A personal account created by a participant in the ACMI Digital Storytelling Workshop “Against the Grain” in association with Partners in Grain (PING).
Althea Hunt describes her life as a farmer’s wife from leaving her beloved family in Queensland to joining her husband and running their independent cereal farm in the Millewa district of Victoria. She talks of the enormous changes - the hard work and dealing with the often unrelenting climate of drought and cyclones whilst also raising three young children and maintaining the family unit. For Althea however, it has been exciting and rewarding to see how far their farm has come over the 30 year journey since she left Queensland.
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Collection
In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
B1006798
Language
English
Audience classification
Exempt
Subject categories
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Victoria - Rural conditions
Documentary → Documentary films - Australia
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Communities
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Rural conditions
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Women
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Colour
Holdings
MPEG-2 Digital File; Memory Grid Pod Full Encode
DVCAM; Master
Mini DV; Sub-master
VHS [PAL]; Reference - timecoded
MOV file ProRes4444; Digital Preservation Master - overscan
MPEG-4 Digital File; ACMI Digital Access Copy - overscan
MPEG-4 Digital File; ACMI External Digital Access Copy