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Mornington Island mission, 1940s

This is an excerpt from colour home movies made between 1944 and 1948 by Reverend James McCarthy, the Superintendent of the Presbyterian Mission on Mornington Island.

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Dreamtime, Machinetime: Changing

Banduk Marika walks amongst the Sydney population.

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Benny and the Dreamers: Creation

Benny Tjapaltarri and Mick Ngamurarri tell us the significance of the Dreaming, and how the Dreaming ancestors created the landscape. Summary by Romaine Moreton.

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Lousy Little Sixpence: Like one big family

Two people removed from their families as children to enter into servitude, Margaret Tucker and Bill Reid, speak of their experience growing up.

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Benny and the Dreamers: Desert economy

Aerial shots of Hermannsburg in Central Australia are followed by black-and-white historical footage of Indigenous people going about their business on the mission. Interview footage of Pastor F.

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Benny and the Dreamers: Path to progress

After black-and-white footage of Pintubi people, Smithy Zimeran Tjampitjinpa recalls being moved to Papunya. Yuyua Nampitjinpa talks about her experience in the mission school.

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Dreamtime, Machinetime: We Are Going

Aerial views of Minjerriba (Stradbroke Island), and Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) walking along the beach with children.

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5 Seasons: Barra - rains coming

Rain falls heavily, the streets of the community are quiet, and Moses sits drinking tea on the porch of a house in the community of Numbulwar, Wandu, where he is from, has been flooded in.

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5 Seasons: Everything has a cycle

Tom E Lewis introduces the concept of five seasons over footage of an overflowing Rose River – the land inundated with water, followed by a montage of a dry riverbed.

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5 Seasons: Water and fire

Tom E Lewis gives a brief introduction into how Arnhemland society is structured. There are 12 clans in Numbulwar, and the society is divided into two moieties.