FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

Title Details

One Man's Road

An Aboriginal man, Clive Williams, recalls his personal journey from the country towns and reserves of rural New South Wales to life with his family in Sydney.
Year : 1967 | Total Duration : 24.5 Minutes | Producer : John Martin-Jones
Director : Bob Kingsbury |
Aboriginal family of Clive Williams gathered at table eating meal, including teenage boy, small girl, teenage girl, father Clive Williams, wife Ida. Drinking tea.
Access No. 126349 | 1 min 13 secs | 1960s | Rozelle, Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA Restricted | B&W |
Still photographs of Aboriginal people, rural towns, family group, Aboriginal workers on the land.
Access No. 126367 | 1 min 44 secs | 1930s | NSW, Australia | © National Library of Australia, The Mitchell Library | B&W |
Aboriginal men in western dress chanting around campfire. Empty dirt street of rural town, utility truck down street and Aboriginal men of different ages on street. Children playing close to humpies. Mothers and toddlers, naked toddlers, scenes of poverty. Inside corrugated iron shack. Family by fire, smoking and drinking. Drunken man singing.
Access No. 126368 | 5 mins 10 secs | 1960s | Casino, Moree, Lismore, Coffs Harbour and Baryulgil, NSW, Australia | © NFSA Restricted | B&W |
Small Aboriginal girl running. Children playing near humpies, some chopping with axe. People around shacks, man fixing shoes. Mother bathing toddler in tub outdoors. Groups of children playing in settlement, skipping. Man chopping wood by shack, GS washing on line, chickens, digging garden, small girl watching. Children playing in broken down car. Toddler helping to collect vegetables from garden.
Access No. 126372 | 2 mins 26 secs | 1960s | Casino, Moree, Lismore, Coffs Harbour and Baryulgil, NSW, Australia | © NFSA Restricted | B&W |
Small Aboriginal boy playing. Young teenagers present. Group of Aboriginal people gathered, laughing and betting money, gambling with cards on blanket. Inside tidy house of Aboriginal man who has set about improving living conditions for his family. Woman sweeping, another reading. Settlement. Two children walk along road to house in town. Family on verandah.
Access No. 126373 | 2 mins 46 secs | 1960s | Filmed in Casino, Moree, Lismore, Coffs Harbour and Baryulgil, NSW, Australia | © NFSA Restricted | B&W |
Night shot city skyline of Sydney. Aboriginal man Clive Williams in overcoat walking along street at night past shop windows. Sign for Cooperative for Aborigines, Tranby Cooperative College. Aboriginal men of different ages gathered, Clive Williams standing by side of road lighting cigarette and walking at night.
Access No. 126374 | 2 mins 54 secs | 1960s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA Restricted | B&W |
Pan down across rooftops and backyards of inner city housing in Rozelle. Aboriginal children playing in backyard and in street. Aboriginal man Clive Williams with glasses, holding small toddler in doorway talking to non-indigenous woman in doorway. His wife Ida joins them.
Access No. 126384 | 1 min 21 secs | 1960s | Rozelle, Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA Restricted | B&W |
Aboriginal woman Ida, wife of Clive Williams, standing next to busy street. View from shop as she looks into window. Track following Ida Williams in busy supermarket. She walks home crossing streets on foot carrying bag. Enters home, removes coat. Children writing and doing homework at table.
Access No. 126385 | 3 mins 38 secs | 1960s | Rozelle, Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA Restricted | B&W |
Aboriginal children playing in backyard of inner city house, laughing. Clive Williams and wife Ida sitting on step of verandah reading and chatting. CU man's hands. He smokes cigarette. Family eating meal at table, CU children's faces.
Access No. 126386 | 3 mins 19 secs | 1960s | Rozelle, Sydney NSW, Australia | © NFSA Restricted | B&W |