Australia in the 80s
Sign in to track this film in your collection or want list.
Year Published: 1981
Creator: film-australia-john-leake
Description: 1981. Film Australia. Directed by John Leake. "The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia have noted that this film is "a precursor to the Film Australia series 'Australia in the 80s' produced in 1982"." (imdb) This documentary presents a sweeping portrait of Australia as a vast, resource-rich continent whose people, industries, and communications are bound together across immense distances. Moving from dawn on the east coast to ongoing activity in the west, the film intercuts air-traffic control, coastal surveillance, helicopters mustering cattle, radio broadcasts, urban traffic reports, and the Indian Pacific railway to show how transportation and media knit the nation together. It then surveys Australia’s economic foundations—mining, minerals trading, agriculture, energy production, and export industries—alongside scenes of labor negotiations, markets, and auctions that highlight the country’s democratic processes and social character. The film concludes by emphasizing Australia’s role in science and innovation, showcasing advances in medical technology, aviation, electronics, and space tracking, and framing the nation as both an ancient land with deep human history and a modern contributor to global knowledge and technology.
Complete Record: 1981. Film Australia. Directed by John Leake. "The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia have noted that this film is "a precursor to the Film Australia series 'Australia in the 80s' produced in 1982"." (imdb) This documentary presents a sweeping portrait of Australia as a vast, resource-rich continent whose people, industries, and communications are bound together across immense distances. Moving from dawn on the east coast to ongoing activity in the west, the film intercuts air-traffic control, coastal surveillance, helicopters mustering cattle, radio broadcasts, urban traffic reports, and the Indian Pacific railway to show how transportation and media knit the nation together. It then surveys Australia’s economic foundations—mining, minerals trading, agriculture, energy production, and export industries—alongside scenes of labor negotiations, markets, and auctions that highlight the country’s democratic processes and social character. The film concludes by emphasizing Australia’s role in science and innovation, showcasing advances in medical technology, aviation, electronics, and space tracking, and framing the nation as both an ancient land with deep human history and a modern contributor to global knowledge and technology.
Transcription
[Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Laughter] [Music] Ow. [Applause] [Music] Ow. [Music] [Music] Australia is a huge continental mass with most of its people and most of their activity huddled on its coastal fringes. [Music] The first light has reached the east coast. 3,000 km away in the west. It's still dark. [Music] Our headland control. This is Quantis 2 at time 55, flight level 370. We checked over Port Headland at time 55 >> to Perth control. Roger. >> And we're estimating Saddleback at 1035. >> Roger. [Applause] >> Hello Springs. Good morning. This is helicopter kilo kilo Juliet. Request airways clearance to operate within the 10 nautical mile radius of the Simpsons gap area on mustering operations. [Applause] Come on there. Oh, walk up. Come on. Walk along there. Oh, come on. Rolling forward [Music] [Music] control. This is Quantis 22 position CAMS at 21103, flight level 350, estimating over Rockampton at 2201. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] Darwin ground. This is Nomad 24 for surveillance. Request clearance. >> Nomad 24, this is Darwan ground. Clearance surveillance route 6. Cruise below 1,000. Nomad 2 for surveillance route 6 below 1,000. >> Surveillance aircraft patrolling 36,000 km of coastline touching three oceans. [Music] And now on the nation's number one station, just let me tell you, you're in for a beautiful Sydney morning. 2 forecast is for tons of sun in Sweet Sydney today. Well, I think at this time we might take time out to cross to the helicopter to see just what it is doing in the city. >> Good morning. This is your eye on the sky traffic report now. Uh we're right over downtown Sydney. And the traffic coming into the city this morning is normal for this time of day. Uh the main streets are heavy, but all the traffic looks as though it's moving pretty well. Parking in the city is getting filled up quickly. So some of those need my favorite spot. >> Brisbane street BKG. >> Well, I tell you what, coming off the Glville Bridge. Traffic is very heavy. >> We have a broken in vehicle on ride bridge at the moment. >> Lane one southbound. It's blocking the traffic. >> We have a tow truck. Police attendance in that area. car make your way to the city bridge lane 7. [Music] >> Goodbye. >> It's a magnificent morning in Sydney. And I tell you what, if you're running late for work, there is no way in the world you're going to make up time in this traffic. Matter of fact, if you're a little fitter, perhaps do a little more exercise, you probably find you could jog to work more quickly than you can drive today. Good morning. The London Stock Exchange reports heavy trading on all minerals in [Music] [Music] ABC FM stereo across the street. Sydney, Melbourne, >> CRA, >> Brisbane, Adelaide, >> Hobart, >> Bonist, >> Newcastle, >> Beret, >> Southwestern, Victoria, >> Bunbury, >> Mount Gambia, ABC, FM stereo. >> Good morning ladies and gentlemen. This is senior conductor speaking. The Indie Pacific train is about to cross from eastern to Western Australia. Will all passengers please put their watches back 1 and a half hours. >> Morning. Time is now 6:15 a.m. and the first in saloon at 7 a.m. >> The Indian Pacific is due to stop at Calguri in 2 hours time. >> Calguli gold town. Gold Australia's first mineral export. [Music] [Music] across Australia. National FM stereo. The time is 6, 6:00 in South Australia, 5 in Queensland. [Music] [Music] Oh, 45 hccky 45 hccky >> listen I'm about an hour out of the Alice now about an hour out of the Alice >> 45 hgy 45 hgy how you going mate hot enough for you >> yeah Dennis cattle travel well road's fairly good about an hour out now >> okay it's all set we've got everything set to go out here. I'll have the beers chilled and waiting. Over. Roger, mate. I'll see you when I get in the [Music] >> pleased by the following stocks. 50,000 Hammersley at $280. 50,000 >> 50,000 woodside at $230 market [Music] 98 dollars two buyers two sellers Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Applause] iron ore Australia the world's largest exporter Heat up here. Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Applause] $678. Count [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] on 512. [Applause] Enormous deposits of boide. Aluminina raw material export. [Music] Refined aluminium, a new export industry. 46. [Applause] >> Got him. >> Hydro electricity. Thermal electricity. Experiments in solar electricity pointing to the future. [Music] Huge reserves. Energy for domestic production for export. [Music] [Music] Heat up here. [Music] natural gas, a surplus for export. [Music] [Applause] Oil, the search for complete self-sufficiency continues. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. self-sufficient domestic production exports to the Southeast Asian and Pacific markets. Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Applause] I think we should take the rest of the day off in protest against this decision. So I would like everybody to walk off the job now. I get someone to second it. >> All right. All those in favor raise. >> Pretty unanimous, fellas. Thank you. That's it. Simple as that. You see? >> Oh, come on. You just sit here. Move up. Will the door negotiations progressing well? >> Construction workers this morning returned to work after talks in the consiliation and arbitration commission. However, their wages Diverse interests, diverse traditions, the means to express them, the means to resolve problems. [Applause] >> Futures exchange trading in crops not yet grown, stock not yet born. >> 39.95. $28 150 the option of taking the $28. Come on, there's a crowd on me now. We're all in the same boat for >> 40. Who's the seller? 40 60, please. >> $2650. Round them. $4650. 4650. Want it? 700. 47. I'll take your 20 cents now, boss. $47 27 20 47 202 Wait 20 >> 2 4 2 4 2 4 2 4 2 4 2 4 2 4 2 4 2 4 2 4 2720 >> are a magnificent pen of sheep and he's been feeding them to 4720 4720 and look at the skin on it. Sell 4845 over position may [Applause] >> perhaps a sign of the Australian character that when equal bids are made the result is decided by the toss of a coin [Music] >> 489 [Applause] at 4870 [Applause] >> 4850 1 2 [Music] 6. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat up here. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] You murdered her. >> I'm left normal for you. >> Why don't you carve another notch in your weapon? Oh, >> you call that normal? Heat. Heat. [Music] Yeah. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] [Applause] Heat. Some of the oldest human relics on Earth. [Applause] [Music] All [Applause] [Applause] right. Slowly hold special purpose light aircraft. The Australian designed and built Nomad technology for the export market. Sound scanning devices can replace X-rays in the observation of the interior of the human body. On its final test, scanning sections through a sponge. In practice, it will scan sections through the living human body. Export technology. [Music] An extraordinary complex of electrical circuits powered by a battery. Pacemakers. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Tiny machines to regulate the beating of the heart. Export technology. [Music] Dr. Russell's a casualty. Dr. Russell's a casualty. >> Dr. [Music] Gamma cameras tracing the movements of radioactive particles through the body. It's non-intrusive diagnosis. Medical teams can watch the behavior of organs without exploratory surgery. For convolescent patients, there's an optimum amount of exercise. Neither too much producing strain nor too little delaying recovery. Gamma cameras and oscillographs helping determine what this optimum is. I'll hold this thread, Phil. You hold the lower thread. You hold the other. >> Micro surgery. Minute implements and equipment. >> Just snug it down >> to perform surgery under a microscope. >> Right. Try not to elevate >> Australia. A major contributor to world knowledge. >> Just Yeah, that's it. That's good. Retain that as a stay selec [Music] microwave system for controlling and directing aircraft landings chosen by the international civil aviation organization for worldwide use by the end of the 80s. to be operating in most countries. >> Auroral tracking station Australia online. >> Uh this is shuttle control Houston at 2 hours and 27 minutes of mission elapse time. standing by for a reacquisition of Columbia through >> Jargon [Music] control. This is a rural tracking station Australia. >> We're about 30 seconds from Eloet at Yagy here. We'll see you at Aurora in about 2 and 1/2 minutes. Roger, Columbia. Australia ready and waiting. [Music] [Applause] [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]
1 user has this film:
The Unpopular Archive
No related films.
Original permalink · Record added: 2025-12-13 15:42:07