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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)

play May contain names, images or voices of deceased Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
clip 'I had a right to think it was my kid'

Original classification rating: M. This clip chosen to be PG

Clip description

Jimmie (Tommy Lewis) waits excitedly outside the Newby homestead, for his first child to be born. He hears the baby cry but it is several hours before Mr Newby (Don Crosby) emerges to tell him he has a son. Mrs Newby (Ruth Cracknell) and Miss Gray (Elizabeth Alexander) gloat when they show him the boy, who is obviously not his son.