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Lockhart Festival [videorecording]
- Title
- Lockhart Festival [videorecording]
- Publication
- 1974.
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- Description
- 1 cassette. 33 min. : sd. color PAL.; 1/2 in. (VHS)
- Summary
- Documentary on a dance festival organized by the Aboriginal people of Lockhart River in Queensland, Australia, and sponsored by the Aboriginal Theatre Foundation. Organizer Jerry Pascoe talks about the festival, which involved dancers from many other tribal groups, and the revival of Aboriginal dances in the schools.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Anthropological films and programs.
- Note
- Produced for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. Producer/director: Curtis Levy. Associate producer/anthropological advisor: John von Sturmer. Anthropological consultant: Athol Chase. Camera: Richard Tucker. Sound: Kevin Kearney, Bryan Butler.
- Contents
- DANCE CONTENTS. - Rehearsal of a boys' dance, performed by Lockhart dancers. Rainbird (guwak) dance, performed by the Groote Eylandt group. Frilled-necked lizard (minh poyntyath) dance, performed by the Wanam group of western Cape York. Old man (pama thump wootyoram) dance, performed by the Thaa York group. Shark hunting dance, performed by the Aaplaty group of western Cape York. Red kangaroo (kuympatyi) dance, performed by the Lockhart group. Feather (thuthu puntha piya) dance, performed by the Wanam group. Devil (ngangka thant) dance, performed by the Wanam group. Boys' dance, performed by the Lockhart group.
- Call Number
- *MGZIA 4-1067
- OCLC
- NYPY916012393-F
- Title
- Lockhart Festival [videorecording]
- Imprint
- 1974.
- Local Subject
- Australian aborigines -- Dances.Television. Lockhart Festival.
- Local Subject
- Bird dances.Animal dances.Initiation dances.Child dancers.
- Added Author
- Levy, Curtis. Producer. DirectorAustralian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.Aboriginal Cultural Foundation.
- Research Call Number
- *MGZIA 4-1067