Colour |
CU on hand turning a globe map of the world. CU on map of Australia
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Access No. 126418 | 6 secs | Unknown | © ABC | Colour |
Archival footage of ship docked at Sydney Harbour with Sydney Harbour Bridge in distant background. Immigrants standing on deck of ship and walking down gangplank with possessions in baskets. Migrant groups welcoming new immigrants at wharf.
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Access No. 126419 | 23 secs | 1950s | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival colour footage of migrant workers lined up at bundy clock at work
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Access No. 126420 | 7 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
Mechanics working on turbines and calibrating other smaller pieces of equipment. Good shot of factory production, large industrial machines and equipment on factory floor.
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Access No. 126421 | 9 secs | 1970s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
B&W archival news footage of police control at a demonstration, workers throwing rocks at windows of Broadmeadows Ford Assembly factory. CU on broken windows.
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Access No. 126422 | 20 secs | 1970s | Broadmeadows, Vic, Australia | © ABC | Colour |
Pedestrians walking along street, focused on one woman in striped shirt, barrister in wig walking along street, woman in bikini sunbaking on beach and pull back to crowded beach scene.
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Access No. 126423 | 20 secs | 1980s | © NFSA | Colour |
MS of woman in yellow looking out over Pinchgut / Fort Denison on Sydney Harbour from ferry. Sydney skyline in background. Family group on deck of ferry
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Access No. 126424 | 8 secs | 1980s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival colour footage of war torn Lebanon with people shooting guns, others fleeing with small children
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Access No. 126425 | 16 secs | 1970s | Lebanon | © Visnews, London | Colour |
Archival colour footage of militia shooting guns in Chile
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Access No. 126426 | 2 secs | 1970s | Chile | © Visnews, London | Colour |
Archival footage of men loading missiles in civilian war in Timor and small children blocking their ears against the noise of explosions.
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Access No. 126427 | 5 secs | 1970s | Timor | © Visnews, London | Colour |
Archival footage of bombers dropping napalm on Vietnamese village Trang Bang, footage of Vietnamese girl Kim Phuc running naked along the street . Shot of her back black with burn from napalm.
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Access No. 126428 | 8 secs | 1960s | Vietnam | © Visnews, London | B&W |
Archival colour footage, pan along line of Indo-Chinese refugees with wagons, animals, children and their possessions leaving war torn Vietnam. Boat people arriving and wading ashore. CU of small Vietnamese girl. VS of relief and medical aid provided by Australia. Doctors giving medical check ups. MS of Vietnamese woman holding emaciated baby with its eyes closed.
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Access No. 126429 | 57 secs | 1960s | © Visnews, London | Colour |
Vietnamese people on plane, woman applying make up and others looking out of windows. CU on engine of large plane. Group of Vietnamese people waiting at airport to greet new arrivals. Woman arrives and cries at seeing her waiting relatives. Welcoming of new immigrants, Naturalisation Ceremony
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Access No. 126430 | 1 min 13 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
Stills : Colour paintings of Aborigines hunting with spears
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Access No. 126431 | 13 secs | 1900s | © Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW | Colour |
1920's footage of farewell on wharf with people holding streamers as ship departs England for Australia with people on assisted passage
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Access No. 127120 | 25 secs | 1920s | Australia | © Film World | B&W |
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