Sunny and the Dark Horse

Synopsis: A true story about a country family’s gradual involvement and growing passion for the sport of ‘picnic racing’. Sunny Bancroft is the manager of an Aboriginal-run cattle station in New South Wales. With his non-Aboriginal wife, his daughters and his mother-in-law, he searches for a winning horse to triumph at the local circuit, but things don’t always to his way. Filmed as they happened, the events were later fashioned into a narrative in Sunny’s distinctive story-telling style. This is a film about Australian rural society and one Aboriginal man’s determination to succeed.
Language: English
Country: Australia
Medium: Video; Videocassette. VHS. col. 86 min.
Year of production: 1986
Availability: Sale; 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)
Subjects: Anthropology
Keywords: Aboriginal peoples; Australia; horse racing

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Notes: The Institute sells more than 250 anthropology and ethnology titles on video and DVD, including some produced by students and staff of the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology. There is also a large library of internationally produced film and video productions from which items may be borrowed within the UK.

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