Ngadlu tampinthi ngadlu Kaurna Miyurna yartangka. Munaintya puru purruna ngadlu-itya. Munaintyanangku yalaka tarrkarriana tuntarri.

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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00:04 Father Baker and I motor through Wilmington and Horrocks Pass to Port Augusta.

00:13 Wide shot of largely barren street with some trees and three houses lining the right side of the street.

00:15 A man walks by a church situated on the corner a road.

00:19 A man wearing a dark suit and a trilby walks towards the camera, holding up a bottle of beer towards the camera.

00:21 Car travels down a winding road towards hills in the near distance.

00:46 Wide shot from the perspective of the left hand side of the car. Open, largely empty landscape passes by.

00:50 Man walks along a wharf (presumably Port Augusta) and sits on a pole at the end of the wharf looking out with his back to the camera.

00:56 Wide shot of the opposite side of the port with a factory expelling large amounts of dark smoke can be seen before the camera briefly pans towards the left.

01:00 Rows of high piles of logs and wood.

01:06 Church.

01:11 Car travels down dirt road with mountain in the background and a small white road sign visible.

01:17 A visit to the Bishop at Gladstone.

01:19 Wide shot of the town of Gladstone that briefly pans towards the left.

01:24 House stands alone with a priest (presumably the Bishop) sitting on the near end of the front porch.

01:30 Close up of Bishop reading while sitting on the edge of the porch.

01:34 Horses pull a large carriage-load up a hill.

01:40 Two priests open a farm gate before picking fruit from a tree.

01:48 The younger of the two priests cuts open the fruit.

01:48 We reached Orroroo in time for Sunday school picnic.

01:54 Children dressed in white line up in front of the camera.

02:12 Shots of the outside of a house, showing the garden area.

02:14 Steeple of the church, shot pans down towards the open door of the church.

02:22 Many children shit on the back of a wagon. One boy near the front swings a cricket bat in his hands.

02:27 More people are piled onto another wagon, this time teenagers and young adults.

02:23 Young boys play a game of cricket in an open field.

02:36 The girls play on a swing hanging from a tree. A teenager and a young girl stand on the swing.

02:40 A large group of children sitting and having a picnic and being attended to by adults who are handing out food and drink.

02:47 Picnic table with food and drink. People stand around supervising the children having their picnic.

02:51 Children continue having their picnic lunch as others play on the tree swing in the background.

02:54 Women serving students their picnic snacks and drink.

03:02 A group of young girls run down a dirt track towards the camera, stopping just before it.

03:06 A group of slightly older girls have a running race. This is followed by the young boys holding a running race in the same place.

03:18 An older group of boys have a running race before a group of ladies enjoy a three-legged race down the track.

03:28 I am introduced to an echidna or spiny anteater.

03:33 Close up of an echidna sits in the grass.

03:37 Echidna slowly waddles away.

03:40 Close up of Echidna from profile view.

03:44 Close up of Echidna from front view.

03:52 Echidna has curled into a ball at the feet of someone nearby.

03:57 Echidna walks away towards a nearby garden.

04:17 Echidna enters its burrow.

04:29 Nearby was Mrs. Kangaroo with joey in pouch.

04:36 Two kangaroos in a fenced off area. One lying on the ground to the right and the other standing, hunched over to the left.

04:40 Kangaroo lying on the ground stands up to revel a joey in her pouch.

04:43 Kangaroo hops away from the camera.

04:45 Man to the left of the shot is playing with the small kangaroo.

04:54 Kangaroo looks inside its pouch before scratching it body.

05:11 Kangaroo cleans it paws.

05:13 Female kangaroo with joey in pouch hops around.

05:22 Kangaroo with joey in pouch stands to the left nibbling on some tree leaves. Another kangaroo stands to the right eating some tree leaves held out on a branch by a man nearby before a third kangaroo joins them.

05:38 Close up of kangaroo standing to the side with joey clearly visible in her pouch before she lies down.

05:48 On to Willochra Creek from which diocese gets its name.

05:56 Camera pans to the left across a largely barren land of small dirt hills and ridges.

05:59 A man climbs up onto a platform or part of a bridge before crossing the platform to join someone standing of the other side looking out.

06:02 On returning we passed a harvester and donkey Martin.

06:07 A man climbs on his horse drawn harvester before sitting down and taking off across the farmland.

06:38 Horses pull along a heavy carriage full of logs and wood.

06:40 Close up of stockman(?)

06:44 Front right horse struggles to make a start pulling the load before heading off down the road.

06:48 A carriage drawn by many horses passes by, piled high with logs and wood.

06:55 Rain soon made the track unpleasant.

06:58 Car seems to be stuck on a watery, dirt road. Man stands to the right of the car, attending to it.

07:01 Two men stand near the car having tea, a hot drinks flask is perched on the bonnet of the car.

07:04 Wide shot of surrounding grassy land. Car slowly travels along a faint track in the grass, passing through numerous large puddles in the road.

07:20 Peter waiting our return expressed disapproval of puppy.

07:23 Cat (Peter?) and black puppy sit on a ledge on a veranda. Cat swipes at puppy, forcing the puppy for fall from the ledge.

07:27 Mickey did his best to fill Peter’s place.

07:31 Kitten (Mickey?) walks around and plays with a ball on the ground.

07:45 Kitten plays with some grass near a pot plant.

07:47 Resumes playing with the ball.

07:58 Mickey the kitten starts clawing and trying to peer through the hinge on a door outside.

08:04 Peace at the end of a 700 mile trip.

08:10 Wide shot of a house with an older women going inside.

08:13 Priest smoking a pipe and a black dog to his right exit the house.

08:17 Priest brings a chair onto the porch from inside the house. Dog is at his feet.

08:19 Shot of chair on the porch as dog walks by and exits the shot before appearing to the left of the chair.

08:24 Priest carrying some papers appears from a doorway at the end of the porch. He takes a seat on the chair before moving to forward towards the sun and goes through his papers as a cat exists the house from the left onto the porch.

08:34 Priest points and smiles at the cat before giving it a gentle pat on the head. The cat walks under the chair and the priest holds up the front legs of the cat towards the sun.

08:38 The dog returns to investigate the cat and the priest.

08:46 Film turns black.

08:51 End of film.

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CreatorFrederick Roy Vyse
ControlAA 353/5/19
Quantity   1   Film, 16mm, colour
Series AA353/5