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Testing Rockets At Woomera Rocket Range

Rocket-making and launching tests the limits of science and technology at Woomera in South Australia, the longest rocket range in the western world.

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First Contact: Gramophone

Michael Leahy’s photographs and footage show the highlanders surrounding and looking at a gramophone (with a 1930s recording of ‘Looking on the Bright Side of Life’ playing on the soundtrack).

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Romeo + Juliet: Love at first sight

At a party in the Capulet mansion, Romeo (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Juliet (Claire Danes) meet for the first time. The couple cannot take their eyes off each other.

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Black Harvest: Warfare and its consequences

In a wide shot, many highlanders are chanting and running through the grass with spears. Joe sits at home looking distraught. The Ganiga return to the village and attend to a wounded man.

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Joe Leahy’s Neighbours: Soot-blackened arrows

At a village gathering, the father of a wounded Ganiga man, shot by a Gaimelka man, has a stand-off with a Lutheran pastor who had been trying to calm things down.

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Crook Hat and Camphoo: Spearing kangaroo well

A dead kangaroo sits on the ground between Camphoo and Crook Hat. The elder hooks the stick under the sinew of the kangaroo, and turns it to remove the long tendon.

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Crook Hat and Camphoo: Hunting during the calm

The two elders with their spears straightened and smoothed, make holes in the ends with a stone knife for the woomera.

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Crook Hat and Camphoo: The right tree

Elders Crook Hat and Camphoo are walking through the bush searching for the right tree to make spears. They tell us that the old people used to cut down the Acacia tree to make spears.

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Romeo + Juliet: A dangerous solution

On the eve of her marriage to Dave Paris, Juliet (Claire Danes) becomes suicidal.

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Romeo + Juliet: Capulets and Montagues

A TV news reporter describes a bitter rivalry in the city of Verona Beach. Engaged in the deadly feud are Romeo’s Montague family and the Capulet family of Juliet.