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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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North Trip Part 3 1946: Witchetty Grubs, Arltunga and Simpson's Gap

Archive Collections / Frederick Roy Vyse / Series AA353/5 / North Trip Part 3 1946: Witchetty Grubs, Arltunga and Simpson's Gap

This film highlights the everyday practices of Australian Aboriginal people living in Central Australia. This includes life on the land and lived experiences on the missions, specifically for children. Demonstrating the natural beauty of this area, this film exhibits many examples of Australia’s natural and diverse vegetation.

00:00 Part III

00:05 Witchetty grubs are found in the roots of the Acacia and are eaten raw or roasted in the hot ashes.

00:12 Four Aboriginal women sit at the base of a tree, digging into the ground with large sticks.

00:18 Close up of sticks digging into the ground. One woman picks up a bundle of roots from a dug hole and pick out a witchetty grub.

00:30 Close up of women digging for witchetty grubs and placing them on a wooden plate.

00:36 Close up of witchetty grubs on the wooden plate.

00:44 Group of Aboriginal children sit around a fire cooking the witchetty grubs.

00:49 Close up of witchetty grubs being placed near the hot ashes of the fire.

01:26 Close up of cooked witchetty grubs.

01:29 Young Aboriginal child eats the grubs.

01:46 At the end of the day natives carrying a fire stick make their way to camp.

01:51 Aboriginal family walk with smoking fire sticks.

02:03 Two Aboriginal men sit next to a fire with their hunting spears and shields piled to their left.

02:06 Midst their tribal mountains they gather around their campfires.

02:12 Wide shot of landscape with mountains in the background and smoking camps in the foreground.

02:24 Three Aboriginal men sit around a campfire.

02:30 Wide shot of large red rock mountain monolith.

02:34 In the dark, a wide shot of a camp with smoke from the campfire visible.

02:38 Panning shot in low light of mountain range in the distance.

02:40 After circling the MacDonnell Ranges we head east for Alice Springs

02:48 Wide shot of open scenery of trees and mountain range in the background.

02:52 Then East of Alice Springs to Arltunga and Ambalindum via Undoolya.

03:00 Wide shot of car from perspective of car travelling down dirt road. Camera pans to view mountain range.

03:48 Shot of green car parked in front of trees and mountains in the background.

04:07 Panning shot of vast mountain ranges.

04:30 Car parking in front of ranges, camera pans to the left.

04:32 Young boy wearing a blue shirt and khaki shorts stands in front of a camp fire.

04:37 Wide panning shot of spinifex and surrounding flora.

04:50 We halt at The Little Flower Mission at Arltunga

04:55 A large group of Aboriginal children stand together looking at the camera. Camera pans left across the group. A white man stands at the end of the group looking facing the camera.

05:01 Man begins to hand out food to children, they all gather around him.

05:15 Wide shot taken from above of mountain ranges, looking down into a gorge.

05:24 Altunga Gorge

05:27 Camera pans up the face of a large red rock mountain in Altunga Gorge.

05:33 Wide shot of the gorge.

05:35 Quick shot of a cluster of tall, white thin trees.

05:48 Wide shot taken from a car travelling down the road of the large red rock face of Altunga Gorge.

06:00 Simpson’s Gap in all its colourful and rugged beauty lies in the heart of the MacDonnell Ranges.

6:10 Wide shot of scenery with two mountains in the background creating a ‘V’ shape valley between them.

06:36 Close up of the surface of the mountains.

06:48 Close up of the ‘V’ shape between the two mountain with a creek in the foreground.
A man in a glazer and hat walks away from the camera towards the creek.

07:11 Slow panning close up of the rock face of the mountains.

07:33 Close up of creek

08:36 Close up panning shot of rock face of mountain.

08:40 Wide shot of scenary with large boulders in the foreground. Horses in the background.

08:45 Truck parked on at the right hand side of shot. Camera pans left across rubble.

08:53 Wide shot of mountain range in the background.

09:00 Tall, thin, white trees clustered together.

09:08 Close up of birds flying around and perching trees.

09:19 Film turns black.

09:43 End of film [No intertitle].

1x Digital Betacam
1 x SP Betacan
2 x DVD

CreatorFrederick Roy Vyse
ControlAA 353/5/23
Date Range1946  -  1946
Quantity   1   Film, 16mm, colour
Series AA353/5