North Trip Part 4: Tenant and Banka Creek

00:00 Part IV

00:06 Northwood bound! Via Barrow Creek, Wauchope-Tennant Creek and Banka Banka.

00:13 Car travelling down long bitumen road, front view of road ahead visible.

00:28 The Devils Marbles north of Wauchope form a contrast to the delightful wild flowers of the northern bush country.

00:36 Large rock boulders balance on top of one another in various shapes and formations.

00:51 Wide short of Devil’s Marbles.

01:00 Close up of two Devil’s Marbles balancing on flatter boulders. A man in a grey suit walks past them, examining them.

01:04 Panoramic of landscape scattered with large boulders.

01:15 Close up of tall thin branched tree with orange leaves blowing in the breeze.

01:21 Close up of brown shrub-like flora.

01:30 A man on a horse corral cows across a field.

01:32 Arriving at Tennant Creek we visit the Eldorado gold mine and the Phillips Creek native depot.

01:40 An aeroplane sits stationary on the tarmac.

01:45 Car travelling down dirt track towards Eldorado gold mine in the distance.

01:49 Panoramic of small white huts scattered across the landscape taken from above.

01:54 Tree with numerous birds perched on the branches.

01:58 A group of Aboriginal men wearing wide-brimmed hats and children sit together amid their belongings.

02:02 A large green truck is being loaded with tree branches by two Aboriginal men wearing wide-brimmed hats. Two other Aboriginal men sit in the truck.

2:06 Close up of two young Aboriginal boys.

02:11 Wide shot of a large lake.

02:14 A shed with a black car parked in front of it. Camera pans right across some old corrugated shacks. Two men stand talking, one in a white pith helmet.

02:19 Still further north to Banka Banka we pass Churchill’s Head...

02:25 Car travels along bitumen road. A rock formation is the shape of Winston Churchill is passed on the right hand side.

02:37 Close up of Churchill’s Head. The words Church lies here are painted in white.

02:46 Car travels down long bitumen road. Point of view shot of car.

02:57 Returning via Mt.Isa road and Central Mt.Stuart, we visit the original town of Alice Springs, now a native depot.

03:04 Point of view shot from car travelling down long narrow dirt track suddenly turns into bitumen road.

03:49 Lake in the middle of dirt gravel landscape with large rock mountain behind it.

04:00 Camera pans left to revels small white shacks within the valley near the lake.

04:09 Panning shot of small local cemetery. Cemetery fence is made from stones.

04:14 Wide shot of white houses and buildings across a patch of grassland. White man in grey blazer briefly visible as camera pans left.

04:18 Standley Chasm a narrow vertical cleft hundreds of feel high – and from there to Temple Bar

04:24 Tall, vertical chasm of red rock reaches into the distance. Camera pans up the chasm showing its height. This shot is repeated four times.

05:00 Close up of the surface of the chasm.

05:17 Two white men and a woman standing around a camp. One man stands next to a fire while the woman stands next to the green truck. Some deck chairs are set out nearby.

05:56 Emily Gap from the south side - and a picnic luncheon in the bed of the Todd River

06:05 Wide shot of a valley with a river flowing through it.

06:25 Looking down the rock face to the river and valley. In the distance, to the left some houses can be seen.

06:39 A man and a woman climb down the rock-face. The woman wears a white hat.

06:43 Man and women climb down the rock-face and approach the camera.

06:50 Close up of rock painting of vertical white and brown lines.

07:00 Lady in a blue and white dotted dress, brown cardigan and white sub hat stands in front of the rock painting, examining it. An elderly man in a grey blazer and white trousers stands to the right.

07:22 Wide shot of river with small rock mountains either side. A young child in a red dress can be seen near the water walking across the shot. Two adults can briefly be seen towards the left.

07:30 Three men on horseback ride across the river towards the camera.

07:42 A group of horses then cross the river.

07:48 A family has a picnic. The lady sits on the blanket watching the man and two children play nearby.

08:03 A herd of cattle wonder across a sandy landscape.

08:15 Multiple wide shots of landscape with mountains in the background and flat land covered in trees in the foreground.

08:27 Woman stands leaning against the boot of a black car wearing a red cardigan, green skirt and sunglasses. Shot is taken from above.

08:30 A man and two children sit on the edge of a hill overlooking a vast flat landscape covered in trees with mountains in the background.

08:35 Young girl with blue cardigan and white dress stands amongst the grass staring at the camera. She runs across the grass and towards the camera.

08:40 Point of view shot of car travelling along a makeshift dirt track with mountains to the left as it approaches a bend in the track.

09:23 Film turns black

09:49 End of Film.

1x Digital Betacam
1 x SP Betacan
2 x DVD

CreatorFrederick Roy Vyse
ControlAA 353/5/24
Quantity   1   Film, 16mm, colour
Series AA353/5