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Last Tasmanian, The (1978 Film)

Director

Tom Haydon

Producer

Ray Barnes; Roger Fauriat

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

In 1803 when the British arrived to establish a penal colony there were some 4000 aborigines on the island of Tasmania. By 1876, after a few decades of systematic persecution and atrocity, they had been...

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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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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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Reef, The (1977 Video)

Director

John Heyer

Producer

John Heyer

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 58 min.

An account of the natural history of the Great Barrier Reef, its discovery by French and British navigators in the 18th century, and the threat posed to the reef’s unique formation and fauna by ocean...

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Australian Offshore Platforms (1976 Video)

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. U-matic. col. 25 min.

Documents the construction and placement of a steel oil platform designed to be permanently fixed on the sea floor up to 80 kilometres off the Victorian coast in the Bass Strait. The design had to last up to...

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Assault on the Sepik (1974 Video)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 19 min.

All species of pine trees are susceptible to attack by the wood wasp, ‘Sirex noctillio’. When Sirex was first discovered on the Australian mainland in 1961, the softwood plantations of Southern Australia...

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Big Bommie (1974 Film)

Producer

Colin Willcock

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Introductory or background material for courses in marine biology.*

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Coniston Muster: Scenes from a Stockman’s Life (1972 Video)

Director

Roger Sandall

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 28 min., 1999 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) (video)

On Coniston Station, north-west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia, cattle are mustered and yarded. The lease is held by a European, but the stockmen are Anmatjara people, whose...

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Black Australians (1971 Film)

Producer

Desmond Wilcox

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

For the aborigines in Australia there is concern as well as apathy, a problem for a government unused to racial issues, and a fierce militancy with black overtones already familiar in other parts of the world.

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According to the Evidence 1 (1970 Film)

Subject

Law

Distribution

Film (16mm)

This film was made for the Faculty of Law at Monash University as an introduction to the law of evidence. Its aim is to explore the possibilities of film as an aid to teaching law. Based on the fact that it...

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