Australian documentary which saw a theatrical release in 1975. Some of the content is purely ficticious having been manufactured by the producers in a bid to make the feature more entertaining.
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00:00:00In this hot, dry country of Australia, the land belongs to the sun-baked rocks, the lizard,
00:00:12the eternal flat landscape.
00:00:15The Australian aborigines survived for thousands of years in a land hostile to men.
00:00:20They survived because they knew the way of the water, the tracks of the animals, the
00:00:25secret hiding places of the insects.
00:00:28Now they live on the fringes, exiled in their own country.
00:00:35The white man came.
00:00:36In less than two centuries, the hard-drinking descendants of convicts had transformed an
00:00:41empty continent into a country with the fourth highest standard of living in the world.
00:00:47In our journey around this continent, we will explore the weird, the pathetic, the unknown,
00:00:52the erotic, the ugly, the obscene, and the beautiful.
00:00:56It won't all be beautiful, but it is all true.
00:01:00We do not see the dark side of the moon, and we do not often see the dark side of life
00:01:05in the lucky country.
00:01:07This film takes you to see that dark side, a strange and sometimes disturbing trip around
00:01:14darkest Australia, a high standard of living and a high standard of dying.
00:01:20The bridge, a vast coat hanger arched over the waters of Sydney Harbour, it draws the
00:01:26eyes like a magnet, and it draws the hopeless, the despairing, the suicides who take their
00:01:32last journey off the bridge.
00:01:35There are over two and a half million people living in Sydney.
00:01:39Every year, one of them takes the long drop.
00:02:56King's Cross turns its back on the waters of Sydney Harbour, sleazy, grubby, neon-lit,
00:03:12crowded after dark with the curious, the wanderers, the pleasure-seekers, ladies of the night,
00:03:18their customers, pimps, brothel-keepers, strippers taking off their clothes in one club, putting
00:03:23them on again to go to the next club, and then stripping again.
00:03:28It takes a lot out of a girl's wardrobe.
00:03:51But the cross looks tired, not so way out anymore.
00:03:55To find where the real action is now, we must look behind the bright lights, behind the
00:04:00blue and red spotlights of the strip club for something darker, older, more primitive.
00:04:23We are in the salon of Madam Lash, a lady disciple of the late Maki Desai, who gave
00:04:29his name to sadism, and a disciple of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, who gave his name to masochism,
00:04:36the pleasure of receiving pay.
00:04:39Nostalgia, tradition, going back to the old days when men were men.
00:05:07Oh, look at that rack.
00:05:30You don't see craftsmanship like that these days.
00:05:37Fed up with the same old meals, tired of steak and oysters?
00:05:41For the gourmet who has tried it all, there's an ethnic restaurant on a Murray River boat
00:05:45at Swan Hill.
00:05:47For the tired palate, try witchetty grub.
00:05:50Plump and white, it grows to maturity under the bark of a tree.
00:06:16If you happen to catch a snake, Captain Beatty will pay you for it at the rate of a dollar
00:06:19a foot.
00:06:21The trick is getting the skin off.
00:06:24It's quite easy when you've got the neck.
00:06:25The gleaming skin comes away like black net stockings off a stripper's thigh.
00:06:33Like the missionary in a cannibal stew, they wriggle a little, but not for long.
00:06:37In ten seconds, they are dead, and they make no noise about it.
00:06:41In a few more seconds, they're ready to serve.
00:06:44But for the do-it-yourself cooks, here's a recipe.
00:06:47After dicing the skinned snake into two-inch lengths, coat with flour and place in a hot
00:06:52pan.
00:06:53When it's brown, add chopped carrots, potatoes, celery, onions, yabby tails, and a clove of
00:06:59garlic.
00:07:00Simmer for 15 minutes, then add one gill of cream and two gills of Riesling.
00:07:05Reduce the sauce until thick, and it's ready to serve with a wedge of lemon.
00:07:12Oh, well, Australians have always liked their grub well-cooked.
00:07:20Mmm, appetizing.
00:07:31Snakes and witchetty grubs are all very well on holidays, but when you're back in Sydney,
00:07:34you want the old familiar food.
00:07:36The eternal gravy, sardine, pea-decorated, shirt-staining, never-to-be-equaled, life-saving
00:07:41Australian pie and sauce.
00:07:44Conveniently situated for the man about town at the Calcutta end of Woolloomooloo, Harry's
00:07:49Café de Wheels.
00:08:10Australian painters are famous the world over.
00:08:12Nolan, Boyd, Percival, French, all command enormous prices at art auctions.
00:08:19For the Australian art connoisseur, nothing is so creative, so relaxing as getting out
00:08:24the brushes and paints at the end of a hard day.
00:08:27For the businessman, it brings the pleasure of great art into the rough world of commerce.
00:08:32The brushwork is gentle, stimulating.
00:08:36And of all the subjects for painting, nothing is so satisfying and so traditional as painting
00:08:41the live model.
00:08:44Here in Sydney at Tomboy Studios for a small fee, you can get yourself an attractive model
00:08:50and enough paint to indulge in your own private artistic fantasies.
00:09:14The subtle play of muscles under the skin, the soft swelling curves of flesh, all take
00:09:19on a new and vibrant life.
00:09:22Even the model enjoys it.
00:09:25Perhaps she dreams that one day she will hang in the National Gallery.
00:09:29Now, that's what I call a living work of art.
00:09:42Autumn Land, 400 miles inland, the oldest art gallery in the continent.
00:09:49Where else but in Australia are there art galleries where the paintings are 30,000 years
00:09:53old?
00:09:54Once this whole area was an inland sea.
00:09:58The sea receded, leaving behind seashells and marine fossils.
00:10:02The rocks are a natural palette with holes for mixing the paints made from the ochres
00:10:07of the desert earth.
00:10:32Inside the caves, the pictures show the history of the Aboriginal people.
00:10:36What they saw and ate and hunted.
00:10:41Here is an ocean fish frozen by the hand of a black artist who lived long before the pyramids
00:10:45were built, and a giant kangaroo, the totem of the tribe.
00:10:52Somebody put his outstretched hand against the surface of the rock wall, filled his mouth
00:10:56with ochre and water, sprayed the hand, and left an eternal handprint.
00:11:01And here's a picture of a great hunt, celebrating the killing and eating, the survival skills
00:11:07which kept them alive millennia ago.
00:11:37Life is movement, from the Aboriginal corroboree to the dance of the hours.
00:11:56Here's Pembethy, a classical artist, turns his painting studio into a dance floor.
00:12:56The
00:13:26dancers are covered with paint, and the paint releases their inhibitions.
00:13:31Their nakedness stirs memories deep in their consciousness, memories of folk dances, tribal
00:13:36dances when painted bodies made free offerings of themselves to the spirits of the dance.
00:13:48As their bodies turn, they flatten themselves lovingly against the wall or on the floor.
00:13:53The movement is transferred into a painted mural.
00:13:58The mural is a live representation of the dance, its movements trapped in color and lines.
00:14:23Remember kindergarten finger paintings, dabbling your hands into the oozing paint?
00:14:39This is grown-up finger painting, painting with a whole body.
00:14:45Kindergarten was never like this.
00:14:47Wes works hard poking his brush at the surface, but for the girls it's all joy and fun and
00:14:51movement.
00:14:52Afterwards, home to the suburbs.
00:14:54In the 1880s, there was a boom.
00:15:24A boom in the hanging industry.
00:15:27These gallows, now still and silent in the old Melbourne jail, were the most important
00:15:31piece of machinery in Melbourne town.
00:15:34The man in charge of them was no ordinary public servant.
00:15:37He never kept his customers waiting.
00:15:39His rope was always in perfect order, never lost in the filing system.
00:15:44Even the hangman died.
00:15:46This is the death mask of hangman Henry Jones.
00:15:49But he didn't put the rope around his own neck.
00:15:53A quick, deep stroke with an open razor slit his throat.
00:15:58No long drop for him.
00:16:00He committed suicide rather than hang Mrs. Frances Knorr, a nice motherly soul who, for
00:16:06a trifling fee of five pounds, would adopt unwanted children.
00:16:10She then showed the kids just how unwanted they were by murdering them and pocketing
00:16:14the fee.
00:16:16This macabre gallery of murderers make the waxworks look like children's toys.
00:16:21The moment the prisoner had been hanged by the neck and the doctor had certified that
00:16:25the operation had been successful, a plaster of Paris impression was made of the face.
00:16:31The Italian surgeon Cesare Lombrosa developed the theory that you could study the faces
00:16:35of criminals and decide what sort of facial characteristics indicated criminal tendencies.
00:16:41Charles John Hull.
00:16:44He drowned his pregnant wife in the bath and then claimed she had committed suicide.
00:16:49They didn't believe him.
00:16:51Emma Williams, born 1868, executed October 1895.
00:16:57She killed her child by throwing the infant into what was then known as the Albert Park
00:17:01Lagoon.
00:17:02Now, there's a serene face, an archbishop, a saint, a learned professor, no, but a national
00:17:11hero just the same.
00:17:14The greatest of the bush rangers, Ed Kelly.
00:17:17His warm and generous lips had scarcely finished delivering his famous last words.
00:17:23As the rope was put around his neck, he shrugged and said, such is life.
00:17:29Such is life indeed.
00:17:31Martha Needle, Lucretia Borgia and arsenic and old lace in person.
00:17:36She got through a husband and three children.
00:17:38And when her second husband died so surprisingly, they exhumed his body and found traces of
00:17:43arsenic.
00:17:44And there were no prizes for guessing what the authorities found when they dug her first
00:17:48husband up.
00:17:49Now, here's an interesting face, businessman, cabinet minister, Frederick Bailey Deeming,
00:17:56English migrant.
00:17:58The neighbors complained about a smell coming from under his house, rats or drains, the
00:18:04rotting corpse of his murdered wife.
00:18:07He was suspected of being the original Jack the Ripper, leaving the old country to make
00:18:11a fresh start in the murder business in sunny Australia.
00:18:22In drought-stricken Australia, everyone has water on the brain, particularly in the Northern
00:18:27Territory, though they don't drink much water.
00:18:30In Alice Springs, they think it is unfair that they can't have a regatta like the Henley
00:18:35Regatta and all because of a trifling problem of having no water in the local river.
00:18:40So, at Henley-on-Tord, they do have a regatta, a dehydrated regatta, instant boat races and
00:18:47you don't even have to add water.
00:18:49The boats have no bottles.
00:18:51Why didn't we all think of that?
00:18:53It makes them unsinkable.
00:18:56The river is a dried-up creek bed.
00:18:59Though some of the spectators maintain there's enough beer drunk at the regatta to float
00:19:03a battleship, well, who's going to waste beer to float things on?
00:19:07It's not quite the Oxford and Cambridge boat race.
00:19:11The result is much less predictable, depending on how much amber fluid the rowers have got
00:19:14inside them.
00:19:15A beauty contest for the queen of the regatta.
00:19:18Didn't know there were that many queens in the Northern Territory.
00:19:37When I say float a battleship, they do just that.
00:19:40The sea battle with flower bombs and beer can artillery.
00:19:44There's even a Viking ship.
00:19:46You never know where those Vikings will turn up next.
00:19:58At any Australian festival, even a waterless regatta, there will be gambling.
00:20:03Australians will bet on anything that moves.
00:20:05Horses, dogs, goats, kangaroos, political elections, flies on the ceiling, or cockroaches
00:20:10on the floor.
00:20:11Come in, spinner.
00:20:12The center is set.
00:20:13The guts is set.
00:20:14But the side hasn't been set.
00:20:15There's a man over here with $50.
00:20:18But the thing they most like to bet on is the national game of two-up.
00:20:24Simple rules, high stakes.
00:20:26The coins fly in the air spinning and come down onto the blanket.
00:20:30$1,000 changes hands in as many seconds.
00:20:32He's headed him.
00:20:33Beautiful head.
00:20:34He's headed him.
00:20:35Beautiful head.
00:20:36Beautiful head.
00:20:37Terrific spinner.
00:20:38What place did I fire these heads?
00:20:3910 on the head.
00:20:40I got 20.
00:20:4120 or dirt.
00:20:42You got another 20.
00:20:43I tell you, you got 20.
00:20:44Right.
00:20:45Right there.
00:20:46Right.
00:20:47Right.
00:20:48And the target holds the money again.
00:20:49Right.
00:20:50How would you like it?
00:20:5110 on the head.
00:20:5210 on the head.
00:20:53You hold the money.
00:20:54Target holds the money.
00:20:55Hang on.
00:20:56Give it back to me.
00:20:57That's wrong.
00:20:58Hang on to that one.
00:21:00I'll take these $50 bits.
00:21:01They're beautiful.
00:21:02I'll take that any time.
00:21:03Hello.
00:21:04We've got a cover all right.
00:21:05200 in the guts now.
00:21:06100 for a head.
00:21:07100 for a head.
00:21:08Hey, can you sit on the side?
00:21:0910 on the head.
00:21:10Sit.
00:21:11Sit on the side.
00:21:1210 on the tail.
00:21:13Coins correct.
00:21:14Give him a 10.
00:21:1510 on the head.
00:21:1610 on the head.
00:21:1710 on the head.
00:21:1810 on the head.
00:21:1910 on the head.
00:21:20Bloody tails are gone.
00:21:21100.
00:21:22Tails there.
00:21:23100.
00:21:24Tails there.
00:21:25150 in there.
00:21:26200 that was.
00:21:27Take it.
00:21:28200 that was.
00:21:29Take it.
00:21:30210.
00:21:31220.
00:21:32230.
00:21:33240.
00:21:34250.
00:21:35260.
00:21:36270.
00:21:37280.
00:21:38290.
00:21:39300.
00:21:40310.
00:21:59It's a big country.
00:22:25You can be a member of the Jet Set without ever leaving Australia.
00:22:30When the wind blows cold in the south, the Jet Setters fly up to the warm north like
00:23:04It's the birds they're looking at too.
00:23:34Here on the Gold Coast, the 20 miles of beaches which are Australia's playground, the home
00:23:39of a bikini.
00:23:41It was on the beaches of Surfer's Paradise that the bikini first found acceptance.
00:23:46Yes, very acceptable.
00:23:55Here in this shop is Mr. Barry Goodwill, the man with the job everyone else in Australia
00:24:11wants, who wants to be Prime Minister when you can make a good living designing custom-fitting
00:24:16bikinis.
00:24:18When you're making something so small, it has got to be good.
00:24:21You need the skill of a watchmaker and the eyes of a birdwatcher.
00:24:26Every bikini is different.
00:24:28Sometimes they roll along, sometimes they're firm and tight, sometimes they're fighting
00:24:32a losing battle to stay on.
00:24:34But at Surfer's, who cares if they lose the battle?
00:24:38This customer knows what she wants.
00:24:40It's his business to see if she gets it.
00:25:07Observe the practiced hand of the craftsman like skill of his fingers, his dedication
00:25:23to his work.
00:25:24In a world where craftsmanship is dying, it's good to see a man putting all he's got into
00:25:29his job.
00:25:45It's a competitive country.
00:25:47Every beat tries to do a little better and show a little more enterprise.
00:25:51A thousand miles north of the Gold Coast, Daydream Island on the Barrier Reef.
00:25:57Right name.
00:25:58You've never seen such eye-popping daydreams as this, or nightdreams, either.
00:26:03For formal wear, the girls put on bikinis.
00:26:06For swimming, they're just lazing in the sun, it doesn't do it if you're overdressed.
00:26:10Nude bathing is perfectly legal on these beaches.
00:26:28So, Daydream Island looks like this.
00:26:58Like the Garden of Eden with a hundred eaves and a few happy atoms, and there aren't any
00:27:03snakes to ruin this garden.
00:27:06The girls come up to get a tan on those white patches their bikinis made at surface.
00:27:11Hard work, girls.
00:27:13All over tan needs discipline and oil, sun, and salt water, and more oil, and more sun.
00:27:28See that one?
00:27:44She's a mermaid.
00:27:45Came straight off the reef.
00:27:48Swim around and see what her tail looks like.
00:27:55Even after dark, there's not much point in dressing for dinner.
00:27:58And there's not much point in wearing a bikini when no one will see it.
00:28:25Deep in the heart of Arnhem Land, the haunting sound of the didgeridoo.
00:28:34Up here, the average life expectancy of the adult male aboriginal is 43 years.
00:28:39A lot of them don't make it, they die as babies.
00:28:44The infant mortality rate is higher than the poorest areas of India.
00:29:08And now you smile, you cannot hide the tears in your mind.
00:29:19Memories come floating at night through your window, and loneliness knocks at your door.
00:29:31But if you had your way, you would turn back the time.
00:29:38Stone-age men stoned on alcohol rushed into the 20th century.
00:29:43This is a Darwin bottle shop.
00:29:46We're told it has the highest sale of any bottle shop in Australia.
00:29:51Life is short and seldom merry.
00:29:55It's payday here in Darwin.
00:30:02The bottle shop can't keep up with the demand.
00:30:05When you're black, you have lost your tribal lands.
00:30:08When you're black and you've lost the folkways of your ancestors.
00:30:11When you're black and you have money, but money is not part of your tribal culture, what do you do?
00:30:17You drink and forget the memories of the dream time.
00:30:22The dream time has turned into a nightmare.
00:30:24There's always someone waiting to sell you a bottle of self-destruction.
00:30:28After all, you're Australian now.
00:30:31You've got the right to drink.
00:30:52There's a pub on every corner in Australia,
00:30:55and every man, woman and child in the country drinks around 20 gallons every year.
00:31:00And some of them steal the children's rations.
00:31:04Beer drinking is a way of life.
00:31:10The empties lie in heaps, stretching from Darwin to Adelaide and Perth to Brisbane.
00:31:17When the archaeologists of 3000 A.D. start to dig up our remains,
00:31:21they will think that Australians worshipped a god shaped in the form of a bottle.
00:31:26Though the heaviest beer drinkers in the world are said to be the Germans and the English,
00:31:30one particular area stands out above all others.
00:31:34In the Northern Territory of Australia,
00:31:37the annual intake has been estimated as being as high as 52 gallons per person.
00:31:44The Society for the Prevention of Alcoholism in Darwin had to be disbanded in 1966 for lack of support.
00:31:56The Mildura Workingmen's Club is a general motors of the beer industry.
00:32:00Beer drinking has been turned into a production line.
00:32:03This is the longest bar in the world, listed in the Guinness Book of Records,
00:32:07in case you think we made that up after spending too long at the club.
00:32:15In the Guinness Book of Records, this man, known to his friends as the Whippet,
00:32:19once held the world beer drinking record.
00:32:22It shows.
00:32:24He now weighs 28 stone.
00:32:27Like all great champions, he has to keep in training.
00:32:30One day he'll have another shot at the record.
00:32:34Through nearly 2,000 years of history,
00:32:38more murders,
00:32:41ripes,
00:32:43torture
00:32:45of human victims have been committed
00:32:49by Christianity
00:32:52and religions
00:32:55who believe in a single diet.
00:32:59Who believe in a single diet
00:33:03than in any form of witchcraft together.
00:33:12Witches practice magic.
00:33:14They attempt to use supernatural powers
00:33:17by appealing to the spirits which are everywhere in the world.
00:33:20Eddie Pielke is a male witch
00:33:23who uses his powers for good rather than evil
00:33:26to practice white magic, not black magic.
00:33:29To have access to the spirits of a world
00:33:32older than any religion we know.
00:33:35Our ceremonies are designed
00:33:38to free the human mind
00:33:41from this prison
00:33:44which a Christian society has brainwashed them into.
00:33:49But they are also designed
00:33:53to make use of the individual
00:33:57and the group power of mind
00:34:01in order to achieve
00:34:04what you can do in natural metaphysics
00:34:07which society
00:34:10in true hostility
00:34:13will call witchcraft.
00:34:16Directed towards the targets
00:34:20of the covenant
00:34:23and in combined effort
00:34:26we shall make it true.
00:34:45When God looks in the mirror he sees himself reversed.
00:34:48He sees the devil.
00:34:51Where there is a God there is a devil.
00:34:54Where there is a priest there is a witch.
00:34:57Black witchcraft ceremonies are weird and frightening.
00:35:01We witnessed such a ceremony
00:35:04in the middle of a forest not far from Melbourne.
00:35:07What you are now seeing has seldom been photographed
00:35:10and there was much more that we were not permitted to photograph.
00:35:48The Ceremonies Release the Inhibitions of the Devotees
00:36:10The ceremonies release the inhibitions of the devotees.
00:36:15They take these Australians back into the remotest past,
00:36:18back into the unknown dark,
00:36:21the prehistoric darkness long before the bright lights of the 1970s.
00:36:26The rituals are the reverse of the Christian practice.
00:36:30It is not a man on the cross, it is a woman
00:36:33and the cross is upside down.
00:36:36She is undergoing the frightening ordeal of initiation into the coven.
00:36:41The old gods are knocking at the door of 20th century men and women
00:36:45frightened by the evil of what they see in the world.
00:36:48The mindless, threatening violence, terrified of the future,
00:36:51discontented with the present.
00:36:54The witch believes that the answer is somewhere in the past,
00:36:58in the spirits of good and evil, in ecstatic self-knowledge,
00:37:02ideas which have haunted the imagination through the centuries.
00:37:11The Ceremonies Release the Inhibitions of the Devotees
00:37:41The Ceremonies Release the Inhibitions of the Devotees
00:38:11The Ceremonies Release the Inhibitions of the Devotees
00:38:32Just a few hundred years ago they would have been burned at the stake
00:38:35for performing this ceremony.
00:38:37The last witch was executed in England less than 300 years ago, in 1684.
00:38:43In Australia, after dark, they still call on the dark spirits
00:38:48and few of us can be sure whether the spirits answer them.
00:38:53The ceremony is over, the ritual completed.
00:39:00On the far side of Australia,
00:39:02lapped by the warm waters of the Indian Ocean, is Perth,
00:39:06a far-out city, far out in every way.
00:39:10It's a cheerful, bright, sunny place, broad streets and elegant buildings,
00:39:14a gay city, a very gay city, homosexual capital of the country.
00:39:20Perth, it seems, has a higher proportion of homosexuals
00:39:24than any other city in Australia.
00:39:37The Ceremonies Release the Inhibitions of the Devotees
00:39:47Male homosexuals have come out of the dark.
00:39:50When they come out, they claim all the rights of straight society.
00:39:54In a time of changing sexual habits,
00:39:56they demand the same rights for their kind of love.
00:39:59They want to take their union seriously.
00:40:02They have found the Reverend Mario Schoonmaker,
00:40:05who is willing to sanctify their kind of marriage with a marriage service.
00:40:10Our friends, David and Philip,
00:40:13having found in each other the reflection of divine love,
00:40:16and to the end that their love for one another may be more perfectly fulfilled,
00:40:21have come before God and in our presence
00:40:24to be consecrated in that love,
00:40:27which they have for one another,
00:40:29and to be united in this covenant.
00:40:32David, will you take Philip as your companion in this covenant of love?
00:40:38Will you love him, comfort him, honour and keep him
00:40:43in sickness and in health, and be faithful to him?
00:40:48Philip, will you take David as your companion in this covenant of love?
00:40:54Will you love him, comfort him, honour and keep him
00:40:59in sickness and in health, and be faithful to him?
00:41:02I do.
00:41:04I call upon these persons here present
00:41:09to witness that I, Philip,
00:41:12do take you, David,
00:41:14to be my loving companion
00:41:17in accordance with God's holy will
00:41:20to have and to hold
00:41:22from this day forward
00:41:24for better, for worse
00:41:26for richer and poorer
00:41:28in sickness and in health
00:41:31to love and to cherish
00:41:33and to this end
00:41:35I pledge my word.
00:41:42Bless and hallow this ring, O Christ, Lord of love,
00:41:46that I, who wear it, may ever keep true faith to this covenant
00:41:50and so, abiding in your peace
00:41:52and in conformity with your holy will
00:41:55may live in love unchanging.
00:42:04With this ring
00:42:06I pledge myself to you
00:42:09in this covenant of love.
00:42:12With my body I reverence you
00:42:15with my heart I enfold you
00:42:18with my strength I protect you
00:42:21and with my love I surround you.
00:42:24Amen.
00:42:32With this ring
00:42:34I pledge myself to you
00:42:37in this covenant of love.
00:42:40With my body I reverence you
00:42:43with my heart I enfold you
00:42:46with my strength I protect you
00:42:49and with my love I surround you.
00:42:52Amen.
00:42:57David and Phelps have declared before God and their friends gathered here
00:43:02that they will live together in this holy covenant of love.
00:43:06They have made sacred promises to each other.
00:43:09They have symbolized this by joining hands and receiving a ring.
00:43:13I, the Reverend Mario Schoonmaker
00:43:16by the authority given unto me
00:43:18pronounce them therefore to be joined together in this holy covenant
00:43:22in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
00:43:25They are now assuredly accepted before God
00:43:29and what God has joined together
00:43:31men must never separate.
00:43:39Amen.
00:43:52Here in Perth
00:43:54a wedding between two people of the same sex is frowned upon
00:43:57but not illegal.
00:43:59So they go off on their honeymoon
00:44:01the bride picking the confetti out of his wedding outfit
00:44:04testing what we used to call
00:44:06the love that dare not say its name.
00:44:09Good luck David and Philip, you'll need it.
00:44:12All married couples need it.
00:45:04No, not just another stripper.
00:45:25She makes the same moves and the same removals
00:45:28the art form pioneered by Gypsy Rose Lee
00:45:31but watch her carefully.
00:45:33What sort of a woman is she?
00:45:35Is she a woman?
00:45:37Or is she something in between?
00:45:39A woman's nature trapped in a man's body
00:45:41caught between two sexual worlds not knowing which way to turn.
00:45:46But she is a man.
00:45:48At least some of her is a man.
00:46:03She's a woman.
00:46:34Under the hot red lights, the sexy thrust of the music
00:46:38the body waits for a sex change operation.
00:46:42Look at her carefully, as if you weren't.
00:46:45Observe the final revelation
00:46:47the seventh veil, the climax
00:46:51and make your own choice.
00:46:54Look at her carefully, as if you weren't.
00:46:56Observe the final revelation
00:46:59the seventh veil, the climax
00:47:02and make your own decision.
00:47:25New Guinea masks and carvings.
00:47:28They represent gods who traditionally came out of the sky.
00:47:32The belts, the helmets, the rivets
00:47:35all suggest spacesuits.
00:47:38For the New Guineans there is no doubt
00:47:40these are the masks of creatures
00:47:42who stepped out of the chariots of the gods.
00:47:46In the north Queensland town of Tully
00:47:49it rains by the yard
00:47:51In the north Queensland town of Tully
00:47:53it rains by the yard
00:47:55which may be the reason why creatures from outer space
00:47:57keep landing there to fill the radiators of their flying saucers.
00:48:00Mrs. Clare Noble, a very ordinary sensible lady
00:48:03has recorded many sightings and traces of landings.
00:48:07But the Tully sightings in 65
00:48:09started I would say in the November period
00:48:13and then in the 1966, 67, 68
00:48:16was really an invasion.
00:48:18Many of the Tully's saucer lights
00:48:20have been seen coming in from the east
00:48:23crossing across the cane fields
00:48:26and heading along the foothills of Mount Mackay
00:48:29which you can see in the distance there
00:48:31then following along across the valley
00:48:34and up to the back of a certain part of the Mount Tyson area.
00:48:38But there have been other markings found in the area
00:48:41some in the cane fields
00:48:43some up the Tully River Gorge
00:48:45some just outside of the town area.
00:48:49Saucer crafts have been seen taking off from cane fields
00:48:55hovering low above the cane
00:48:59at the early morning and dusk as well.
00:49:02These crafts have been different sizes
00:49:06it's very hard to tell of course.
00:49:08We've had trains followed
00:49:11and people in cars followed
00:49:13and very much frightened too.
00:49:15They put their big beam light down
00:49:18which has been down in many parts of the town.
00:49:21The meaning of the flying saucers in our atmosphere
00:49:25is simply that the elder brothers in charge of them
00:49:29on many levels of consciousness above us
00:49:32they are here for two purposes.
00:49:35One, now that we've got atomic power
00:49:38a third world war breaks out and gets out of control
00:49:41we would run the risk of destroying the planet.
00:49:45Consequently our elder brothers are going to see
00:49:48that we do not destroy the planet.
00:49:50And the other reason that they're here
00:49:52to conduct the transmutation of this planet
00:49:56into the new heaven and the new earth
00:49:59as predicted in the Bible.
00:50:01So you come up against all this different variety of space beings
00:50:05but you're dealing with interdimensional and interplanetary beings.
00:50:08Many different types have been seen
00:50:10from the very big tall men of 9 feet, 7 feet.
00:50:15Over the last few years
00:50:17the 3 to 4 feet height have come into the picture more so.
00:50:21And these are the little humanoid types.
00:50:24And they've been seen taking in boulders, sand, plants
00:50:29clippings and grass, leaves, flowers, the whole works.
00:50:35And they have a different facial structure, slanted eyes
00:50:39and sometimes no lips.
00:50:42The very big bulbous heads and phenomenal strength.
00:50:47They've been very hairy too.
00:50:50I think that it's more than time that people sat up
00:50:53and took notice of the whole flying saucer business.
00:50:57In this last year every hour there have been 32 sightings
00:51:01reported around the world.
00:51:03But think also of the number of sightings that are not reported in
00:51:06which would cover a very big amount.
00:51:17You don't have to leave the city to find an alternative lifestyle.
00:51:21Now here's a man seeking the simple clean life.
00:51:25See him at the end of a hard day of working in the office
00:51:28keeping the secretaries busy, exhausting business lunch
00:51:32and a bottle of red.
00:51:34When you live under these pressures you need something
00:51:37to relax your tired nerves.
00:51:39Slip behind the wheel of a white Mercedes,
00:51:41switch on the air conditioning, the power steering,
00:51:43the hydraulic windows, the quadraphonic cassette player
00:51:46and drive down to the businessman's club.
00:51:49This one, called the Daily Planet, is in Melbourne.
00:51:54There he is getting it all out of the system
00:51:57in the sunken Roman bath heated to just the right temperature.
00:52:01That'll get the stiffness out of some of his joints.
00:52:05A busy man like our friend here needs and deserves
00:52:08the loving care of two personal handmaidens
00:52:11to help him forget completely the worry and the strain of the office.
00:52:15Probably at the moment the work back at the office
00:52:18is the last thing on his mind.
00:52:30.
00:53:01.
00:53:15A businessman has to keep himself in shape.
00:53:18In his daily job the pace is killing.
00:53:21After all he has only one pair of hands
00:53:24so it's only right and proper that he needs
00:53:27the soothing assistance of two pairs of women's hands
00:53:30sensually smoothing the skin that contains so much commercial genius.
00:53:35It all goes down on expenses too.
00:53:38The firm can claim it's a tax deduction.
00:53:57.
00:54:22Sunup, 100 miles north of Perth.
00:54:25We all want to get away from it all.
00:54:28Some do.
00:54:30This group has.
00:54:32They've gone back to the country and set up an alternative community.
00:54:38These 80 adults and 15 children have dropped out of the rat race.
00:54:43They live on the natural vegetarian foods they grow themselves.
00:54:47Their life is simple.
00:54:49Their guide and philosopher is this 86-year-old guru
00:54:52whose gentle persuasion holds the group together.
00:54:55He is their prophet and the centre of their communal affection and love.
00:54:59.
00:55:02This all has to do with physical bodies,
00:55:05animal and human physical bodies.
00:55:08Now then, of modern times we've come to the generation gap.
00:55:13There's the constitution of the average man of the old human race.
00:55:19Even Bertrand Russell only had the concrete mental body,
00:55:24which was why he could get no positive proof of a personal God.
00:55:29Here you've got the abstract spiritual mental body.
00:55:33And with the generation gap all over the world,
00:55:37with every nation, wherever you go,
00:55:40you'll find the young people coming up now, the babies,
00:55:43have all got the abstract spiritual mental body.
00:55:47They are able to sift the true from the false,
00:55:50the good from the bad, the beautiful from the ugly, instantaneously.
00:55:55There'll be no possibility of deceiving them
00:55:58because they will have such acute perceptives.
00:56:03The young people of this generation are divided into two groups,
00:56:07the destroyers and the builders.
00:56:09We have been concentrating on the builders
00:56:12who must finalise this work that we have done
00:56:15in bringing the brotherhood and the way of life to a finality
00:56:21whereby there can be no possible argument.
00:56:24As for the future where the brotherhood is concerned,
00:56:29we have established the brotherhood of man under the fatherhood of God
00:56:33as a way of life which the children, our elder brothers,
00:56:38and the Christ for the millennium,
00:56:41that is the normal way of life,
00:56:44producing happy, healthy people
00:56:47to demonstrate to every interested person
00:56:50just exactly what the end result is
00:56:53of cooperating with our elder brothers and with the Christ.
00:56:57This is the purpose of Karanya and the Shalem
00:57:02and the Universal Brotherhood
00:57:04and the new land that we are going onto to expand this principle.
00:57:08We have now got the principle operating
00:57:11and we are going to demonstrate to the world.
00:57:14Are they crazy or are we?
00:57:29It is said that Frenchmen will follow an elegant pair of legs for miles,
00:57:34that Italians pant after blondes like a dog on heat,
00:57:38that Englishmen fancy schoolmistresses who will cane them.
00:57:42What about Australians? What turns them on?
00:57:45Do they prefer beer to birds?
00:57:48The evidence of our camera is that many Australians are sexually omnivorous.
00:57:53They are general practitioners.
00:57:56But there are also many specialists.
00:57:59There are leg men, breast men and, how shall I put it,
00:58:03well, there are men who like to see women walking away from them.
00:58:07They focus their attentive eyes on the posterior,
00:58:10bottom, backside, rump, butt, sit upon,
00:58:14mates, beauteous maximus, the bum.
00:58:18These twin spheres of rounded flesh,
00:58:21big, medium, small, dimpled, rolling, rocking,
00:58:24bumping and grinding, undulating, tight and sagging.
00:58:29Fertile garden of Eden bursting with bottoms like grapefruit,
00:58:33pawpaws or melons.
00:58:35The psychologists think they know your secret passions.
00:58:39Bum fanciers, they say, are a backward lot.
00:58:43Secret homosexuals.
00:58:45If we didn't know what a humorless lot they were,
00:58:47we might imagine they were talking tongue in cheek.
00:58:59At stag parties, footballers' booze-ups,
00:59:02rorty parties in the suburbs, club smokers,
00:59:05wherever they're determined to have a good time,
00:59:08the first thing to get after you've ordered a keg
00:59:11is a couple of porn movies.
00:59:14George Schwartz exists to fill this market.
00:59:17He's the only man in the world
00:59:19who's ever been in a pub with a woman.
00:59:22He's the only man in the world
00:59:24who's ever been in a pub with a woman.
00:59:27George Schwartz exists to fill this market.
00:59:30He makes porn movies.
00:59:32Good straight porn.
00:59:34His clients want it straight.
00:59:36He's a specialist, an expert.
00:59:38He has to know what the market wants
00:59:40to predict the latest fashions and consumer tastes,
00:59:43whether the audience is into whipping, bondage or lesbianism.
00:59:47But the basic bread-and-butter porn is straight lovemaking.
00:59:51Camera roll.
00:59:53Okay, carry slate.
00:59:55Okay, roll three, take one.
00:59:57Slate one, take two.
01:00:01Oh, this is going to be some birthday party.
01:00:06I'm just so over this birthday party.
01:00:11I just can't wait for this birthday party to begin.
01:00:15It's hard work making a porn movie.
01:00:18Hard on the actors, too.
01:00:20As soon as they start enjoying their work,
01:00:23the director shouts,
01:00:25Cut!
01:00:26Get out of here once for a moment.
01:00:29I want to show you.
01:00:31You see, the next thing is,
01:00:33when you get into, you see,
01:00:35I want that John can see.
01:00:37You see, the next thing is,
01:00:39when you get into, you see,
01:00:41I want that John can see.
01:00:43You see, I want that John can see.
01:00:45You're going to fuck to music,
01:00:47and it will be this kind of music,
01:00:49something like that.
01:00:51You see, and then I want you to get into here
01:00:54and go exactly to the music.
01:00:57You get the idea?
01:00:59Oh, yeah, yeah, I can do that.
01:01:01Right, that is the touch.
01:01:03So that's what I want from you this time.
01:01:05I haven't got any other music,
01:01:07but I will do for the time being.
01:01:09So that's what we want.
01:01:11Let's do it like that now.
01:01:13Okay.
01:01:14Right.
01:01:15Shoot.
01:01:16Action.
01:01:32That will do.
01:01:33Cut for close-up.
01:01:37For George Schwartz, it's a job of work.
01:01:39He jokes with the performers to relax them
01:01:41and get a better performance.
01:01:44There has always been erotic art.
01:01:47The form and curves of women have fascinated artists
01:01:50since the Stone Age.
01:01:52Two and a half thousand years ago,
01:01:54in the rock tombs of Etruscan kings and princes,
01:01:56they cheered the dead with erotic paintings.
01:01:59In the city of Pompeii,
01:02:00buried under the ash of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D.,
01:02:04we can still see on the excavated pavement
01:02:06an incised penis pointing the way
01:02:08to one of the many brothels of the city.
01:02:10In the sumptuous house of the Vetti brothers,
01:02:13wealthy merchants who knew how to enjoy
01:02:15the money they spent,
01:02:16one room is completely covered with erotic paintings.
01:02:19They show in loving detail all the positions,
01:02:22all the permutations and combinations
01:02:24of lovers through the ages.
01:02:38♪
01:03:09♪
01:03:18Erotic art,
01:03:19whether it is ancient paintings or modern photographs,
01:03:22satisfies a human hunger for the beauty,
01:03:25the gentleness and the savagery of caresses.
01:03:28It is a free expression of the joy of tumbled bodies.
01:03:32The ancient Greeks, the Romans, the Indians,
01:03:35all had a strong liking for erotic works of art.
01:03:38So perhaps we here in Australia
01:03:40should admit unashamedly that we enjoy it immensely too.
01:03:47♪
01:03:50When Og the caveman ripped the bearskin pants
01:03:53from the thighs of Ug the cavewoman,
01:03:55he did not know he was a fetishist.
01:03:58But we do.
01:04:00The sexual desire of the fetishist
01:04:03fastens on some special aspect of women,
01:04:06the navel, the armpits, the toes,
01:04:08or something she wears,
01:04:10her stockings, brassiere, or panties.
01:04:13The fetishist is not content with nudity.
01:04:16His passion is for what covers up the nude body.
01:04:20A hundred magazines cater for his needs.
01:04:24The models tease his imagination
01:04:26with contrast of white flesh and black stockings,
01:04:29the clinging froth of underwear
01:04:31which outline the curve of the pedenda
01:04:33thrusting against the thin fabric.
01:04:35♪
01:04:41The suspender belt,
01:04:43that thin and circling strip of material
01:04:45letting down and holding up the elastic
01:04:47straining at the black stockings.
01:04:50♪
01:05:10♪
01:05:20♪
01:05:30♪
01:05:40♪
01:05:47The fetishist likes the erogenous zones,
01:05:49the breast, crotch, thighs, and calves
01:05:52to be covered, yet half revealed.
01:05:55He wants to be titillated,
01:05:57teased with a promise of what lies underneath.
01:06:00He works with his imagination,
01:06:02his senses sharp to the labyrinth of silk
01:06:04which contains the mysterious source of pleasure.
01:06:08He is trapped by the concealed mystery of woman
01:06:10straining to reveal herself
01:06:12under the cover of a wisp of this or that.
01:06:14Half revealing, advancing and retreating,
01:06:17drawing him onward and upward.
01:06:19If she takes it all off, he loses interest.
01:06:27♪
01:06:41Women know their power to excite.
01:06:44They pamper their bodies,
01:06:46always striving to make their skins more perfect,
01:06:49whiter, smoother, or feminine.
01:06:52At spas throughout the world
01:06:54since the time of the Romans,
01:06:56the health-giving and beautifying properties
01:06:58of mud have been known.
01:07:01This girl plunges into the mud,
01:07:03sensually rubbing and squeezing it,
01:07:05abandoning herself to the clinging intimacy of the mud.
01:07:08Why does she do it?
01:07:10Is it just to make herself more beautiful,
01:07:12or is it some psychological desire
01:07:14to get back to the warm, moist, enveloping womb
01:07:16of the mother who carried her in her body for nine months?
01:07:20Are women much more primitive than men?
01:07:23Does she have some folk memory
01:07:25which draws her back to the primeval ooze
01:07:27of the warm swamp mud at the edge of the ocean,
01:07:30the life-giving mud our ultimate ancestors swam into
01:07:33when they left the salt sea
01:07:35to make their way up the evolutionary ladder
01:07:37from fishes to humans?
01:07:39Don't ask her. She doesn't know.
01:07:41But she knows it feels good.
01:07:43She knows what it means to her skin and body.
01:07:46She's enjoying herself.
01:07:48Another memory.
01:07:50The warm milk of childhood
01:07:52becomes the milk bath of adulthood.
01:07:55The wives of Roman emperors bathed in ass's milk.
01:07:59Even the government tells you to drink a pint of milk a day.
01:08:03Now you know why dairy farmers are called cow cockies.
01:08:10How do you turn your wife on
01:08:13when you both know your lovemaking too well?
01:08:16Here in Australia, like anywhere else,
01:08:19familiarity breathes boredom.
01:08:21Get rid of those dreary white cotton sheets.
01:08:24Put on crisp, sliding, sexy satin sheets.
01:08:27And get out your recipe books.
01:08:30Take three pints of thick cream.
01:08:33Whip it up, put it in an icing bag.
01:08:37Squeeze it over the cheesecake,
01:08:40following the lines of the body,
01:08:43tracking along the nerves that lead to the erogenous zones.
01:08:49Decorate with fresh strawberries.
01:08:52Frozen strawberries lead to frigidity.
01:09:07Eat slowly, lingeringly,
01:09:10watching to see how much your cooking is appreciated.
01:09:37piano plays softly
01:09:50playing in bright rhythm
01:09:58singing in Latin
01:10:07singing in Latin
01:10:10Then perhaps add honey.
01:10:13You know how many thousand lovers the queen bee has.
01:10:16Slowly pouring it over the surface of the dish,
01:10:19flicking at it with your tongue.
01:10:22Mmm, sweet.
01:10:25singing in Latin
01:10:36playing in bright rhythm
01:11:06playing in bright rhythm
01:11:12singing in Latin
01:11:15And we suggest you serve with chilled champagne.
01:11:18singing in Latin
01:11:30One thing leads to another, one appetite creates another.
01:11:33And when you've both enjoyed the meal,
01:11:36there's one great compensation.
01:11:39No dirty dishes to wash up.
01:11:42singing in Latin
01:11:51laughing
01:11:57screaming
01:12:00Do you want to be here now with me?
01:12:03Then close your mouth
01:12:06and open your heart.
01:12:12Nicholas Copernicus, the 15th century Polish priest and astronomer,
01:12:16propounded the revolutionary theory
01:12:19that the sun was the center of the universe
01:12:22and the earth moved around the sun.
01:12:25People thought he was mad.
01:12:28But Australia has its own Copernicus.
01:12:31Count Copernicus is the most beautifully confused
01:12:34entertainer in Australia today.
01:12:37But out of this confusion there seems to grow
01:12:40a colorful madness that almost borders on sanity.
01:12:43A few years back he would not have been allowed
01:12:46to roam free in our society.
01:12:49singing in Latin
01:12:58cover to cover
01:13:01I am a shining mirror
01:13:06Gaze at your soul
01:13:09and discover
01:13:12who you really are
01:13:18Beautiful schoolgirls remind me of sexy nuns.
01:13:28singing in Latin
01:13:42Now listen here. I'm a big man.
01:13:45You understand? I'm a big man.
01:13:51drumming
01:13:58drumming
01:14:08Mankind is going through a strange transition at the moment
01:14:12known esoterically as Kali Yuga.
01:14:15So we've got to be a little cool.
01:14:20This is about the second coming
01:14:23but it has absolutely nothing to do with orgasm.
01:14:29Or does it?
01:14:36I am a delicately wrapped, full cream, delicious,
01:14:39caramel-scented, chocolate-coated, protein-enriched
01:14:42new messiah.
01:14:50I really love
01:14:53mouth open.
01:14:58music
01:15:01music
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01:15:13I wish I was a ginger cat
01:15:16with a name like Marmalade.
01:15:19No little bird
01:15:22no mouse or rat
01:15:25would need to be afraid.
01:15:34The Count abhors violence.
01:15:37He feels there are better things to be done in this world
01:15:40than killing or fighting.
01:15:43If we must fight, it must be a non-violent fight
01:15:46for good and love and understanding.
01:15:49Instead of gaining gratification from violence
01:15:52we should get our satisfaction from love.
01:15:55Now isn't that food for thought?
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01:16:40Instead of thinking violent thoughts, perhaps we should all
01:16:43concentrate our studies on the Kamasutra.
01:16:47Anybody who thinks that
01:16:50sex is obscene should read the Kamasutra.
01:16:53If they still think it's obscene
01:16:56they should get into television advertising.
01:16:59If we can
01:17:02live through our animal fantasies, we can transcend them.
01:17:05And in the end it's
01:17:08just you and the one you love.
01:17:11We must put our shoulder to the wheel
01:17:14best foot forward
01:17:17chest out
01:17:20stiff upper lip
01:17:23nerves to the grindstone
01:17:26and together we shall march on
01:17:29into the unknown.
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01:19:02Gina Allen lives on the Barrier Reef.
01:19:14She's deeply concerned about conservation.
01:19:16She loves the fishes and the whole multicolored moving world of underwater.
01:19:21Like a sea nymph, she gives herself to the water.
01:19:24No need to wear anything but the essentials, the mask, flippers, breathing apparatus which
01:19:29allow her to be a citizen of the sea.
01:19:32She plays with the fish, lets the current take her, the reef is her home.
01:19:38Gina Allen is another Australian going back through millions of years, back to the time
01:19:43when all of life was marine life, to the great creating sea we all come from, where the water
01:19:51supported the moving body and all of life was gliding through the great sea, the mother
01:19:56sea which gave us all life.
01:20:26We have taken you on a journey through the strange byways of Australia after dark, but
01:20:51after the dark comes the dawn of a new and lovely day, and Gina Allen is a beautiful
01:20:57way to watch the new day.
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