Cine-films - previous series 30 "Ceremonial"

Series 30 from "Driver 2006 list"
This item is restricted. Edited cine-films (Ceremonial and dance footage). Thirteen rolls of edited film depicting bullroarer shots, body decorations and the women's dot, sand, charcoal and solo dances?.

The edited clips are held as reels or in individual boxes marked with their accession number and old and new series number. The term 'description' equates to the description recorded as per the accession form and the term 'label equates to the label in the individual boxes or attached to a reel.

1             Positive   BW & Colour, (2 film lengths 2ft and 2ft)  Description:  “Native with Bull roarer”.    Label:  “Bullroarer shorts”.  Previous Acc No 1739.    This item is Restricted

2             Positive   Colour,  11ft 2in      Description:   “Bullroarer shots – string broke off stick”.    Label: “K Bullroarer shots – String broke off stick”.  Previous Acc No 1739.   This item is Restricted

3             Positive    BW, 11ft 11in    Description:   “Jim swinging a bullroarer – 2 natives walking in the scrub.  Last shots taken”.    Label:  “Jim swinging bullroarer. L shots”.    Previous Acc No 1739.     This item is Restricted

4             Positive   BW, 4ft    Description:  “  Scraps of chorus singers – decorated”.   Label:  “Scraps.  Natives being decorated for ceremony”.   Previous Acc No 1739.    This item is Restricted

5             Positive    BW, 2ft 2in     Description:  “Applying the last of the body decoration – early part of ceremony”.   Label:  “BW shot ???.  Start of body decoration. ?early ? ceremony ?1951”.    Previous Acc No 1739.   This item is Restricted

6             No box marked Item 6 sighted.

7             Positive    BW, 5ft 5in    Description:  “Woma[e]n, decorated;  just before sand dance begins”.   Label:  “Standing before sand dance”.   Previous Acc No 1739.    This item is Restricted

8             Positive   BW, 5ft     Description:  “4 dances later”.    Label:  “4 dances later”.    Previous Acc No 1739.    This item is Restricted

9             Positive   BW,  13ft 10in    Description:   2 women depicted in open landscape ceremonial or living scene event.    Unable to match film length and description from Acc No 1739.     No label sighted in box.  Previous Acc No 1739.   This item is Restricted

10           Positive   BW, 12ft 10in   Description:  “End of ‘Charcoal dance’ “.   Label:  “End of Charcoal dance”.    Previous Acc No 1739.    This item is Restricted

11           Positive   BW, 7ft    Description:  “Second dance”.   Label:  “2nd dance”.    Previous Acc No 1739.  This item is Restricted

12           Positive    BW, 17ft 11in    Description:  “First shot of ‘charcoal dance’ “   Label:  “1st shot of charcoal dance”.   Previous Acc No 1739.     This item is Restricted

13           Positive   BW, 20ft     Description:  “After Minnie’s (native woman) solo dance – she joins the rest of the group”.   Label:  “After Minnie solo dance – group”.    Previous Acc No 1739.    This item is Restricted

CreatorProfessor Thomas Draper Campbell
ControlAA 52/5/10/25
FormatsIndexes
Series AA 52/05