This video clip is an excerpt from the film The New Railway Link from Darwin to Alice Springs, an episode fo the series Northern Territory Contact, produced in 1981. Princess Alexandra officially opened the new railway line in October 1980.
Producer: Malcolm Otton, Director: Ian Walker.
Northern Territory Contact is a Film Australia Production. Produced for the Northern Territory Information Service.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.