FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

CUs stills of native Australian flowers. WS stills of various Australian landscapes. Stills of native flowers from National Botanic Gardens. Archival plans of Canberra with small photograph of Walter Burley Griffin laid on top. VS old plans.

Archival B&W footage of housing development in Canberra, cars on streets. B&W 1949 still of Prime Minister Ben Chifley planting tree.

CU hands leafing through colour book on Australian plants. WS across heath to Jervis Bay, NSW. Pan across white wildflowers growing in Jervis Bay Annex of National Botanic Gardens.

1970 B&W photograph of Prime Minister John Gorton officially opening the Canberra Botanic Gardens.

Sign with renamed National Botanic Gardens, bush and Black Mountain tower visible behind. VS horticulture team driving on dirt road and on field trip searching for propagation material in bush. VS specimens as cutting material being collected then wrapped in wet newspaper by creek. CUs pressing specimens in on-site press, zoom to field data being recorded. Horticulturists driving into Herbarium car park, staff mounting dried specimens on cardboard. Staff studying specimens under microscope, consulting books, storing files of specimens on shelves. Pan of cuttings nursery, CUs propagators handling fresh material. VS seedlings in greenhouse, germinating beds. Plants and orchids in glasshouse. VS planting out Kangaroo-paw (Anigozanthos) plant in rockery. Tilt from sign to Kennedia species.

VS horticulture lab in Botanic Gardens, CUs test-tube grown plant clones, herbarium botanist taking plant sample and using microscope and drawing plant. Schoolchildren gathered around guide in garden. Ranger talking to family around tree. MS horticulturalist giving advice over phone, zoom to publications in display room. WS couple walking on path through forested area, CU to leaflets regarding trails, signs and labels on Aboriginal trail. WS nature trail, VS people following trail through natural bushland. GS acacia (wattle) grove, rainforest gully , mist spry and CU dripping leaves. VS ranger and couple birdwatching, CU grey fantail on branch. Family looking at waratahs, CU yellow flowers on shrub