| Record Number |
770869 |
| Title |
Contact [videorecording]. |
| Publisher/Date |
Australia : Distributed by Umbrella Entertainment, ©2017. |
| Pagination etc. |
1 DVD-video (78 minutes) : sound, colour ; 12 cm. |
| Contents note |
Catalogued from container. |
| Umbrella Entertainment : DAVID3684. |
| Originally produced in 2009. |
| "In 1964, Yuwali was 17 when her first contact with whitefellas was filmed. This is her story" -- Cover. |
| Screen Australia and Contact Films presents in association with Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Arte France and The Martu Community. |
| Based on an original book 'Cleared out' by Sue Davenport, Peter Johnson & Yuwali. |
| WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that the following program may contain images and voices of deceased persons. |
| Creation Note |
Directed by Bentley Dean, Martin Butler. |
| Summary Note |
In 1964 where a group of 20 Martu women and children walked out of the Great Sandy Desert into a new universe of European modernity. The event was only captured on film because scientists were testing the Blue Streak Rocket in the desert at the time. Many of the players on both sides are alive to recreate and tell their story. |
| Target audience note |
Censorship classification : PG. |
| Language note |
In English and Martu languages. English subtitles. |
| Subject - Name |
Yuwali -- Film adaptations |
| Davenport, Sue -- Film adaptations |
| Johnson, Peter -- Film adaptations |
| Yuwali |
| Subject |
Woomera Rocket Range History. |
| Aboriginal Australians -- South Australia -- Woomera -- Government relations |
| Aboriginal Australians -- South Australia -- Woomera |
| Guided missiles -- Testing -- South Australia -- Woomera |
| Film adaptations |
| Aboriginal Australians -- South Australia -- Woomera -- Government relations |
| Aboriginal Australians -- South Australia -- Woomera |
| Guided missiles -- Testing -- South Australia -- Woomera |
| Woomera (S. Aust.) -- History |
| Biographical films. |
| Nonfiction films. |
| Documentary films. |
| Added Author |
Butler, Martin film producer,
film director. |
Dean, Bentley film producer,
film director. |
| Yuwali Cleared out: first contact in the western desert. |
| Davenport, Sue Cleared out: first contact in the western desert. |
| Johnson, Peter Cleared out: first contact in the western desert. |
| Corporate Author |
Contact Films production company. |
| Screen Australia production company. |
| Umbrella Entertainment (Firm) distributor. |
| Added title |
Contact (Documentary film : 2009) |
| Shelf Location |
DVD 994.238 CONT |
