FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

MS tilt Aboriginal elder tending campfire and MS another man blowing fire. WS pan across desert landscape with scattered trees and hills. VS Aboriginal men and family groups. VS men sitting in front of wurley with small children sharpening spears and children with witchetty grubs in dish. VS Aboriginal men following animal tracks in sand with spears and woomeras raised ready to kill. WS kangaroos through scrub. MS track goanna through spinifex grass. WS naked children clambering over boulders to trees. MS children (some with blonde hair) picking wild fig which are place in bowl. GS child digging out small lizard and holding it up by it's tail. VS hunters returning with kangaroo. VS children helping prepare fire to cook kangaroo. (Probably shot at Ernabella Presbyterian Church Mission with Pitjantjatjarra people with a few shots from Papunya government settlement west of Alice Springs in NT

CUs examples of Aboriginal rock art in the South Alligator River area near El Sherana mine. CU tilt from rock art to small fire burning and elders gathered around fire singing and clapping at Papunya. CU ceremonial scars on chest of Aboriginal man with child seated next to him. GS man walking with spear and woomera to group gathered outside humpy with several dogs at Papunya. VS Papunya Aborigines living in humpies but wearing western clothes. GS Papunya children running from different camps to school and assembling at front. Tilt to teacher ringing bell and VS giving orders with GS children obeying. GS boys stripping and showering in shed. MS boy soaping younger boy. VS girls combing their hair in change room.

VS female teacher putting toothpaste onto Aboriginal childrens' toothbrushes and MS children brushing teeth at sinks. GS children walking to classrooms. GS two boys scuffling. High angle WS and pan over the various buildings of Papunya's government Aboriginal welfare settlement. VS Aboriginal men employed as butchers and cooks in Papunya kitchens and Aboriginal women working there too. VS Aboriginals from settlement arriving then queuing at dining hall for meals with men and women dining separately. VS men eating at tables in dining hall drinking from billy cans. MS adults and children stacking their plates as they leave with some crashing to ground.

GS plaque commemorating the opening of the Maningrida Settlement. GS various tribal groups outside humpies. GS man sitting on ground painting and women basket weaving. WS Aboriginal group in timber house and WS Aboriginals building another. VS young Aboriginal women planting cypress pine seedlings in tubes then placing tubes in greenhouse with thousands of others for the Forestry Department. VS Aboriginal men planting out saplings under supervision. VS Aboriginal men working as timber cutters under guidance of forestry officer. GS cyprus pine falling. GS Aboriginal man driving heavy machinery for maintenance of fire breaks and another driving tractor tilling soil. CU Aboriginal men training as farmers at the Settlement tending rows of crops.

WS pan across plains of Ernabella Christian Mission with Musgrave Ranges in distance. VS of the Pitjantjara (or Pitjantatjara) Aboriginal children playing and couple building wurley out of dried spinifex grass. CUs woman telling story in sand drawing into sand and hitting ground with stick. CUs small blonde Aboriginal girl copying drawing in sand. VS Aboriginal men saddling camels and leaving mission on them for ceremonial ventures. MS Aboriginal elder at wurley entrance. VS family groups. VS Pitjantjara men herding sheep in pen. VS two men, Big Louie and his assistant, sinking bore. VS Pitjantjara woman spinning wool in traditional way with toddler at her side with face covered in flies. CUs women with children pattern making and rug making. GS baby playing with scissors.

VS naked Pitjantjara (or Pitjantatjara) Aboriginal children having outdoor lesson in their native language with non-indigenous teacher at Ernabella Christian Mission. CUs female teacher's face. VS naked older children sitting at outdoor desks with male non-indigenous teacher learning in English using cuisenaire during maths lesson. GS Pitjantjara male assistant teacher with children. VS circle of Aboriginal men seated on ground with superintendent discussing housing scheme. VS Fregon outstation hospital run by Pitjantjara woman trained by Ernabella nursing sister treating babies. VS babies and young children.

High angle pan across Ernabella Christian Mission. GS church service being delivered in Pitjantjara (or Pitjantatjara). MS pan across Aboriginal men listening to service. CU blonde Aboriginal toddler sitting in lap of non-indigenous woman. CU Pitjantjara man reading sermon then MS non-indigenous man leading hymn. VS congregation. WS Pitjantjara congregation outside church.

WS Aboriginal men from the Knox River tribe performing Aboriginal dance with spears on Aurukun Mission. VS dancing re-enactment of story around totems. MS Aboriginal welder in full mask at work and CUs saw blade and MS men with flecks of timber over his head and torso. WS Aboriginal timber workers. VS Aboriginal stockmen in Akubras herding cattle in pens at Haasts Bluff cattle station. CU stockman smoking. GS Aboriginal women hanging washing out on line and VS of stockmens' families around accommodation provided. GS Aboriginal stockmen mustering at Manbulloo sometimes joined by young boys on horseback. Good shots stockmen and dust filled air.

GS groups of Aboriginal people gathered on streets and outside shops in town. GS Aboriginal woman gesturing in hostile way to camera. VS children playing together in preschool centre in Alice Springs. MS blonde non-indigenous girl holding hands and jumping with Aboriginal girl on trampoline. GS Aboriginal and non-indigenous co-workers in Government office in Darwin. MS indigenous Dennis Daniels, the first welfare officer in the NT, addressing camera talking about his family and work history and education. GS Daniels visiting Aboriginal woman in her home.

Map of Australia with Aboriginal populations marked out. Group of urban Aboriginal men smoking on back steps of house. Fringe-dwelling indigenous people. Schoolchildren walking home past tin huts and women and children in shanty camps.Government reserves with well groomed Aboriginal women around new public housing and woman at clothes line. Departmental welfare officer visiting Aboriginal woman and child at reserve house. Aboriginal woman Mrs Rankine of the Point Macleay Aboriginal Reserve in SA entering her home, sitting near her daughter and talking about the need to leave the reserve and assimilate with a white community. Small daughter as her mother talks about racial problems.

Children playing in wide dirt street. Aboriginal Duncan family in new house in Moree. Family around breakfast table pouring tea and eating cereal with children and baby being fed. Young daughter playing skipping rope games with local children and non-indigenous woman talking with Mrs Duncan. VS young Duncan girls at local primary school. Aboriginal and Aboriginal secondary school students in science class. Young Aboriginal telephonist with switchboard. Electrical worker tending telegraph lines. Aboriginal nurse in hospital room taking man's temperature and pulse.

WS students on veranda of Queensland University building. GS multicultural group of students including Aboriginal woman chatting. National director of University scholarship scheme, Miss Margaret Valadian (first Aboriginal graduate), at desk addressing camera talking about the scheme for Aborigines and state of Aboriginal education at present. WS students around university buildings.