Something of the times [from the AIATSIS collection].
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Contributors
Cole, Tom, contributor.
McKenzie, Kim, film director.
Levitus, Robert, researcher.
O'Sullivan, Cathie, composer.
Sullivan, Chris, composer.
Published
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2014.
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eVideo
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Title from title frames.
Date/Time and Place of Event
Originally produced by Ronin Films in 1985.
Description
Using a wealth of archival photographs, this documentary reconstructs the life of buffalo hunters in the remote wetlands of the Northern Territory in the 1930s, both the white hunters and the Aboriginal labour that supported their operations. Tom Cole was one of the hunters, now retired in Sydney. With the filmmakers, he visits the sites of hunting camps that he had built before the war in what is now Kakadu National Park. He reminisces on the old buffalo trade and meets some of the Aboriginal men and women who still live in the area who worked for him and on whom he was dependent. He also visits Victoria Settlement (Port Essington): one of the most heroic and hopeless ventures in the history of the British Empire, established in the 1830s, now in ruins, where buffalo were first introduced. For the film, Tom and his former Aboriginal team build a new camp in the way they did in the 1930s, and demonstrate the skinning of buffalos, the washing of the hides, and salting and drying. Hunting was on horse-back in those days, unlike the present-day hunting by helicopter, and Yellow Charlie Whittaker was one of the great horse-back hunters. With other veterans, he comments on the tough life of the camps, when conditions were extremely rough and when they were often paid with food, tobacco and other commodities. The hunters remember the wartime bombing of Darwin and the explosion in buffalo numbers when hunting was abandoned during the war. Nowadays, the buffalo is being eradicated from Kakadu, and rangers such as Dave Lindner, Environmental Manager for the Gagudju Association of traditional owners, explain the modern methods of control. Directed and filmed by Kim McKenzie. Research by Robert Levitus. Music by Cathie O'Sullivan, Chris Sullivan. The Buffalo shooter's song by Jim Doyle, Allan Stewart. Production assistant Norma Briscoe. An AIAS Film Unit production 1985.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (Style Guide)
Cole, T., McKenzie, K., Levitus, R., O'Sullivan, C., Sullivan, C., Doyle, J., Stewart, A., & Briscoe, N. (2014). Something of the times [from the AIATSIS collection]. Kanopy Streaming.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 18th Edition (Style Guide)Tom, Cole et al.. 2014. Something of the Times [from the AIATSIS Collection]. Kanopy Streaming.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 18th Edition (Style Guide)Tom, Cole et al.. Something of the Times [from the AIATSIS Collection]. Kanopy Streaming, 2014.
UCL Harvard Citation (Style Guide)Cole, T., McKenzie, K., Levitus, R., O'Sullivan, C., Sullivan, C., Doyle, J. and Stewart, A. et al (2014). Something of the times [from the AIATSIS collection]. [San Francisco, California, USA]: Kanopy Streaming.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (Style Guide)Cole, Tom,, et al. Something of the Times [from the AIATSIS Collection]. Kanopy Streaming, 2014.
Note: Citations contain only title, author, edition, and publisher. Only UCL Harvard citations contain the year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. Citation formats are based on standards as of May 2025.
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