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  1. Narritjin in Canberra (1981 Film)

    Director
    Ian Dunlop
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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...

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  2. Collum Calling Canberra (1984 Video)

    Director
    David McDougall; Judith McDougall
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale (video - RAI), Videocassette. sd. col. 59 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    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...

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  3. Something in the Air (1984 Video)

    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    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...

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  4. To Get That Country (1978 Video)

    Director
    David MacDougall
    Producer
    David MacDougall
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 70 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    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...

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  5. Waiting for Harry (1980 Film, Video)

    Director
    Kim McKenzie
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale Hire, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 57 minutes), £50.00

    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...

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  6. Cooking Kangaroo (1967 Film)

    Director
    Ian Dunlop
    Producer
    John Martin-Jones
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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...

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  7. At Patanitja Clay Plan (1967 Film)

    Director
    Ian Dunlop
    Producer
    John Martin-Jones
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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...

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  8. Royal Air Force in the Early 1970s, The: The Definitive Short Films Collection (2012)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 375 minutes), £13.99

    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...

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  9. Goodbye Old Man (1977 Film, Video)

    aka: Good-Bye Old Man

    Director
    David MacDougall
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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...

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  10. My Country, Djarrakpi: An Introduction to a Clan Homeland by Narritjin Maymuru (1980 Video)

    aka: My Country, Djarrakpi

    Director
    Ian Dunlop
    Producer
    Ian Dunlop
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 15 min., 1999 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    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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