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- The Tern, or Australian sea-bird, finds its breeding place on the little island of Oyster Key, situated about thirty miles out at sea from Cairns, North Queensland, Australia. They are so numerous that, when flying, they form a sort of fog, and are so tame that the grinding of the camera does not in the least scare them.
- In a wild part of Australia, Wilson, an English trader in kangaroo skins, has his camp. Coming into daily contact with the black Negroes of that country, he becomes their friend and they, in return, protect him. An Englishman, a stranger, comes to the camp whom Wilson's black friends take an instinctive dislike to, but since he brings news of the outside world, the trader takes him in as a guest. Wilson receives gold for a consignment of skins, and. believing the stranger to be asleep, steals carefully away to place it in his secret hiding place. But his guest sees all, and, following him, learns of the hiding place. When Wilson returns the stranger is lying, as when be left, apparently asleep, but no sooner is the trader off his guard than his guest pounces upon him and deals a terrific blow. Then so as to point suspicion of the crime toward the black natives, he places spears about the trader's body and sets fire to the camp. The flames and smoke alarm the natives and they come in time to rescue their friend from being burned to death. Then, assured that his wounds are but slight they leave him and take up the trail of the culprit. The stranger having secured the gold takes refuge in the nearest village, spreading the news that the blacks have murdered Wilson. The village is aroused and a party sets out to avenge the crime. Meeting the blacks they learn the truth, verified by Wilson, and all make haste back to the village just in time to prevent the stranger from making his escape by boat.
- Two young Australian prospectors, Brown and Smith, ride up to a settler's shanty. The settler is an old man, living alone and endeavoring to clear a heavily stumped bit of land. He places before the visitors the best fare he has and moves off toward the creek with bucket in hand. Brown kindly relieves him of the bucket and himself goes to fetch the water. At the creek Brown discovers indications of gold. That evening, having accepted the old man's hospitality for the night, they steal off to the creek and their beliefs are confirmed. They buy out the settler for 100 pounds. Two years later a prosperous mine is developed. Brown sticks to the property, bat Smith sells out his half interest for 20,000 pounds and goes to the city. Brown becomes rich, and in his prosperity befriends the old settler making him confidential man at the mine. After ten years. Smith returns, a poor and dissipated tramp, to find his old partner still managing the mine, married, and happy in his home life. Smith is given a Job at the mine, and an attempt is made to reform him, but the seeds of envy are sown too deep. He is ungrateful, jealous, and sullen, and tries to rob the mine. The old settler foils the plot. Smith is driven away in disgrace, goes out prospecting for another mine, and dies of thirst in the bush, the end of a career along the gilded way.
- Sir George Waterbury, accompanied by his wife and foster brother, Robert, is on a shooting expedition in a wild part of Australia. The two men, although occupying different stations in life, are deeply attached to each other. Inadvertently, mistaking the victim for a tiger, they shoot a native, and as they both fired at the same instant, it cannot be told which was the one actually responsible for the fatal shot. The native's father, according to the savage doctrine "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." demands the death of the slayer. Robert would gladly yield himself up, but the nobleman will not assent to this. They resolve to decide the issue by cutting the cards. By a trick the heroic Robert cuts the low card, and goes cheerfully to his doom. But his act of self-sacrifice is discovered, and by the prompt action of Sir George, death is averted and the matter settled in a more amicable way.
- Rhodda, an old prospector, has been nursed through an attack of fever by Harry Murray, a young miner. In gratitude, he shows him a bag of rich specimens and marks on a map directions to find the reef from which they came. While Harry is absent getting food for the old man, the specimen bag, with the paper in it is stolen, also Rhodda's watch. The thief is a working miner named Hurley. When Harry returns to the cottage, Rhodda is overcome by the shock of the robbery and dies. He bequeaths the claim to Harry. A few days later, Jack Murray, the young miner's brother, arrives by train on the gold fields. By the same train comes a capitalist named Cuthbert, with his wife and their daughter, Hilda. Jack Murray has become friends with them on their way up. Also on the train is Colonel Baylor, a gentleman miner, who proves to be an associate of the working miner, Hurley. Hurley tells the colonel of a rich discovery he has made, really the dead prospector's claim. The colonel takes in Cuthbert as an associate to provide money for operations. Meanwhile, young Harry has told his brother Jack of the rich find, and of the robbery, and declares he remembers Rhodda's directions well enough to locate the claim. The two parties start almost at the same time for the same goal, nobody but Hurley knowing the fact. They camp near each other on the night before the place will be reached, and in the evening the Murrays visit the other camp, during which time Hurley steals off to their camp and drugs their coffee in the billy can. The two brothers do not awake until midday, to find the others gone ahead. They follow, only to find the colonel and Hurley in possession of the claim. Jack Murray, however, tackles them in a fight, and Rhodda's stolen watch is found in Hurley's belt pouch. The colonel disclaims all knowledge of the theft and voluntarily renounces his rights to the claim, and Hurley is allowed to go free by similarly surrendering the property. The Murrays are congratulated by Cuthbert and his daughter.
- Interesting views of the method employed in getting these gem-bearing oysters from the highly cultivated and well known beds at Thursday Island, just north of Cape York Peninsula, Australia.
- A party of English explorers make their way into the uncivilized region of Northern Queensland, Australia, and pitch camp. Jennings, one of the number, taking a little walk from the camp, is surprised by a tribe of aboriginal black fellows, who at first mean to kill and eat him, but beholding his white skin, the first white man they had ever seen, believe he is a god and receive him in honor. They are more convinced of his deity when he obtains fire from a match, whereas their method is antiquated and long. The black fellows amuse Jennings with a "Corroboree," a native savage dance, after which he wishes to make his departure, but the aboriginals hold him a prisoner of honor. Next morning all go hunting, the aboriginals with their spears, Jennings with his gun. The report of his gun so scares them that they flee. The Englishman attempts escape, but is tracked by the skilled black fellows and brought back to the chief. The chief, taking Jennings aside, surprises him by talking English, and explaining that he once lived among the white men, but has concealed the fact from his fellows, wishing them to preserve their primitive happiness. He offers to aid Jennings' escape if he promises to leave the land forever and take his white friends with him. The chief gives his fellows "pituri," the opium of the Australia aboriginal and soon they sink into profound slumber. He then carries the white man on his shoulders so as to leave no tracks and taking him to his camp in safety returns while his men still sleep. So that when they awake and can find no trace of the stranger, they raise their arms to the skies, believing he has returned there.
- Out of boredom, a high society girl visits her father's outback cattle station. After several adventures involving a gang of ruthless cattle duffers, she falls in love with the manager of the station. Only part of this silent film survives today.
- Young "Fatty" Finn and his friends enter their pet goat in a race, but his rival "Bruiser" Murphy lets the goat loose, right before the race.
- Follows the life experiences of the Morrison and Parry families as they establish themselves within a new and challenging colony in Sydney. Facing the many trials and tribulations of settlement life, their actions would go toward shaping the nation. Along with progress and burgeoning offspring their story continues into the next century, where the tale of a new generation is told - a tale of descendants on a Northern outback cattle station facing their own challenges and of a high flying and impressionable young heroine.
- Adventure story about the search for a legendary Great White Shark dubbed "White Death" off the coast of Australia.
- A white authoress, looking for a story in the outback, is kidnapped by an Afghan slaver, betrothed to a white jungle-man, and menaced by a jealous half-caste rival, a hostile witch-doctor, his crazed-killer son, and opium smugglers!
- A concert pianist, as concert panists are wont to do, goes pearl diving in the South Seas to find a giant pearl for his girlfriend. He does, and that's when all the trouble begins.
- From the Film Australia Collection. Made by The National Film Board 1947. Directed by Eric Thompson. Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, is very unlike Ipswich, England, after which it was named.
- The story of five brothers who homestead, with other settlers, on the virgin plateaus of the Australian bush country. In addition to being beset with the obstacles and difficulties with the land and nature, another complication arises when two of the brothers fall in love with the same woman.
- Oscar-winning documentary based on Rachel L. Carson's pioneering study of ocean life chronicled in her award-winning and best-selling 1951 book of the same name.
- A documentary film which follows a mailman as he travels along the Birdsville Track in the Outback.
- A human smuggling racket off the Australian coast prompts the authorities to request a pearl diver's help in the investigation.