Author: National Film and Sound Archive (Australia)
Call no: 994.12 ALB
Year: 1997
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Shows rarely seen images of the Great Southern district of Western Australia. Featuring towns of Albany, Kendenup, Bunbury, Busselton, Manjimup, Pemberton and Margaret River. Highlights include how the hardwood forests were harvested
by expert axemen and bullock teams in the 1930s, the whaling industry as it was in the 1950s and how the area was promoted to the tourist in the 1960s.
A collection of mostly Western Australian stories based on Bunbury's oral history radio features. It is a tapestry of snapshots across time from before European settlement through to the late twentieth century. Stories range from
the fascinating account of the 1711 wreck of the Dutch ship, Zuytdorp; an Australian soldier's remarkable escape and lone voyage across the Mediterranean in the 1940s; and the inspiring late twentieth century journey of a rural community to Reconciliation.
