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In 1978 Narritjin Maymuru and his son Banapana were awarded fellowships as visiting artists at the Australian National University in Canberra. The film shows them and their families at work in their...
An account of an Australian aboriginal people steering their way through an often frustrating process of offical decision-making as seen from their viewpoint, far away from Canberra. Focuses on two men...
After about 16 years in service, Canberra bombers developed cracks in the centre section forgings, which hold the wings onto the aircraft. This programme invenstgates what caused the cracks and who has been...
An account of the Australian Northern Land Council’s inaugural meeting in January 1977. At the same time the council met traditional owners of the Alligator Rivers region in the Northern Territory to...
About the preparations and organisational difficulties of the final and most involved stage of the sequence of mortuary rites practised by the Anbarra group of Australian aborigines. The conduct of each part...
Minma has killed a kangaroo and he carries it back to the camp where he digs a cooking trench, cooks it in hot embers and then distributed. Minma’s wives are involved with this process only at the time of...
The men are shown hunting emus from behind a hide. The women collect and grind ‘mulga’ seeds, collect grubs from the trunk of a gum tree and cook them, and collect the fruit of the ‘ngaru’. During...
The definitive collection of twenty official Royal Air Force archive films, most of them previously unreleased. Presented in chronological order these training, information, recruitment and instructional...
Ethnographic record of a pukumani (bereavement) ceremony of the Tiwi of Melville Island, off the coast of Australia. Made at the request of the Mangatopi family of Snake Bay, the ceremony was held for the...
Narritjin Maymuru talks about his ancestral lands at Djarrakpi, one of the most important sacred sites of his Manggalili clan of the Yolngu people of north-east Arnham Land. Narritjin explains the meanings...
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