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Change at Groote, The

A look at the influence of the manganese industry on the lives of the Aboriginal people of Groote Eylandt.
Year : 1968 | Total Duration : 27 Minutes | Producer : Richard Mason
Director : Stefan Sargent |
Director Stefan Sargent and cinematographer Keith Gow.
Aboriginal and non indigenous children in school looking at map of Australia with teacher. Aboriginal and other workers at open mine, driving earth moving vehicles. Aboriginal man hunting. Explosions. Aboriginal woman and baby swimming. CU Aboriginal people playing didgeridoo and sticks. CU baby's face.
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Access No. 123178 | 3 mins 39 secs | 1960s | Groote Eylandt, Gulf of Carpentaria | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Workings of mine including diggers and earth moving equipment, heat haze, Aboriginal woman sleeping on ground, small child with doll. CU aboriginal hunter's face. Aboriginal and non indigenous children playing in school, boys playing with trucks in classroom. Aboriginal man driving truck. Heavy rain, working at open mine, mud, tyres through water.
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Access No. 124873 | 2 mins 48 secs | 1960s | Groote Eylandt, Gulf of Carpentaria | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Minister hand ringing bell at church. Aboriginal people walking to church, includes mothers and children. Religious service, Aboriginal and non indigenous congregation, Lord's Prayer in native language, Mothers breast feeding babies. CU's faces. CU hands playing organ. Aboriginal women sewing outdoors, CU foot peddling sewing machine. Man playing didgeridoo.
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Access No. 124874 | 1 min 52 secs | 1960s | Groote Eylandt, Gulf of Carpentaria | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Group of Aboriginal people, various CU's faces, playing music, didgeridoo, reading, lying around, washing, body scarring. Aboriginal hunters with body paint and spears. Amongst community, people sleeping, motorbikes, naked babies etc. Aboriginal men paddling canoe. Bulldozers clearing land. Laboratory scenes with manganese. CU's aboriginal women faces, learning to bathe baby using plastic doll.
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Access No. 124875 | 3 mins 44 secs | 1960s | Groote Eylandt, Gulf of Carpentaria | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Aboriginal boys with non indigenous teacher learning technical skills, CU's faces. New housing, non indigenous man walking around, talking to Aboriginal woman holding baby. VS manganese mined and on conveyor belt. Indigenous and non indigenous workers together, cup of tea, in bus, returning home to modern housing.
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Access No. 124876 | 2 mins 33 secs | 1960s | Groote Eylandt, Gulf of Carpentaria | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Night shots, ship at dock, conveyor belt. Aboriginal and non indigenous men drinking together at hotel pub. Earth being moved, bulldozers, Aboriginal drivers. Large trucks at mine, rocks, explosion, drilling, manganese mining. Aboriginal men sitting in street, unemployed people, women sitting around with children, babies. Scenes of shanty huts.
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Access No. 124877 | 6 mins 44 secs | 1960s | Groote Eylandt, Gulf of Carpentaria | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Various shots Aboriginal people, didgeridoo, hunters, body paint, making smoke for custom burning clothes, men in canoe, CU faces. Aboriginal and non indigenous men raising walls on prefabricated house, boys up tree, canoe. Rocks up conveyor belt, Aboriginal workers, CU men and children, Aboriginal man asleep on ground.
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Access No. 124878 | 2 mins 31 secs | 1960s | Groote Eylandt, Gulf of Carpentaria | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Montage of images of mining, Aboriginal people, land clearance etc. Aboriginal man walking up iron staircase at mine, aboriginal and non indigenous workers, children, Aboriginal paintings, mining, explosion, trucks, Aboriginal boy running through leaves, river rushing over boulder.
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Access No. 124879 | 1 min 39 secs | 1960s | Groote Eylandt, Gulf of Carpentaria | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
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