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We acknowledge we are on Kaurna Miyurna land. The Dreaming is still living. From the past, in the present, into the future, forever.

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Mt. Olga, Ayres Rock 1952

00:05 An elderly women in a red cardigan attends to a camp, cleaning away food scraps before beginning her own breakfast and drink.

00:14 A younger lady sits on the edge of a truck attempting to fiddle or fix something in her hands.

00:16 The lady with the red cardigan and a man stand at the end of the camp looking out over the green landscape ahead of them.

00:24 A large monolith, Ayers Rock (?), is visible in the far distance.

00:31 Shot of a flat and largely empty small landscape with dead fallen trees. The ground is covered in a thin carpet of pink flowers.

00:39 Close up of these pink flowers growing.

00:46 Grey truck with barrels strapped onto the trailer.

00:52 Women picks leaves from a nearby tree and discusses them with a man from the group.

00:56 Perspective of the front of the car travelling along a thin and dirt track.

00:59 Mount Olga peers through the overarching flora in the foreground.

01:18 Close ups of Mount Olga.

01:47 Mount Olga taken from further back, camera pans right across the monolith.

01:55 Older woman in a maroon jumper and grey trousers stands amongst the desert vegetation.

02:13 Shot of Mount Olga.

02:14 Close up of pink flowers.

02:16 Close up of surface of Mount Olga.

02:30 Close up of bright pink daisies.

02:31 View of valley at the top (?) of Mount Olga and of the rock surface.

02:44 Close yet brief examination of round yellow flowers.

02:54 Someone shows types of berries or grapes to the camera, a close up of the fruit and persons hand visible.

02:58 Shot of one of the mounds of Mount Olga.

03:04 Wide shot of vast, empty landscape with mountains visible in the background. This shot is repeated three times.

03:29 View of valley at the top (?) of Mount Olga and of the rock surface.

03:34 Various close ups of the surface of Mount Olga.

04:02 Close up of white daisies.

04:10 Close up of wattle-brush type plants.

04:20 Panning shots of Mount Olga.

04:32 Panning shots of Mount Olga and the immediate area. A blue truck with a cover on it can be seen at the base of the Mountain with some supplies scattered nearby.

04:43 Close up of a thorny dragon/thorny devil lizard sitting in someone’s hand.

04:53 Panning shots and close ups of Mount Olga.

05:04 Shot taken from up high on Mount Olga, looking down to the greenery below.

05:28 Level shot and close ups of the mounts that make up Mount Olga.

05:58 Shot taken from Mount Olga, viewing Ayers Rock in the near distance.

06:00 Zoomed in perspective of Ayers Rock in the distance.

06:05 Slow panning close up of Mount Olga.

06:09 Ayers Rock in the distance taken from the rocks of Mount Olga.

06:13 Mount Olga rocks in the foreground with Ayers Rock behind in the near distance.

06:27 Focus shot on a large bolder that makes up Mount Olga with shots of the immediate surrounds.

06:50 View of Ayers Rock in the near distance through many dead trees.

06:51 Zoomed in perspective of the previous shot.

07:05 Panning close ups of Mount Olga.

07:18 Shots taken of Mount Olga from a grassy field taken at the base of one of the rocks.

07:35 Woman wearing glasses and grey overalls holds a large rock (?) in his hands for the camera to examine.

07:42 A plane flies overhead.

07:43 Man and woman stand in an open area at the base of Mount Olga with their truck nearby and supplies strewn around.

04:49 The two men stand in a grassy field chatting and looking off into the distance off camera.

07:52 Woman in glasses and grey overalls slowly and steadily walks down a steep slope of Mount Olga.

08:16 Womanin maroon cardigan stands with a group of Australian Aboriginal men, women and children and stands chatting to two of the young children. Everyone is sitting near or under a makeshift tend of bark and logs.

08:21 Mount Connor can be seen close by.

08:25 Panning shot of a town (Alice Springs?) taken from up high and from a distance.

08:48 Perspective of either side of car driving along a dirt track surrounded by greenery and flowers.

09:38 Two camels and a ground of Australian Aboriginal men and children stand nearby looking at the camera and getting the camels ready for a journey.

09:48 A lone camel stands in the middle of the shot.

09:54 Women in maroon cardigan prepares some food for the night with a white bowl and placing a white sticky paste moulded into balls (for English dumpling or damper bread) from the bowl into a pan with the camp fire burning nearby.

10:10 Lid is removed from black pan after lifting it off the fire with rods to revels the cooked bread inside.

10:23 Two men skin kangaroos while woman nearby watched with camera.

10:35 A small farm can be seen in the distance.

10:43 Close up of a road sign; 317 Alice Springs. Coober Pedy 156. Alice Springs points to the left, Coober Pedy points to the right.

10:54 Dark view of the sun setting in the distance, illuminating the sky orange.

10:59 Shot of a river with many overhanding trees and close ups of their reflections in the water.

11:10: Film turns black.

11:22: End of film.

1x Digital Betacam
1 x SP Betacan
2 x DVD

CreatorFrederick Roy Vyse
ControlAA 353/5/15
Date Range1952  -  1952
Quantity   1   Film, 16mm, colour
Series AA353/5