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Around a Gum Tree (1949)

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clip Adapting to the climate

This clip chosen to be PG

Clip description

A group of friends relax and keep cool under the shade of a gum tree in their garden. Two of them flip through an old photo album that contains photographs of the Australian snowfields and the snow gum – a contrast to the pine trees on snowfields of Europe. In another part of the country, wheat farmers harvest on the Mallee plains.