Part 8: Murrunji Track, Top Springs, Sandover and Arthur River

Archive Collections / Frederick Roy Vyse / Series AA353/5 / Part 8: Murrunji Track, Top Springs, Sandover and Arthur River

00:04 A herd of cows rush across a field of tall, brown grass being followed by a drover.

00:08 The herd is now in a pen.

0:22 The cows and bulls are now blocking a dirt road as a car moves slowly through them.
00:39 A large termite mound.

00:44 A sign reads Newcastle waters, Murranji Tack with an arrow points towards the right.

00:58 A close up on what appear to be figs growing high up in a tree.

01:12 A green truck drives down a steep dirt track.

01:21 Another tall termite mound.

01:28 Four Australian Aboriginal men stand inspecting a blue truck.

01:30 Three women and a man stand next to a boiler of some sort chatting.

01:49 Large empty field with tyre tracks.

01:53 A group of Australian Aboriginal men stand facing the camera.

02:00 A green truck towing a caravan stands still as three men attend to it at the back in the distance.

02:21 From the perspective of the front of a car driving down a dirt road with a man on a motorcycle in front.

02:33 A long stone building in a field with not much around it, a man stands outside. A close up on a bird standing on a truck tyre, pecking it with it beak.

02:37 A large red rock monolith towers over a small house in the foreground.

02:53 A camp fire burns in the night. Nothing else is visible.

03:38 The brown truck seems to struggle along a track of dirt and sand. It drives up a very short steep incline before returning.

03:41 A group of camels are prepared for travel with saddles and provisions piled on their backs. A group of Australian Aboriginal men are organising and talking in the background, next to a group of horses.

04:10 A small white house in the background and the green truck is parked in the foreground with a man attending to the truck and a white dog around his feet.

04:18 A small kangaroo stands in front of the camera with a black border collie standing by looking curiously at the kangaroo. The shot quickly changes to the perspective of the truck traveling along a makeshift track along the sand, only following previous tyre tracks.

04:54 A long red sand track flanked by tall black trees either side.

05:04 Road train is piled with two beaten down trucks. A group of Australian Aboriginal men, women and children sit in a blue truck.

05:29 A train pulls away as a group of people stand waving goodbye from Alice Springs train station.

05:49 The setting sun sky, bright orange with clouds rippled and strewn across the sky.

06:14 The train crossed a bridge, perspective from the back of the train.

06:53 Perspective of the side of the train viewing a mountain range in the distance with the sub setting behind it then with beans of sun light still projecting over the above the ranges.

07:09 Title card: Good night.

07:13 Title card: Kodak Safety film

07:16 Film goes black.

07:25 End of film.

1x Digital Betacam
1 x SP Betacan
2 x DVD

CreatorFrederick Roy Vyse
ControlAA 353/5/26
Quantity   1   Film, 16mm, colour
Series AA353/5