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Country Outcasts

Aboriginal country and western musicians from Melbourne travel to central Australia to entertain tribal Aboriginal communities.
Series : Frontiers Downunder | Episode : 2 | Year : 1977 | Total Duration : 28 Minutes | Producer : Peter Johnson
Director : David Roberts |
Opening titles Frontiers Downunder series
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Access No. 133295 | 35 secs | 1970s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Interior Grandview Hotel, track following couple entering. CU Aboriginal singer Harry Williams and group Country Outcasts on stage, Harry on stage into microphone. Talent night for Aboriginal people to join band, young women gets up from table and comes on stage to sing. LV people sitting at table listening.
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Access No. 133303 | 55 secs | 1970s | Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Ted Egan in striped shirt on telephone, Mac Silva in red telephone box talking on telephone, comes out and walks down inner city street where Aboriginal children playing, man hammering exterior house. Ted Egan in Aboriginal Arts Board office talked to woman arranging tour for band Country Outcasts on behalf of Aboriginal Arts Board .
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Access No. 133304 | 30 secs | 1970s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU boomerangs and spears hanging on wall pan to other Aboriginal art pieces and photographs. Ted Egan walking though office of Aboriginal Arts Board, zoom in to poster hanging on door advertising tour by Country Outcasts.
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Access No. 133306 | 15 secs | 1970s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Automatic doors opening in airport terminal, Aboriginal singer Harry Williams entering carrying bags. Joins other band members from Country Outcasts at Ansett check in desk. Men light cigarettes as they have tickets checked. Old style mechanised Ansett flight departures board. Woman in orange uniform writing on tickets. Men chat,
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Access No. 133307 | 49 secs | 1970s | Brisbane?, Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
At airport check in desk, CU woman tying tags to guitar case, conveyor belt. CU Wilga Williams chatting to woman in orange uniform at check in desk. Ansett departures hall, Harry and Wilga Williams from Aboriginal country band the Country Outcasts onto escalator.
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Access No. 133308 | 29 secs | 1970s | Brisbane?, Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Split screen to show Harry and Wilga Williams from Aboriginal country band the Country Outcasts on escalator and through airport, other screen shows Aboriginal singer Auriel Andrews checking in at another airport with two small children. Split screen two Ansett aircraft taking off into blue sky.
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Access No. 133311 | 33 secs | 1970s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Aboriginal singer Auriel Andrews on aircraft with her two small children, Serena and baby Rudy. Harry and Wilga Williams from Aboriginal country band the Country Outcasts sitting behind. CU Auriel Andrews nursing toddler on knee drinking from bottle.
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Access No. 133312 | 52 secs | 1970s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Pan along rocky outback dried river bed landscape to Aboriginal girl (Auriel Andrews' daughter Serena) walking. Track following footprints in sand, CU girl looking up with look of fright / amazement, runs off holding shoes in hands. Girl and woman walk together, LAS Aboriginal men walking past. LV girl and woman walking through Aboriginal settlement, people by humpies.
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Access No. 133388 | 57 secs | 1970s | Todd River, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Looking from ground to Ansett aircraft landing at Alice Springs, heat haze shimmer. People standing outside airport next to Alice Springs sign. Aboriginal people greeting singer Auriel Andrews, mother crying. Other members of Country Outcasts band being greeted by Ted Egan including Harry and Wilga Williams and Buster.
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Access No. 133389 | 1 min 8 secs | 1970s | Alice Springs, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
HAS Alice Springs main street, cars and Land Rover with Country Outcasts banner. Tourist Tshirts in shop, ÒDon't knock the Rock, I've climbed itÓ pan to poster on window advertising the Country Outcasts band. Map of Australia superimposed showing position of Alice Springs. People looking at poster.
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Access No. 133390 | 42 secs | 1970s | Alice Springs, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Pan across sports ground in Alice Springs, Aboriginal band Country Outcasts setting up stage on back of trailer by Ted Hayes Memorial Stand. Mac Silva setting up drum kit. Night shot, CU Silva at drums singing blues song. VS audience listening, some Aboriginal, some non-indigenous. Wilga and Harry Williams on stage playing guitars with Silva ÒMidnight SpecialÓ
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Access No. 133391 | 2 mins 34 secs | 1970s | Traeger Park / Oval, Alice Springs, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
HAS Land Rover and two other vehicles carrying Country Outcasts band along dirt road through outback landscape, quite green. CU Mac Silva driving. POV from vehicles to trees, LAS as vehicles pass camera. LS vehicles through landscape. LAS to vehicles approaching camera.
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Access No. 133392 | 59 secs | 1970s | NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Singer Ted Egan driving with young man (Buster?) from Country Outcasts band seated next to him. Aerial shot of Uluru. Night shot band playing at Traeger Park in Alice Springs. Tourists at Uluru looking at it in distance. LV Uluru with flowers in FG. HAS Land Rover with Country Outcasts banner. Emu walking in outback. People at Uluru. Band on stage.
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Access No. 133393 | 35 secs | 1970s | Uluru; Traeger Park/ Oval, Alice Springs, NT, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
POV from moving vehicle to rocky landscape. Bald headed male tourist climbs towards camera on top of Uluru, takes photograph. Good shot of kangaroos of various sizes across arid landscape. HAS Land Rover with Country Outcasts banner driving. LV pull back Uluru. Night shot singer Ted Egan singing on stage in Alice Springs with Country Outcasts singing about Uluru.
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Access No. 133394 | 28 secs | 1970s | Uluru; Traeger Park/ Oval, Alice Springs, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Map superimposed over shot of three vehicles carrying the band Country Outcasts into Hermannsburg. Singers Ted Egan, Auriel Andrews and Harry and Wilga Williams being greeted by Aboriginal singer Gus Williams. Auriel and Wilga hold babies. Band members chatting to children and people gathered round, being handed tickets to concert.
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Access No. 133395 | 1 min 7 secs | 1970s | Hermannsburg, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Night interior Country Outcasts band on stage playing including Harry & Wilga Williams with guitars playing instrumental, Mac Silva on drums. Good shots Aboriginal children dancing. VS Aboriginal people in audience. Aboriginal singer Gus Williams on stage with guitar singing about Albert Namatjira. VS audience including good profile shots of Namatjira's elderly brothers listening.
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Access No. 133396 | 1 min 40 secs | 1970s | Hermannsburg, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Interior vehicle, Aboriginal singer Harry Williams driving with Wilga Williams, Redfern street, good shots of Aboriginal people walking in street. Elderly woman with trolley outside supermarket, market stall. Ext Aboriginal Medical Centre shop front, Harry Williams walking out. Ext Black Theatre Arts and Cultural Centre. Harry Williams walks out pull back to reveal street.
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Access No. 133397 | 56 secs | 1970s | Redfern, Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Aboriginal singers Auriel Andrews and Ted Egan clapping and dancing with Aboriginal children in hall with band Country Outcasts on stage playing. VS Aboriginal people dancing, CU Harry Williams singing.
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Access No. 133398 | 1 min 14 secs | 1970s | Hermannsburg, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Man sitting outside building at Aboriginal settlement, woman sweeping, elderly man seated on ground, woman at tap, men in vehicles passing humpies, man sitting on oil drum smoking.
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Access No. 133399 | 33 secs | 1970s | Hermannsburg?, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Yeundumu School sign on side of truck. pan to Ted Egan, Harry & Wilga Williams from Country Outcasts band standing and talking with group from Yeundumu Aboriginal community on road. CU Wilga Williams, good shots of Aboriginal children singing. Singer Auriel Andrews and Mac Silva clapping along. Children look at Polaroid camera, children climb onto truck, shake hands & wave to band members, truck drives off.
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Access No. 133400 | 1 min 44 secs | 1970s | Near Yeundumu, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Burnt off ground smouldering, three vehicles carrying members of Country Outcasts drive past. CU Wilga Williams in vehicle. Aerial vehicles in outback landscape. Map superimposed showing route from Alice Springs to Hermannsburg, Papunya and Yuendumu. Three vehicles past camera, flames burning. POV from Harry Williams driving to burning off. Aerial vehicles driving past burning, circle to show landscape.
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Access No. 133401 | 1 min 14 secs | 1970s | NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
VS Country Outcasts on stage with Ted Egan and Harry Williams holding hands out to children and pulling them onto stage, Auriel Andrews dancing, children in stage. Land rover with Country Outcasts banner parked in bush, CU flowers. Auriel Andrews taking photographs. Sun setting behind hills.
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Access No. 133402 | 1 min 2 secs | 1970s | NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
VS Singer Auriel Andrews on stage singing ÒBaby BlueÓ, Wilga Williams and Country Outcasts band behind. VS Aboriginal people in audience listening including children.
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Access No. 133403 | 1 min 43 secs | 1970s | © NFSA | Colour |
Young man from Country Outcasts band (Buster) watching Aboriginal men from Yeundumu community painting bodies in preparation for corroboree, Ted Egan and other members watching. Good CU's earth pressed onto bodies. Buster taking Polaroid photograph. VS members of band watching corroboree.
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Access No. 133404 | 1 min 14 secs | 1970s | Yeundumu, NT, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Harry Williams, Ted Egan and others from Country Outcasts band singing with guitar impromptu with Aboriginal people from Yeundumu community, children laughing and singing. Singer Auriel Andrews dancing with man with traditional paint and decoration for corroboree. VS group laughing & singing together. Aerial shot of group.
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Access No. 133405 | 30 secs | 1970s | Yeundumu, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Interior vehicle, singer Ted Egan driving with young man (Buster?) from Country Outcasts band next to him. POV from car to dirt road ahead. Aerial three vehicles with Country Outcasts banner along long, straight, dirt road in outback landscape. POV from car to dirt road ahead. POV from car to side. Wooden signpost to Yeundumu, vehicles pass by.
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Access No. 133406 | 1 min | 1970s | NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
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