Rainbow Archives - Contemporary and archival film footage used for the documentary series `Nearly normal Nimbin' / produced, directed and filmed by Jeni Kendell and Paul Tait, Gaia Films, 1995

MP 96
MP 176-MP 216

series

1973-1995

Graphic Materials, Textual Records, Moving Images

124781

Moving Images - video recordings - 22 videocassettes (VHS)
Textual Records - typescript, 5 logs in separate folders
Textual Records - printed, 2 books
Moving Images - motion pictures - 98 films (49 workprint and 49 sound) - 16 mm.
Moving Images - motion pictures - 16 films - 16 mm.

Box 1. Video log (user's/processor's guide linking footage, videos); Script (transcription of the edited film series); 3 editing notebooks compiled by Harriet Clutterbuck titled: sync log, mute log, and archival log and credits list (credits list is general for whole series)

Box 2. Interview 1: Johnny Allen; Col James; Sara Mitchell; Michael Balderstone; Dr. Kingsley Pearson

Box 3. Interview 2: Ronnie Potter; Jodi; Maria Walsh; Peter Pix; 3 woman artists; Burri Jerome; Spinx Rock community

Box 4. Interview 3. Lisa Yeates; Mira & Tanzen; John Seed

Box 5. Interview 4. Paul Joseph; Harry Freeman & Jennie Dell; Mandie Hale & Angela Gittus; Kali McLaughlin

Box 6. Interviews 5-6. Bodhi Farm Boys; Hugh & Nan Nicholson; Bob Hopkins; Christopher Dean; Jude & Michelle Fanton; Ian Cohen; Carol Perry; Freja Leonard; "Rainbow" Lyn; David Hallett; Archie & Michael Howard; David Heilpern. Willow Neilson; Graeme Dunstan; Peter Pedals; Neil Pike Nisi Paitson; Laurence Mills; Sasscia

Box 7. Performance 1. Sara Mitchell "Little Sister"; Black Allan Barker Trittoria "Rio"; Phil Levy, Bahloo in Jems; David Hallett, David Heilpern Waa Hoos, Liz Hall, S. Sorrensen, Shanto & Lina "Ladieson Domestica Appassionata"; Lucy "Wildflower" "Teach your children" Ian Gardiner W/S; Fashion Pde; "Visions"

Box 8. Performance 2. Nimbin Designers; "Days of future past"; Willow Neilson Jazz Sax; Dance; "Way of the woman" Johnathon Atherton; Ewan James; Nimbin "All Stars" Maleny Folk Festival; Atmos Maleny Folk Festival

Box 9. Artists & Community. Donato Rozella; Paul Paitson; Bren Claridge; Chris Hart; Francis Janssen; Gillian Jones; Benny Zable; Polly Stirling & Sushi Stephens; Kids Robb Rd, Melina Stirling, Robb Rd. Meet; Peltin; "Billen" Tuntable AGM Channon Market; Fig Birds; Bodhi See Group; Mira/Komala

Box 10. Spiritual. "Aquarius" 20 yrs on; Tibetan Lamas, Mira's workshop Auryvedic Doctors; Haris; Wesak; Sai Baba; Zen Retreat

Box 11. Town One. "Rainbow Cafe" police; Sen Con Will Palmer; "Reclaim the Streets" Mal Rothwell, Black Allan, Mardigrass 93 Mardigrass 94 April Fools; "Miss Beef" Nimbin Street Murals; "Industrial Man" Childrens March; Int Rainbow Cafe "We are one" song; "Some Children of the Dream" Exhibition

Box 12. Town Two. "Skeleton" burning, Aboriginal Day, Burri Jerome's Pelecan story, Indigenous Peoples Day March. Heroin Addicts, Int. Jimmy Willing; Bust, African Dance Soup Friday, Freja Leonard Hemp Rave, Nimbin Museum Protest Alsop Park, Town Hall meeting drugs, Marijuana plants, rolling joint, helicopters, burning plants

Box 13. Town Three. Nimbin Mardigrass, huge joint, film crew, feral music, Bob Hopkins box of joints, "Plantum" Graeme Dunstan; stilts; Black Allan sings; Son Didge; nude man; hitchikkers, Kombi down Main St.

Box 14-15. Mute. Rolls 1-13 various (on mute VHS 1-3)

Box 16. Archival. [Includes Birth & beyond [motion picture & videorecording] / produced by Jeni Kendell, 1979. A documentary on the Birth and Beyond Centre (natural childbirth) at Nimbin -- Wake up one day different [videorecording] : Ram Dass interviews John Seed, 1992 -- Give trees a chance [videorecording] : the story of Terania Creek / Gaia Films, [198-]. -- Earth first [videorecording] : the struggle to save Australia's rainforest / Gaia Films, c1987 [Additional copy at Location number: VB1906 General Reference Library] -- Writers of the storm [book] / east coast performance poets David Hallett ... et al. [Lismore, N.S.W.] : Tyagarah Consultants, 1993 [copy signed by David Hallet] [Additional copy at Location number: 821.3080994/3 Mitchell Library] -- Earth first [book] : the struggle to save Australia's rainforest / Jeni Kendell and Eddie Buivids. Sydney : ABC, 1987. [copy signed by Jeni Kendell][Additional copy at Location number: REF1/Q333.7516099/7 Reference shelves in Mitchell Library]

Box 17. Archival. [Includes material originally broadcast on ABC-TV news and current affairs programs documenting the `1973 Aquarius Festival' and footage relating to Nimbin's counter-culture filmed during the 1970s and early 1980s.]

For the edited film series see `Nearly normal Nimbin' directed by Jenni Kendall and Paul Tait. Nimbin, N.S.W., c. 1995.

The contemporary film workprint, sound rushes and archival film footage (contained in Boxes 1-17) were copied to VHS video (comprising 18 videocassettes) in June 1996.
Contents listed from labels supplied by Gaia Films; labels filed with relavent boxes.