00:04 Part III

00:05 The glory of the rock is only rivalled by the radiance of the sunset, and as the evening shadows fall, our cheerful camp fire seems to emulate and diffuse the splendour of the Heavens.

00:18 Wide establishing shot of the sandy, curved, red rock of Ayres Rock. Camera slowly pans towards the right along the rock.

00:34 The Ascent

00:37 Shot of Ayres Rock, large triangular shaped area or mound is the focus before shifting to another angle of the mountain.

00:52 A man in a boilersuit and a green truck are parked in the foreground, very near the base of Ayres Rock. The camera pans away to very briefly reveal the height on the mountain.

00:55 Night time, orange sky and large silhouette of Ayres Rock visible in the foreground to the left.

01:00 A camp fire can be seen burning in the night.

01:02 We make the ascent.

01:08 A climb of over 2,000 ft. rendered dangerous by the ever-present surging air currents which threaten to sweet us from the rock.

01:18 A man walks up an extremely steep slope of the mountain which becomes more difficult the higher he climbs.

01:24 Two small figures can be seen climbing up the mountain in the distance.

01:30 The two men, having reached the summit, sit resting.

01:34 They begin their walk back down the mountain.

01:46 Close up of the deep slope demonstrating how carefully the men have to walk back down.

01:52 Point of View shot from the climbers’ perspective, again showing how dangerously steep the mountain is even at this low altitude. A truck is parked at the bottom.

02:00 Wide shot of mountain before cutting to a close up.

02:09 A large cave area inside the rock mountain with the man in the red shirt walking inside it.

02:18 Close up of holes eroding away at the surface of the rock face.

02:20 Yackiti gathers enough pitcher (native tobacco) to make him the envy on his mates back home.

02:28 Yackiti, an Australian Aboriginal man, stands in front of the camera holding a large amount of native tobacco, looking very proud.

02:31 Yackiti stands in the distance holding the native tobacco as a white man in the foreground films him using a camera on a tripod. Two other men, one in a blue shirt and another in a red shirt, watch nearby before packing the leaves into a bag and loading it onto a truck.

02:41 Wide shot of a rock face in the foreground, a winding river then vast green field in the background.

02:43 Close up of holes eroding away at the surface of the rock face.

02:47 White man in the red shirt examines a small bunch of the native tobacco.

02:50 Wide shot of a large sparse, desert area. The truck is parked in the middle of the shot with the smoke from a campfire beside it as a mean walks towards the camera in the foreground.

02:58 Close up from a distance of the group packing the truck.

02:59 Various panning shots of the curved mountain showing its various shapes and examples of erosion.

03:30 A clear image of Ayer’s Rock, similar to the angle most people are familiar with. This is taken from the right end of the rock.

03:41 We leave it to solitude again – a fitting symbol in a silent wilderness –taking with us impressions that will last until time with us will be no more.

03:51 Two tricks are parked and Ayres Rock can be seen in the background to the right of the shot. Two men and a dog stand in the truck, the one in the red shirt on the left appears to be holding a gun. The camera pans right to see a man using a camera on a tripod to film the great sandstone structure.

04:12 Different angle of the men and trucks.

04:15 Wide, establishing shot of Ayer’s Rock taken from the end of the rock mountain. Camera slowly pans to the left to show the length and sheer size of it.

04:26 As it grows later in the day, the red sandstone of Ayer’s Rock becomes more apparent.

04:28 Wide shot of Ayer’s Rock focussing particularly on the areas of erosion on the surface.

04:41 Sixty miles of sand-hills have to be fought and surmounted by all those who visit Ayers Rock.

04:50 Perspective from the front of a car. Ahead is a truck with a man in a wide-brimmed hat and a dog standing on the back. Both cars are travelling down a dirt road surrounded by green shrubs and spinifex.

05:04 The trucks are stationary. There are three men and a dog sitting in the truck. Two wearing wide-brimmed hats and the other is just visible behind them.

05:11 Trucks resumes it journey forward.

05:16 A red and green truck are parked in a wide and mostly empty desert landscape. A man wearing an akubra leans out from inside the green truck.

05:22 The red truck begins it journey, travelling across the screen driven by an man in a red shirt and an Australian Aboriginal man sits on the back of the truck with a dog. The camera follows the truck up the hill as it struggles to make its way over the ridge of the sandy hill.

05:50 The green truck successfully makes its way over the sand hill in one attempt. The red truck follows it.

06:05 Quick perspective of the trucks following one another along a red and sandy track.

06:06 Ayers Rock 10 miles distant takes on a lovely pastel tint which seems to soften and merge into the sky above.

06:19 A wide shot of the surrounding lands of Ayers Rock. If the monolith itself can be seen in the distance on the left as the camera pans across a vast green landscape.

06:30 The camera briefly zooms in on the structure of Ayers Rock. It focuses on Mount Olga (?) in the distance not far from Ayers Rock.

06:49 A camp fire burns brightly in the night. A person can faintly be seen in front of the fire.

06:57 Damper is baked for the day in the coals of our morning fire.

07:03 Three man are preparing breakfast in their camp. One in a red shirt kneels down preparing food, the other two stand nearby watching.

07:09 Close up of a man scarping a roll of damper.

07:14 A long thin fire burns along a strip of green grass with the trucks behind it.

07:22 Mt.Connor, 30 miles away causes us to halt once again and feast our eyes on its beauty.

07:31 Mount Connor with its flat top can be seen is the distance over a vast green landscape.

07:38 Three men stand photographing the Mount Connor landscape with their tripod camera.

07:47 Two trucks parked in high grass area.

07:51 Two Australian Aboriginal men and two white men walk through a grassy area, one carrying the tripod camera over his shoulder and one carrying a handheld camera.

08:04 Emerging from the wilderness, we arrive at Curtain Springs, a lonely outpost on the fringe of the desert.

08:13 Shot of Curtain Springs surrounded by largely empty desert area. White buildings can be seen in the background with areas of spinifex in the foreground. Red truck drives by on the right.

08:21 A man grooms himself using the reflection from the front of the red truck. A man stands next to him in a black leather jacket, looking at the camera.

08:24 A corrugated shed with a grass structured hut shelter to its left.

08:28 Men from the expedition stand greeting and chatting with some women, presumably locals of Curtain Springs.

08:33 Mount Connor can be seen in the distance.

08:47Camera pans across local landscape – a farm windmill can be seem on the right of the shot.

08:53 Mount Connor can be seen in the far distance from a dirt track.

09:09 From the Kernott Ranges 50 miles away, Mt.Connor is still visible like a great ship in a seas of mulga.

09:12 Mount Connor can clearly be seen in the background over a vast landscape of mulga trees before it.

09:13 Perspective of the car travelling along a well-used dirt track with large trees and green foliage either side of it.

09:20 Truck parked near a camp with fire burning.

09:25 We halt at Doctor Stone’s Station – home of Bob Buck, famous as the discoverer of Lasseter’s body.

09:32 Two men standing at the rear of a blue truck loading it. One man in a blue boilersuit, the other older with grey hair and moustache.

09:38 A group of Australian Aboriginal women and children sit on the ground in front of a stone hut.

09:44 Close up of a herd of cattle. One stands in the pen as a man brands it with a hot branding iron.

09:52 An Australian Aboriginal man, two children and two dogs sit near a camp fire as in the late evening.

09:56 A large, bright fire burns in the dark night. A person is briefly visible walking behind the fire.

10:00 Breathed there a man With a soul so dead, Who never to himself has said, This is my own, my native land. Scott.

10:12 The End

10:16 Film turns black.

10:27 End of film.