FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

CU smooth trunk of eucalyptus tree. WS orange sunrise. CU tilt up waterfall. Aerial track over forested wilderness, WS coastal landscape, WS mountainous snow landscape. Montage of rainbow in waterfall, CU of ants on fruit pods on tree, red bottlebrush flower. WS bush landscaping. Montage of bushfire, sand dunes in desert, time-lapse low cloud over mountain stream. CU yellow flowers blooming through snow, WS rainbow reflected in river, WS mountain landscape with button daisies in foreground. Montage of different landscapes from coast, rainforest to desert. Track down river through gorge. CU prostrate alpine flower in stream, CU bee on red kangaroo-paw flower, GS stream, banksia cone. LS to Black Mountain Tower across bush, zoom out to Australian National Botanic Gardens. Tilt up gum trees.

B&W 1949 photograph of prime minister Ben Chifley planting tree. 1970 photograph of prime minister John Gorton unveiling plaque in opening the Australian National Botanic Gardens.

CUs native flowers including red waratah, pink smooth darling pea, and others. Family walking along bush path, visitors on Aboriginal trail with VS directional and information signs. visitors looking at acacia (wattle) grove, through rainforest gully and mist spraying ferns. CU rainforest flower and leaf, glasshouse with palms and orchids.

B&W drawing of planned new glasshouse for Australian National Botanic Gardens.

Driving through bush POV car, botanists on field trip collecting specimens and cuttings. Zoom out from botanist recording field data in pad and zoom in to companion wrapping damp cuttings in wet newspaper by pond. CU plants being placed into plant press. CUs dried plants being mounted onto cardboard in offices. Botanist with microscope and books identifying pressed plants, returning plant folder to compactus. VS latin name labels being posted next to living plants in gardens. VS propagator preparing and planting cutting, VS potted cuttings and seedlings in glasshouse, attendant watering with hose. GS gardener planting out potted plant .

Car driving through entrance to Jervis Bay annex of Australian National Botanic Gardens (now Booderee Botanic Gardens). CUs plants including white flowering rainforest dweller, CU black fruit and Pink Hibiscus. Zoom out from lake, montage of various vistas. CUs Christmas Bell (Blandifordia) and Sundew. VS trails, tilt from ferns to elevated boardwalk. Canberra botanic Gardens laboratory doing research, CU taking scrapings from orchids. Zoom in to rare ground orchids in pots. CUs feathery red flower, Pimelea, yellow daisies, Prostanthera and bee in Bottlebrush. Botanist looking through microscope and CU drawing parts of pea flower.

CU book Flora of Australia.

WS visitor centre and bookshop of Australian National Botanic Gardens exterior and GS inside showing information desk, brochures, displays and merchandise. WS visitors in reading area and bookshop. GS black & white butterflies around fern and good brief shot of spider web blowing in breeze. WS Banksia Centre, GS disabled and elderly people tending garden. CU mauve daisies. Education officer accompanying schoolgirls through gardens. CU gardener planting in rockery. CUs bee on Grevillea, white Isotoma anethifolia and Wiry Bossiaea. Visitors viewing raised beds, GS Hibbertia, rock pools. CU dragon on dead leaves. LS waterfall. GS young Eastern Spinebill and Crimson Rosella. WS cafe, lawns, family at pond and duck. CU bees in pink bottlebrush, seed pod, Hyacinth orchid and GS schoolchildren.