Of Dreams and Reasons

Opening titles. Archival Footage of steam train towards camera pulling into station. CU wheels and MS steam from funnel and wheels.

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CU Eric Bogle singing tribute song to his mother Nancy. B&W archival stills of Nancy Bogle. Bogle discusses his formal farewell with his mother when immigrating to Australia from Scotland. B&W archival still of Nancy and her children, zoom to baby Eric. CU Bogle interview. MCU Bogle playing guitar and singing, seated in front of an upright piano. B&W archival still of Bogle as a teenager with two male friends. CU Bogle reflects upon his decision to leave Scotland for Australia. Various B&W stills including baby Eric nursed by his mother, Bogle at different ages and with fellow migrants on ship; Nancy at different ages.

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Archival Footage of English migrant men eating at outdoor tables arranged in long line, and dancing around a campfire carrying spears.

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CU interview with Eric Bogle, intercut with B&W photos of him as a new immigrant.

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VS various photographs including Yugoslav man clasping woman's hand coming from porthole of ship, new immigrants with passports, exterior of Immigration Office (1900's), European settlers by shore (engraving), engraving of destitute people arriving in Australia by raft, and painting of Napoleonic War

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Archival footage of line of convicts marching led by police, flag raising ceremony after the landing of Governor Arthur Phillip in Sydney (re-enactment from film) and convicts pushing logs through water from the Feature Film, ÒFor the Term of His Natural LifeÓ

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Interview with Charles ÒSpikeÓ Routley speaking about convicts arriving with Captain Arthur Phillip's fleet.

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Archival footage of tall ship at sea, penal settlement at Port Arthur, convicts on ship, working on chain gang, convicts on forced march, pulling ploughs (From the Feature Film, ÒFor the Term of his Natural LifeÓ)

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Interview with Charles ÒSpikeÓ Routley speaking about harsh changes in land use and poaching intercut with illustrative engravings. VS drawings and paintings of machinery and people flocking to towns.

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Archival footage from a feature film of the destitute pushing against gates and people scrambling for food. CUs various drawings showing crowded city streets, desperate people and prisoners. CUs drawings of prison ships and American War of Independence. WS old world map with zoom to Australia marked as New Holland.

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Archival footage from feature film of barrel of wine falling off the back of a wagon and a crowd of people rush in to drink it off the ground. VS mass overcrowding, poverty and unrest on streets in France. French Revolution

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Re-enactment footage of young couple kissing as they say goodbye, man boards transport ship headed for America. People wave from ship. From unidentified period film or mini-series

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Paintings of tall ships at sea and drawings of passengers and ships during rough weather. Illustrations of capsized clippers. VS photograph of poster ÒEmigration in Search of a HusbandÓ. Drawing of early settlement.

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Interview with Charles ÒSpikeÓ Routley speaking about land grants with accompanying illustrations of men hammering in land claim stake at night and archival footage of animal bones in dust and lost lambs (probably from a feature film).

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Drawings and paintings of land sales, people queued at migration office, belongings loaded onto ship, coal powered ship. Painting of sailing ship at sea and painting of Irish uprising.

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Interview with Clare Dunne intercut with drawings of the Irish Famine, Irish family packing wagon, Irish family hoeing the ground, poverty, poor people on the street during the potato famine, and effects of penal laws.

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Zoom to drawing of Emigration Depot. CU stained glass window in German church and re-enactment with priest and parishioners in traditional costumes singing in church. CUs faces of congregation, most women in black and wearing bonnets. Soldiers run into church and violently break up the congregation.

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Interview with Ian Harmstorf recounting background of German migration to South Australia. CU pan of painting arrival of migrants by ship.

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Archival footage of warfare with mounted soldiers charging ground battalion. CUs of painting of fleeing peasants. Interview with Ian Harmstorf speaking of German migration.

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CUs watercolours showing Germany families on arrival in South Australia and people reading letters from home. Interview with Ian Harmstorf sitting next to gravestone of immigrant born in Mecklenburg, Germany. CU to German inscription.

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CUs watercolours depicting VS new settlers. Archival footage of bearded man gold panning then shouting ÔGold!' to camera. News sheet straight off press announcing gold find. Horse drawn stage coaches past camera. Influx of men walking through street with gold digging equipment. Hat thrown over roof of house.

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VS Gold Rush in Ballarat showing scores of men on horses galloping away from camera, teams digging with pick axes, VS man gluing up poster proclaiming Crown land sale in Ballarat (spelt Ballaarat in 1855 poster). WS land auction with many bidders.

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B&W photograph of sugarcane on horse drawn dray, 2 men leaning on a fence, rows of cane cutters posing for photograph.

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Interview with Dr Roger Kessing with CU of him holding old rifle and talking about Solomon Islanders coming to Queensland intercut with drawings of Solomon Islanders on ships after being kidnapped to work on the cane fields.

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B&W photographs of Solomon Islanders (Kanakas) arriving in Australia to work in cane fields. CU photographs of Islanders faces turned towards camera. VS Islanders on ships. CU interview with Dr Roger Kessing.

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Archival footage of Federation Parade (1/1/1901), laying the foundation stone for the new parliament building in Canberra (poor quality).

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Interview with Phillip Adams with racist propaganda posters & placards and reading from one.

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Archival footage of the opening of Federal Parliament, May 1901. Interview with Reuben Wheeler, retired Immigration Officer intercut with B&W photographs of English slums, people in laneways and high angle shot.

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Archival Footage from Dad and Dave feature film.

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Colour footage of older women in Italian or small Mediterranean village weaving on loom and carrying out domestic duties. Post war colour footage of refugees on the road. WS refugees on road through fields with smoke billowing in distance.

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Interview with John Zigouras intercut with photographs from Greece, one showing children in Greek outfits. Various family photos taken after family's migration to Australia demonstrate growing numbers of emigrating family members until the screen is full with relatives.

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Archival footage of nazis marching, bayonets drawn. VS refugees and people being herded into cattle cars on train. WWII

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Interview with migrants Herbert & Doris Liffman.

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Archival footage of post WWII refugees, belongings put onto the back of a a truck, woman crying, lines of refugees walk along country road, walking into Displaced Persons Camp. MS man helping a young boy to drink from mug.

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Interview with Dr Egon F. Kunz talking about the unique position and problems of being a refugee.

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B&W footage from the film Mike and Stefani of young Polish family being interviewed with father making an impassioned plea in English.

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Interview with Dr Egon F. Kunz

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Archival Footage of Immigration Officer Harold Grant in Germany,1948 interviewing a young Polish family. Father makes a impassioned speech in English. CU certificate being signed.

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Archival footage of whistle blowing on ship, CU to anchor being pulled up, GS tug pulling ship and pan along row of immigrants on deck of ship looking over railing.

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B&W archival footage during WWII in Greece with supplies laden on mules accompanied by soldiers. Interview with George Kakanis about migrating from Greece to Australia.

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Greek migrants getting onto ship in Mediterranean port. Interview with Nick Malaxos about problem of leaving people behind. VS elderly women woman washing in leafy Australian backyard and elderly woman in Greek village with chicken at her feet, and a man washes his face at a communal tap .

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Interview with Theo Coumbis talking about migrant loneliness. CU and GS of old Greek man making wooden model boat balancing on bright blue boat on Greek sidewalk. VS Greek village life including women in black on chairs outside houses and woman with child. CU Theo Coumbis with eyes closed singing.

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CUs painting of early immigrant family with woman crying on table.

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Archival Footage of European migrant women walking from plane across tarmac carrying baggage after arriving in Australia. VS faces of women.

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Archival colour footage of Greek fishing village, people leaving by boat as relatives wave and weep. MS family group gathered around elderly weeping woman. CU Nick Malaxos interviewed. VS Greek buildings on hillside and brief CU Theo Coumbis singing and zoom to couple depicted in painting.

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VS Greek buildings on hillside of village in Greek island that was decimated by emigration. Aerial view of town with several boats in harbour from photograph (?). Interview with Nick Malaxos speaking of migration from island.

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Archival colour footage of migrant workers leaving factory, workers leaving mine, oil workers, factory interiors with workers in production lines referred to as Òfactory fodderÓ. Interview with Despina Taylor speaking of the expectations of her family's migration to Australia and the disappointing reality.

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CUs colourful poster of faces of WWII Australian soldiers then superimposed over archival B&W footage of group of seated diggers laughing. Interview with Despina Taylor speaking of her father's hopes when migrating and terror felt by family at chance of failing medical examinations. VS B&W archival footage of reflex test on knees, man having eyesight test, chest examination. WWII

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Archival footage from 1956 Olympic Games with women's medal ceremony in front of crowds, mens' pole vault, women's hurdles

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Archival B&W footage of 1956 demonstrators in Hungary, civilians riding through streets crowded over tanks,1956 Hungarian Revolution, men being escorted by others with guns.

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Interview with Hungarian migrant John Schiffer intercut with B&W archival footage of people in crumbling streets of Budapest, CU documents being burnt on the ground, flags being burnt.

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Interview with Tom Stratton, Immigration Officer speaking about being in Yugoslavia in the 1950s selecting Hungarian refugees and refusing an applicant on racial grounds. B&W archival footage of street fighting in Hungary and people dodging bullets. Interview with John Schiffer on migrating to Australia.

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Archival footage of CU hand turning globe to Australia and CUs brochures for new migrants.

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Alf Garnett (Warren Mitchell) talks to camera in crowded Marrickville street re assisted passage (10 pound Poms). Archival B&W footage of television commercial ÒYou Too can go to Australia for 10 poundsÓ, high angle shot of Australia House, London, people in London immigration office looking at advertisement for assisted passage.

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Archival footage of passenger liner arriving in Sydney. VS well dressed new migrants leaving ship. Poster & brochures designed to attract people to Australia. Interview with retired immigration officer George Kiddle speaking of nationalities Australia needed to attract.

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Archival recruitment film for prospective migrants showing family groups on beach, young women and lifesavers. Wife dropping husband off at work and CU interview with English woman who plans to emigrate to Australia.

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Interview with David Taylor, retired Immigration Officer talking about selling Òsunny AustraliaÓ and archival footage of life in Australia with woman hanging washing on the line, driving her Holden car through the suburbs past houses arriving at Killarney Heights High School. Interview with family who have just arrived from England re the weather being cool & wet.

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Interview with George Kiddle, retired Immigration Officer re lack of balanced information sought by migrants. Stills and exerpts from archival recruitment commercial ÒIn Australia I WillÓ for potential migrants showing koalas, people at work and play, technology, icons such as Sydney Harbour Bridge. Interview with David Page of the Department of Immigration speaking of false expectations of potential migrants.

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Tilt down government building to stuffed kangaroo in forecourt then being carried away by man. Interview with David Page of the Department of Immigration speaking of false expectations of potential migrants. VS filming of game show in studio where a woman catches money falling from ceiling (actually man tipping bucket of money from ladder).

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Interview with retired immigration officer David Taylor re ignorance of migrants as to which country they are migrating to. Interview with migrant Bertram Wainer who had appeared on UK poster urging immigration to Australia intercut with B&W archival stills of Glasgow slums and army officers.

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Interview with retired immigration officer David Taylor and archival footage of people lined up at immigration office and people boarding plane at night. CU interview with young British migrant couple who are going back to England. Interview with David Page from Department of Immigration intercut with young English migrant returning to England.

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Interview with migrant Alex Skutenka standing in front of sign ÔWelcome to Wacol' . Interview with English migrant woman about her expectations at the time of migration. Fish-eye view of nose of jet plane to camera and GS cabin interior with passengers disembarking. Archival colour footage of mother and young daughter leaving plane with female Qantas plane crew in red uniform and cap.

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Interview with migrant Dennis Turner intercut with family photos and photographs of home in England and family holidays abroad. Photographs of children as infants contrasted with photos of them as adults. Colour archival footage of migrant family arriving in Australia by ship and young woman in foreground and ship passes Fort Denison.

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Archival footage of street fighting in Lebanon during 1970s civil war and people running for cover. Men fighting with guns on car roofs. WS bombs dropped from plane in Vietnam, young naked girl running to camera after being hit by napalm (famous shot), MS girl running away from camera with the skin burnt off her back. VS Indochina fighting in village with MS small children covering ears.

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Interview with refugee Peter Nguyen speaking of a life spent in a constant battle zone compared to complete peace of life in Australia. Archival colour footage of line of refugees with oxen in Vietnam; Vietnamese refugees wading ashore from boats (arriving in Australia as boat people).

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Interview with retired Immigration Officer, Greg Humphries speaking of difficulties immigration officers felt at having to choose between potential refugees for immigration. VS sick Vietnamese children and babies.

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Map with arrows showing immigration patterns from various countries to Australia. CU Warren Mitchell as Alf Garnett doing comic rant about British having to queue to immigrate to Australia.

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Photos of Indian family; MS Asian couple in Customs area. MS interview with David Page from Department of Immigration showing example of information display boards used in foreign immigration offices. Pans of photograph of 11,000 potential immigrants lining streets of Manchester, England waiting for decision from immigration office.

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Vox Pop with British couple talking about standard of living in Britain; exterior of Australia House, London. CU ÔNow Serving' number in immigration office; VS people at immigration office counter. Woman being interviewed by officer re why she wants to emigrate POV officer.

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Archival footage from the Feature Film, ÒFor the Term of His Natural LifeÓ with convicts pulling plough. Zoom to women in period costume waving goodbye to people emigrating (from feature film or mini series). Colour footage of people leaving Greek village by boat waving to those left on shore and MS elderly woman crying on shore being comforted by family.

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Re-enactment of German soldiers violently breaking up a church service. Archival footage of WWII refugees walking in lines, having papers stamped. Tug pulling ship from wharf, people on deck of ship during journey, MS pan along faces of migrants on ship, MS couple with young daughter looking over railing of ship, pan along row of migrants looking over rail.

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