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Nott, D: A Trip With the RAAF (c.1970)

play Please note: this clip is silent
clip New Guinea and the RAAF

Original classification rating: not rated. This clip chosen to be G

Clip description

This clip begins with crowds of schoolchildren gathered around an RAAF aeroplane at a New Guinea base. Some of the boys look beneath the cockpit area. A brief shot of a map of New Guinea is shown. Two members of the air force travel on a boat then disembark at a pier, as members of the local community look on.

Curator’s notes

This clip was filmed during an RAAF trip to Lae, New Guinea, and Manus Island in May 1969.