40,000 Years of Dreaming (1997)

Documentary TV Movie

Australian born film maker George (Mad Max) Miller offers a personal view of Australian films. He suggests that they can be regarded as visual music, public dreaming, mythology, and song-lines. In extrapolating the idea of movies as song-lines he examines feature films under the following categories : songs of the land ; the bushman ; the convicts ; the bush-rangers ; mates and larrikins ; the digger ; pommy bashing ; the sheilas ; gays ; the wogs ; blackfellas ; urban subversion. He then concludes that these films can be thought of as "Hymns that sing of Australia

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1997-11-10

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Runtime: 67 mins Rating: 6.3 Tag Line: The British Film Institute Presents The Century of Cinema: Australia and New Zealand

Cast

George Miller

Himself

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Cast

George Miller

Himself

Crew

Dion Beebe

Director of Photography

Doug Mitchell

Producer

George Miller

Director

George Miller

Writer

George Miller

Producer

Margaret Sixel

Editor

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FACTS

Cast

George Miller

Himself

Crew

Dion Beebe

Director of Photography

Doug Mitchell

Producer

George Miller

Director

George Miller

Writer

George Miller

Producer

Margaret Sixel

Editor

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