1997 - 1991
Australie / Captation / 1988 / 1h40 / 16 mm / Couleur / VO /
- Réalisation: Walter Saunders, Michael Leigh
- Montage: Michael Leigh
- Production: A.I.A.T.S.I.S.
- Distribution: A.I.A.T.S.I.S., Acton House, Marcus Clarke Street, Acton ACT, GPO Box 553, Canberra ACT 2601, Australie
Ce montage de films d'archives couvre la période 1898-1937. Il comporte différents types d'images correspondant à diverses attitudes et "usages" des Aborigènes. C'est un programme de films des premiers aventuriers du cinéma, des films pour les missions, des expéditions anthropologiques:
1898: Alfred Cort Haddon:
"TORRES STRAIT ISLANDERS"
1901: Walter Baldwin Spencer:
"ARRENTE TRIBE - CHAR LOTIE WALTERS"
1912: Walter Baldwin Spencer:
"ARNHEM LAND - CAMP L1FE"
1913: T.L. West:
"LAKE TYERS MISSION - VICTORIA"
1913: Eric Mjoeberg:
"CAPE YORK - QUEENSLAND"
1917: W.J. Jackson:
"AUSTRALlA'S WILD NOR'WEST"
1922: E. Brooke Nicholls:
"KODAK'S NATIVES AUSTRALlA"
1922: Francis Birtles:
"COORAB ON THE ISLAND OF GHOSTS"
Années 1930: E.O. Stoker, Board for Anthropoligical Researche, University of South Australia:
"PINTUBI MEETING NGALlA", "KANGOROO HUNTING", "THE BOARD AT WORK"
1936: N.F. Nelson, Presbyterian Church:
"A WALKABOUT - L1FE ON A CHURCH RUN ABORIGINAL MISSION"