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  • TV Episode | 67 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Century of Cinema

40,000 years of dreaming (Season 1, Episode 15)
TV Episode | 67 min | Documentary, Biography, History
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 ...See moreAustralian 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". Written by Simon Hart See less
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Director
George Miller
Writer
George Miller (written by)
Producers
George Miller (producer) | Doug Mitchell (producer)
Composer
Carl Vine
Cinematographer
Dion Beebe
Editor
Margaret Sixel
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Status
Edit Released
Updated Nov 21, 1996
Release date
Nov 21, 1996 (United States)

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