TAGGED: 1930s
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A group of women talk about their experiences with the Leahy brothers. They describe how, as young women, their people sold them to the Leahy brothers for sexual purposes.

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In interview and voice-over, James Leahy recollects the first time the Leahy brothers came across a new community of highlanders.

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Rupert Kathner (Ben Mendelsohn) announces his filmmaking vision: a projector atop the tallest city building screening his movies on white clouds in the sky, the entire world his audience.

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Rupert Kathner (Ben Mendelsohn) is having trouble selling his film to production houses.

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Dad (Bert Bailey) and Dave (Fred MacDonald) arrive at Cecille’s dress shop to inspect their new inheritance.

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The gala reopening of Cecille’s dress shop is threatened by an unpaid debt of £1,000.

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Young Bill Ryan (Peter Finch) comes to see Dad Rudd (Bert Bailey) about marrying his daughter Sarah (Valerie Scanlan).

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Buddy Williams sings Lonesome For Your Mother Dear, a sad song about a man missing his dead mother. This clip is from the start of the song.

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'Wrap Me Up With My Stockwhip and Blanket’ was recorded by Tex Morton in August 1936 for Regal Zonophone at EMI Studios in Sydney.

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Early documentary film about Australia's cattle industry. Cattle being mustered across river. Stockman chasing cattle.