From the first Sky album can be heard many excerpts from Where Opposites Meet and a brief excerpt of Danza. From Sky 2 we hear excerpts from the 3rd mvt of FIFO (Scherzo) and a brief excerpt from Dance of the Little Fairies.
The wildness and beauty of the inhospitable australian outbacks always interested me. This old charm rail video proved quite informative more about it's history. Many a time before the name GHAN railway in Australia had me thinking about it's peculiarity but never aroused in me the need to check the mystery behind its origin, and here in this wonderful doc i learnt about the GHAN history 😆.
@ 55:57 this video dates itself with the old style of dial telephone, that tells you how old this footage is, Hell, when I was kid we had a 3-diget phone number and it was on a common line, so you could pick up the receiver and listen into another conversation.
3:09 - Ross Campbell is seeing Michael Frayn off from Sydney's Central Station. He was a humourous newspaper and magazine columnist who'd write about his family but change the names - Laura was 'Little Nell' (from Dickens' 'The Old Curiosity Shop') and it was under this name that she appeared in 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show', later running the legendary 80s New York nightclub Nell's.
Loved this, but like so many documentaries, the music is way too loud / much louder than the dialog. I have to turn the volume up to hear the dialog, only to have the music come blasting, and I'm constantly changing the volume... very annoying. The content is great... thanks for posting.
Very interesting, although terribly Anglo-centric and does nothing to contradict the myth of terra nullius. It's of its time I suppose. Some token acknowledgement of the traditional indigenous owners of Australia would have been nice though.
It's interesting to compare it to Zambezi Express from the same series. Michael Wood found it much easier to condemn the South African and Rhodesian regimes of the day.
Michael Wood did a way better job with South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe-Rhodesia as it then was in this series. In contrast I'd argue Miles Kington did a worse job with Peru and Bolivia......felt like someone from the colonial office traveling around.
