Behind the wheel driving through the mining fields, Norman tells us that they used to get into his old Landrover to hunt kangaroo for meat, sometimes hitting the animal with the car.

In a sweeping shot of the mining fields, hills of ore dot the landscape.

A documentary history of the uranium and nuclear industry in South Australia from 1910 to 1980.

In this dramatised sequence, a mining family hears on the wireless that Singapore has fallen to the Japanese.

This clip shows elephants carrying goods on their backs in South-East Asia; village huts by a river, filmed from onboard a boat; and street scenes in a larger city.

This clip begins with a sign which says 'Tarn Shan Tin Mine’.

Sandy (Toni Collette) touches Hiromitsu’s face as he’s sleeping. They are in bed together. In the morning, at a petrol station, she sees a picture of his family in his wallet.

Bogged and stranded a long way from help, Sandy (Toni Collette) asks Hiromitsu (Gotaro Tsunashima) if she can borrow his phone, because she has no signal.

Mr Tachibana (Gotaro Tsunashima) waits outside the Port Hedland airport. Sandy Edwards (Toni Collette) arrives late, and with no idea of the proper way to greet a visitor from Japan.

See how Broken Hill has changed in these films and recorded sound items from the NFSA's collection.