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North Trip Part 1 1946: Geographical, Abirea, Alice Springs and Hermannsburg

Archive Collections / Frederick Roy Vyse / Series AA353/5 / North Trip Part 1 1946: Geographical, Abirea, Alice Springs and Hermannsburg

This film is a demonstration of the arduous journey to parts of Central Australia. Filmed by Frederick Vyse, this film highlights a brief example of Australian Aboriginal practices at the time surrounding daily life and the integration of Aboriginal peoples into wider society through the use of Aboriginal missions, such as Finke River Mission.

00:00 Part One

00:00 Kodachrome

00:15 5,000 miles through Northern Australia by train, camel and car

00:25 Todmorton Bob of ‘Erinqa’ and Ern Becker load their camels at Abminga

00:30 Close up of two camels sit on the ground.

00:35 Aboriginal man in khaki clothing and a wide-brimmed hat attend to a camel who is yawning widely.

00:43 Close up of man attending and packing camel.

00:49 Man appears to clean dirt and sand out from under the camel.

00:51 Close up of camel’s face, yawning.

00:54 Two camels stand up and immediately sit down again.

01:03 Older Aboriginal man holding two spears in his left hand climbs on top of the first sitting camel.

01:07 Wide shot of two camels sitting on the ground with the elder Aboriginal name sitting on the first one, holding spears.

01:10 Camels stand up and begin to leave.


01:12 A heard of camels stand in front of the camera.

01:17 Three young Aboriginal children lead of the camels off camera.

01:24 White man in a blue shirt and tie climbs on a sitting camel. Another white man in a trilby hat and long black coat stands behind them to the far left. Camel stands up.

01:32 Camel sits down.

01:38 A long line of camels is lead across the desert. A white man sits on the first one while two aboriginal men either side of the line of camels leads them along.


01:46 We visit Sir Sydney Kidman’s Cattle Station Eringa

01:52 Two Aboriginal women and one white women sit in trailer of a truck looking at the camera.

02:00 The two Aboriginal women run across a field away from the camera before walking back.

02:13 A herd of camel gather near a river.

02:30 Scenery shot of riverbank.

02:36 Four Aboriginal children sit on the ground looking at the camera. One girl in a pink skirt is lying down. Behind her the legs of a fifth Aboriginal person can be seen in the background wearing a blue dress.

02:38 Crossing the dry bed of the River Goyder we motor to Finke via New Crown station

02:45 A truck travels across a wide shot of grassy field scattered with large leafless trees.

02:49 Two camels, an Aboriginal man in a blue shirt and two Aboriginal children stand to his right looking at the camera.

02:56 Green trucks drives directly towards the camera.

03:11 Green trucks drives away from the camera over a dirt road.

03:14 A truck unloads rubble on the ground. A white man can be seen in the driver’s seat as an Aboriginal man stands on the side of the truck.

03:25 Going west to Adnanta Water via Bloodwood and Umbearra we halt at mallee bore.

03:28 Five white men use supervising and operating a large drilling machine.

03:36 The camera pans right away from the machine and men towards two green trucks parked nearby.

03:38 A bright campfire burns in the night with a white man barely sitting just behind it.

03:41 Alice Springs from Anzac Hill and Billygoat Hill.

03:50 Wide panning shot of Alice Springs.

04:38 Shot of a dirt track uphill leading to a stone obelisk monument with a car and man to its right.

04:44 Traveling down a road of the town.

04:50 Camera pans right across the town.

5:07 Hermannsburg or Finke River Mission was established over 70 years ago near the Krichauff Ranges

05:13 Horse and carriages travel along an open grassy field.

05:27 Close up of man driving the horse and carriage with two horses tied to the back of the carriage and travelling along.

05:51 Wide shot of field with a herd of cows that walk past the camera to the left.

06:12 Two men of horses steer the cows past the camera.

06:26 Four men on horseback approach the camera.

06:33 Wide shot of flat desert scenery.

06:36 Wide shot of the mission in desert scenery.

06:39 Wide shot of flat land and mountains.

06:56 Close up panning shot of the mission and its white sandstone buildings.

07:08 Close up of Aboriginal children from the mission lining up. All are wearing grey mission dresses with red trim around the neck.

07:16 But for those early Missionaries and others, the Arunta tribe would probably be extinct today.

07:24 Children of the Finke River Mission are lined up in an assembly with the arms reaching to each other’s shoulders.

07:29 The children look at the camera and run of out shot to the left.

07:40 Close up of a white lady in a green cardigan.

07:47 Children in a dark room sitting at desks.

07:48 Close up of a young Aboriginal boy showing a drawing to the camera.

07:52 A large group of Aboriginal children sitting on the ground outside. Boys and girls are sitting in separate groups.

08:00 An elderly white man in a blue cardigan and two ladies (one in a pith helmet) stand in front of a building outside looking over the children.

08:05 Children place bowls back on racks in a cupboard outside.

08:11 Children line up and receive food before walking away off camera.

08:24 Wide shot of Aboriginal children and teenagers standing in front of a hut with an elderly Aboriginal man to the left of the group in a wide-brimmed hat. There are dogs walking around near the front left of the shot.

08:26 Two Aboriginal girls standing next to hut, one wears a blue dress who is bending down peering inside the hut. The other girl wears a brown skirt and blue blouse, standing looking at the camera.

08:29 Children stand in front of a hut with the elderly Aboriginal man standing over inspecting a dead kangaroo.

08:31 Close up of a small fire pit with wood.

08:32 A quick close up of hands preparing some type of suture or sewing implement.

08:33 Many children climb on and stand on play equipment that spins around.

03:35 Very quick shot of mission children lining up and sliding down a tall metal slide.

08:36 Screen turns black.

08:48 Screen turns grey.

09:11 End of film.

1x Digital Betacam
1 x SP Betacan
2 x DVD

CreatorFrederick Roy Vyse
ControlAA 353/5/21
Date Range1946  -  1946
Quantity   1   Film, 16mm, colour
Series AA353/5