FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

Cattle herd in outback. Two stockmen on horses ride up to river, smoking, one lighting up cigarette, ride off up sandy river bank (Cooper's Creek). Herd across Morney Plain with hills in background. Mail truck pulls up on road, mail man gets out and waves, drover talking to mailman. Mail truck with CS Spencer, carrier, Windorah on side. Pages of RM Williams catalogue showing different styles of Akubra hat. Drover rides away. Herd across flat plain. Quicktime clip available.

LS cattle herd across Morney Plain with hills in background. Mail truck pulls up on dusty road, mail man gets out and waves, drover turns his horse from herd, rides over. HAS drover talking to mailman, man opens door of truck with CS Spencer, carrier, Windorah on side. Passes mail to drover who looks through it. CU pages of RM Williams catalogue showing different styles of Akubra hat. Drover rides away. Good herd across flat plain, hill in distance. Quicktime clip available.

LS across barren outback plain, small dot travelling along which is mail truck. Mail truck along dirt track to camera. Tanbar? homestead, truck pulls up outside house, elderly couple (station manager MacFarlane and wife) greet mail man and are given mail bag. Wave goodbye as mail man departs. Truck through outback, trees, CU driver. VS flocks of brolgas in flight, performing unusual display. Mail truck through outback landscape. LS dingo in scrub. Truck through dry river bed. Mail truck stops by flooded river, mail man takes out mail bag and walks to tree by river and rings empty can, homestead in distance. Flock of pelicans fly above flooded river. Mail man waits by river as small boat approaches, greets middle aged couple, passes mail bag, waves goodbye, pushes boat off. Quicktime clip available.

Mail truck drives towards flooded river in Great Dividing Range, stops at at edge. Mail man gets out and scratches head. Aerial flooded rivers across land in channels. Interior aircraft, pilot. Aerial tree tops in flood waters. Aerial homestead (probably Tanbar station) on dry land, flood waters surround it. Small aircraft taxiing in on outback runway. Woman gets out of car as Trans Australian Airlines TAA aircraft stops. Quicktime clip available.

Female Trans Australian Airlines TAA ÒToddÓ flight attendant opens door of small aircraft smiling. Pilot helped elderly woman in hat down steps, rural air field. Middle aged couple wave and walk over to greet aircraft, pilot brings out a pair of oars and mail bag for couple. Aboriginal and non indigenous stockmen watch on, smiling. Other supplies unloaded. Aircraft flies away into distance over flat land. Quicktime clip available.

Aerial outback station. LS Land Rover driving out from station. Trans Australian Airlines TAA aircraft ÒHawdenÓ taxiing along rural airstrip. Aboriginal and non indigenous people wave, pilot waves from cockpit window. Middle aged woman approaches aircraft and takes box of fresh fruit, hold box down to two small boys to take some. Young aboriginal mother with baby holding banana. Aboriginal boy given apple. Good CU's aboriginal faces including elderly man in hat with beard. Quicktime clip available.

Trans Australian Airlines TAA aircraft in flight against blue sky. VS river in flood and shots as water recedes exposing trees. VS new vegetation including CU yellow button tops flowers, blue grass, salt bush and clover. Cattle grazing. VS drovers herding cattle. Mail truck to camera along dirt road, stockmen rides over on horse and receives box with new Akubra hat. Rides away in new hat across red dirt. Good shot herd across outback. Quicktime clip available.