00:00 Man in blue jumper standing with women in black dress. Smiling at camera standing next to a truck.

00:08 Close up of couple

00:16 Woman stands laughing next to a young child with a green truck on the right hand side. She moves to rest on the trailer of the truck, filled with goods for their trip.

00:20 Man in blue jumper comes into shot to the right, smiling at camera.

00:21 View of the road driving along. Largely desert and mountains in view. White car drives towards camera on the right side of shot.

00:26 Changes view from driving to a turn in the road around a large tree. Car continues to travel along the road.

00:40 Come to a fork in the road with a street sign for Adelaide. Car takes this turn off on a dirt road with many large water filled pot holes in the road.

01:04 Side view from car of a field with trees and mountains in the background.

01:12 Car travels along dirt track, travels through a waterlogged section of the road.

01:19 Kangaroo hops across the shot from right to left.

01:23 Scene of desert trees and rocks, camera pan towards the right.

01:28 Scene of desert rocks, trees and mountains, camera pan towards the left.

01:36 Brown truck travels through bus from the right of the shot.

01:52 Man in blue jumper stands briefly and walks out of shot.

01:59 Green truck parked at base of rock formation with man in blue jumper squats at the top. He then stands up.


02:07 View of truck travelling through desert passing old shacks in the distance.

02:12 Brown truck has stalled and is stuck in the mud. A man in overalls and a shovel attempts to release the truck from the back left of the shot.

02:17 View of truck travelling along through the desert.

02:24 Green truck becomes stuck in the mud.

02:28 Two aboriginal men in tan trousers and wide brimmed hats. One places a white cloth on the ground, the other stand on the back of a green truck.

02:31 Aboriginal man in tan trousers, dark blazer and wide brimmed hat leads three camels across the screen. Camels have equipment and provisions piles on their backs.

02:37 Wide shot of man leading camels across scenery.

02:42 Man attempts to mount a dark horse. Spins around a few times with horse before successful. Large fences in background with a second horse just visible behind the fence on the right of the screen.

02:47 Man on now on horseback proceeds towards camera with whip in his hand.

02:49 Man dusts down horse with blanket.

02:55 Man dusts down horse with white blanket, view from opposite side of horse. Horses left leg is tied under its body.

02:57 Two Aboriginal men lean on the trailer of a blue car and look at the camera.

03:05 Grey truck tows the blue car of the mud across the screen.

03:11 Shot of road entirely waterlogged.

03:16 Four Aboriginal men and one white man walk around behind a brown truck.

03:19 Brown truck and spade stuck in the mud. White man with shoes off, feel covered in med rests of the trailer of the truck, he bends down to pick something up before sitting on the ground.

03:24 Brown truck stuck in mud. Shot taken from the front of the truck. Two Aboriginal men standing next to the truck, one of them is sitting at the front of the truck.

03:31 Two Aboriginal men and two white men attend to the rear of a blue truck.

03:35 Older man in checked brown blazer enters the shot from the left.

03:36 Blue truck tows brown truck out of the mud. Aboriginal man stands in the middle watching.

03:44 Shot of desert scenery with cows standing in the background.

03:47 Man stands next to a truck with a camera on a tripod, filming something out of shot. He looks behind him at the car to talk to someone on the other side of the car.

03:51 White man in brown vest with camera and tripod behind truck. Aboriginal man in wide brimmed hat sits in the trailer of the truck. A second Aboriginal man in jeans and a brown jumper enters the shot from the right and climbs in the truck.

03:54 Man in brown vest uses video camera on tripod. It is tilted down to the right on the shot. He is filming an Aboriginal man dressed in a khaki shirt and trousers, holding a stick.

04:00 Aboriginal man squatting down using a stick and his hands to dig a hole in the ground, alternating between his hand and the stick.

04:04 Same Aboriginal man digging the whole, this time with larger stick. To his right, the camera man and camera film him digging the hole.

04:08 Different angle of man digging the hole with the large stick. The hole is waist deep.

04:14 The Aboriginal man is standing up-right in the dug pout hole. He is scooping dirt out with his hands and throwing it over his shoulder. Next to him on the ground lay a piece of bark.

04:23 He places small insects on the bark taken from the dug hole.

04:32 Close up of small insects on bark taken from hole.

04:40 Close up of Aboriginal man’s hand next to the small insects on the bark.

04:45 Close up of man taking these insects away from the bark

04:46 Scene of Aboriginal man sitting in the hole eating the small insects

5:04 Aboriginal man sways tree back and forth to uproot it from the ground.

05:12 Aboriginal man sits next to the uprooted tree.

05:16 He starts to dig a hole with a stick where the tree has been removed from.

05:26 Close up of three witchetty grubs on a piece of bark on the ground.

05:46 Close up of flora.

06:00 Aboriginal man now redressed in khaki clothing walks across shot from right to left.

06:07 Wide shot of a field of purple flowers. Man in red plaid shirt sits at the right of the shot before standing up and leaving.

6:14 Camera pans from left to right across the scene of a blue car and houses. A man and women stand a fence in the middle of the shot talking to each other in front of a white house.

06:18 Aboriginal man stands as a small fire burns in front of a hut made of twigs and trees.

06:26 Shot of Aboriginal family in front of hut made of twigs and trees. There are two women, one man sitting on the ground, four children and one baby.

06:34 Shot of Aboriginal man squatting under hut made from grass. He wears a dark shirt and brown trousers. A white dog stands behind him in the hut.

06:37 Green car stuck in the mud. A man in a long green trench coat and another in a white coat get in the car. Camera pans to the left to show a truck ready to tow the car out of the mud.

06:41 Man in long trench coat wipes the windscreen of the car stuck in the mud.

06:43 Elderly Aboriginal man sits on the ground tying red string around his head into his hair.

06:48 Wide shot of Aboriginal man sitting next to a fire.

06:58 Same Aboriginal man sitting next to a fire adjusting a spear with his hands and between his teeth.

07:19 Elderly Aboriginal man standing in a largely empty area holding spear.

07:22 Elderly Aboriginal man slowing walks from the left of the screen, holding spear high in both hands.

07:38 Elderly Aboriginal Man throws spear, killing a kangaroo.

07:42 Spear is retrieved from kangaroo.

07:48 Man places kangaroo on this shoulder and walks away.

08:03 Younger bearded Aboriginal man carried tied up kangaroo on his head, smiling to the camera.

08:16 Man removes the guts of the kangaroo by hand.

08:39 The kangaroo’s stomach is sutured.

09:10 A fire made with a large pile of twigs and sticks burns as two dead kangaroos lay beside it.

09:15 Close up of fire, now burning higher.

09:22 Kangaroo is placed on the coals of the fire as an aboriginal man sits next to it.

09:37 Elderly Aboriginal man stands, holding spear in both hands. Shakes the spear.

10:02 Aboriginal lady in a red dress sits next to a small fire.

10:09 A second Aboriginal lady in a white dress collects twigs and sticks, carrying them on her head. She is followed by a small white dog that starts digging in the dirt.

10:28 Aboriginal lady carrying firewood on her head walks back towards the fire, regularly stopping to pick up sticks with her foot to add to the pile.

10:52 Close up of ladies foot picking up small sticks and twigs from the ground.

11:03 Wide shot of the two Aboriginal ladies sitting at the fire placing firewood on it.

11:10 The two ladies hold smoking pieces of wood from the fire and walk away.

11:18 Shot of green truck. Camera pans to the right. A black dog is on the trailer of the truck with two Aboriginal men in tan trousers and a wide-brimmed had stares at the camera.

11:24 Close up of black dog sitting on the back of the trailer of the truck.

11:28 One of these Aboriginal men walk towards the camera holding a large dead bird. He holds it up to the camera.

11:36 Two Aboriginal men walk towards the camera carrying large dead birds.

11:43 View of flat and sparse scenery as car travels along road.

12:19 End of film [no intertitle].

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