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Tumanu's People

Documents the life of Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory in the mid 20th century.
Year : 1960 | Total Duration : 28 Minutes | Producer : Frank Bagnall
Director : John Morris |
Aboriginal men dancing on the occasion of someone's death, women mourning. VS carved poles for graves (probably Melville Island). Opening titles. Sun rise on horizon. VS Barren outback landscape. Willy-willy across land.
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Access No. 124337 | 2 mins 30 secs | 1960s | NT, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
HAS beach and coastline. Aboriginal (Tiwi) people paddling dugout canoes. VS catching crabs and fish with spears. Turtle on beach moving to sea. Aboriginal man talking to 2 boys and making tracks on beach to illustrate story. CU man twisting his hands before making tracks.
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Access No. 124338 | 1 min 55 secs | 1960s | Melville Island, NT, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Group of Aboriginal people gathered around waterhole. Two non indigenous men on horseback, Aboriginal people running away, men herding cattle. CU bare feet walking and line of Aboriginal people walking. Aboriginal people in settlement, sitting near humpies.
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Access No. 124339 | 1 min 36 secs | 1960s | NT, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Aboriginal people at Hermannsburg Mission being taught by Aboriginal man, CU individual faces of men and women. Aboriginal man driving tractor, harrowing land. Line of men working on land.
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Access No. 124340 | 1 min 11 secs | 1960s | Hermannsburg, NT, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
At Warrabri settlement, non indigenous woman with Aboriginal women and babies, one being weighed. Aboriginal men cultivating vegetables including beetroot, carrots, cabbages. Man feeding chickens and pigs.
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Access No. 124341 | 1 min 17 secs | 1960s | Warrabri, NT, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
At Millingimbi mission Aboriginal men mixing straw and water on ground and using feet to make mud. Women gathering dry grasses. VS making bricks and using them to build walls. Aboriginal people gathered around houses. Some making a house using corrugated aluminium. Aboriginal men working at timber mill.
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Access No. 124342 | 2 mins 30 secs | 1960s | Millingimbi Island, Arnhem land, NT, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
WS outside Alice Springs and Aboriginal man Edwin Paryrucha painting landscape. Single Aboriginal man in town squatting down and smoking. Aboriginal man Teddy Cooper with non-indigenous bus drivers, into bus NTA Bus Service, Darwin. Aboriginal man Philip Ross from Commonwealth Health Dept arriving with supplies in light aircraft, greeted by non indigenous man.
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Access No. 124343 | 1 min 18 secs | 1960s | NT, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Young aboriginal men being taught to be stockmen at Beswick near Katherine. Saddling horses, riding in line, branding. Head stockman Alan Griffiths. CU's individual faces.
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Access No. 124344 | 2 mins 10 secs | 1960s | Beswick, NT, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Aboriginal children jumping in and swimming in water. At Bathurst Island mission, girls in skirts walk to classroom. Line of aboriginal children raising and saluting Australian flag. At Warrabri, non indigenous teacher supervises fight in playground, aboriginal boys with boxing gloves. School bell ringing, children line up and march to classrooms. CU pile of school books. Children at desks, non indigenous teacher. Children learning to write and painting.
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Access No. 124345 | 4 mins 5 secs | 1960s | Bathurst Island, NT, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
WS Aboriginal mother standing with son with mountain ranges in background. Non indigenous social worker walking into settlement for mixed race families. Small children playing. in Darwin, Stuart Park preschool Centre. Aboriginal mothers and children with non indigenous children. Children of different backgrounds including Asian, playing together indoors and outdoors.
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Access No. 124346 | 3 mins 15 secs | 1960s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Aboriginal men working on building sites, driving machinery, at sewing machine. Aboriginal woman typing in office. Aboriginal and non indigenous men playing cricket and basketball together. CU bell ringing. VS aboriginal people walking across land, humpies, include families, elderly. Baptism service for baby in church. Aboriginal people working in laboratory looking through microscopes, working in classroom.
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Access No. 124347 | 3 mins 35 secs | 1960s | NT, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
At Maningrida, Arnhem Land, Aboriginal men cutting down trees with axes, non-indigenous man standing by. Aboriginal women washing babies in iron tubs, non-indigenous nurse with baby. Children lined up with cans for porridge like food. Non-indigenous woman handing out medicine.
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Access No. 124348 | 2 mins 35 secs | 1960s | Maningrida, Arnhem Land, NT, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
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