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Title David Gulpilil: Walkabout to Hollywood
Published Umbrella Entertainment, 1980
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (49 minutes): .flv file, sound
Summary Produced and directed this documentary for BBC in the 1980's, about David Gulpilil, acclaimed Australian Aboriginal actor, dancer and musician. The film shows how Gulpilil is always working to bridge the gap between the tribal Aboriginal and Western worlds. He divides his time between a traditional tribal lifestyle and his artistic work, which has included major film roles, collaboration with contemporary dance and music groups and teaching Aboriginal dance and culture. Bill and David travel to Hollywood where David was the most popular Australian in the world at that time, with FOUR films playing in America - WALKABOUT, STORM BOY, THE LAST WAVE and MAD DOG MORGAN. After relating to both the black and native American cultures and filming a quick scene for a big Hollywood picture, he pines to head back through the Outback to his beloved Arnhem Land. Edited by Simon Dibbs and shot by Ray Henman
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Credits Directed by Bill Leimbach
Performer Buffy Sainte-Marie, David Gulpilil, Peter Weir, Robert Powell
Event Originally produced by Umbrella Entertainment in 1980
Notes In English
Subject Aboriginal Australians.
Biography.
Australians.
Motion pictures.
Indigenous peoples.
History.
Documentary films.
Arts.
Foreign study.
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
History
history (discipline)
Aboriginal Australians.
Arts.
Australians.
Biography.
Documentary films.
Foreign study.
History.
Indigenous peoples.
Motion pictures.
Genre/Form Documentary films.
Documentary films.
Documentaires.
Form Streaming video
Author Leimbach, Bill, film director
Sainte-Marie, Buffy, actor
Gulpilil, David, actor
Weir, Peter, actor
Powell, Robert, actor
Umbrella Entertainment (Firm)
Kanopy (Firm)