FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

Title Details

Tempo - Australia in the 70s

Impressions of life and industry in Australia, emphasising growth and development.
Year : 1971 | Total Duration : 23 Minutes | Producer : Roland Beckett
Director : Keith Gow (Director), David Haythornthwaite (Assistant Director) |
Endoscopic view inside body, VS endocope machinery, photographs of team from Department of Experimental Sugery, Melbourne. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 123798 | 45 secs | 1970s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Hi-tech large computer room. Man seated in front of large screen, map of Australia projected on it with graphics appearing. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 123799 | 46 secs | 1970s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS desert landscape, WS snow fields with skiers, GS man clambering up large rock taking to photograph outback landscape. GS group of young holidaymakers raising glasses to camera, WS Aboriginal group posing for camera, Aboriginal children laughing and looking into camera. VS people posing in their environments: MS man in business suit with sheep in rural setting behind him, group in city, skiers, couple, mayor and aldermen, farm couple; fishermen, outback family, drover, rural class, child in outback, child in field, WS harvesting. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 123800 | 1 min 9 secs | 1970s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Agricultural images projected on screen in computer laboratory showing cattle, sheep and harvesting. Slow motion shots of fruit and vegetable harvesting and people watching behind control panels in laboratory. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 123801 | 1 min 9 secs | 1970s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Pans of hillside at mining site. CUs man using survey equipment. VS mine explosions. VS stock exchange, men (chalkies) on floor. VS geologist walking over bauxite. Experiments in laboratory, overlays of test tubes, mineral heaps, scientists. CUs flames, experiments in laboratory, equipment. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 123802 | 1 min 22 secs | 1970s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Mount Tom Price, WA. Pan past cooking equipment to man sleeping on swag. VS bulldozers clearing land. Large earth moving trucks emptying soil and at work at night. VS miners, underground excavating tunnels. Good shots earthmoving. Aerials over port and minerals ready for loading. VS minerals pouring from chute. VS business meeting of men in suits. Looking at minerals and looking at maps. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 123803 | 2 mins 11 secs | 1970s | Mount Tom Price, Hamersely Ranges, WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Aerials over open cut mine. CU fuse being lit at excavation site and VS men running to ute and driving away as explosion sends plumes of dirt into air. Coal miners out of shaft lift. Stills showing mining community with men relaxing, eating, playing cards, at pub, with friends and family. Stills of children at school and at play, swimming. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 123804 | 1 min 34 secs | 1970s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS studio with people at control desk in front of large screen. CU Sir Ian McLennan talking to camera, managing director of steel making company. Steel making. Eric Hurst (phonetic) CU, spectacle frame maker, inside factory. Arnold Stanfield, mouse trap manufacturer, inside factory. Animation of mouse trap. Inside car assembly plant. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 123805 | 2 mins 40 secs | 1970s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Australian Design Council office. Launch event, people kissing and greeting each other. CU's products eg. toothbrushes, chairs, lamps etc. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 123806 | 56 secs | 1970s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Computer laboratory people watch big screen. Aerial small aircraft zoom into Sydney over Circular Quay. Low swooping, quick aerials over Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Hobart, Canberra. Kaleidoscope image of people walking along street. Women at cafe. Hand held camera closes in on people as they walk along street, various CU's people's reactions. Montage people standing outside their homes & CU's buildings. Hand held camera inside home. Photographs of families and school students. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 123807 | 3 mins 42 secs | 1970s | Sydney, NSW, Australia, Melbourne, Vic, Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia, Perth, WA, Hobart, Tas, Australia, Canberra, ACT | © NFSA | Colour |
VS Children playing in school playgrounds, includes group of girls in mini skirts clapping and singing. Excerpt from film made by school children. Making movie in street, man pretends to be shot by gun. Middle aged couple in home watching television. Photographs people playing musical instruments and experimental music with lawn mowers. Audience clapping. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 123808 | 1 min 52 secs | 1970s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Front on still shot of men in strip club, woman doing striptease. Children watching puppet show. Crowd watching rugby union football, women's tennis. Recreational ice skating, CU's people falling over. Surfers at sea. Older people playing lawn bowls. Excited women watching wrestling match. Horse race played in fast forward. Kaleidoscope image of spectators. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 123809 | 2 mins 43 secs | 1970s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Scenics - horse in river, outback. People in large studio looking like computer room. CU faces as they read printout. CU keyboard as paper printed. Quicktime clip available.
Access No. 123810 | 1 min 9 secs | 1970s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |