Oondamooroo: a profile of Ernie Dingo (A)

The Aboriginal actor Ernie Dingo talks about his career, his origins, influences on his life and his feelings about his aboriginality. Features excerpts from his work on stage and screen, interviews with friends, mentors, family and wife and shows him at work teaching Aboriginal children to develop self-respect and white children to understand Aboriginal culture and history. An engaging look at an impressive and likeable personality.

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Credits

production company

Australia. Special Broadcasting Service

Don Featherstone Productions

producer/director

Don Featherstone

Duration

00:52:00:00

Production places

Australia

Production dates

1992

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

325392

Language

English

Subject categories

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Biographical films

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Motion picture actors and actresses - Biography

Biographical

Documentary

Documentary → Documentary films - Australia

Music & Performing Arts → Actors - Australia - Interviews

Music & Performing Arts → Motion picture actors and actresses - Biography

People → Biographical films

People → Dingo, Ernie

People → Motion picture actors and actresses - Biography

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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Australia, 1992

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