The Long Long Walkabout
The Australian Aborigines are different from the rest of humanity: their origin and past has long been one of the great mysteries. Now, the far ranging detective work of Australian scientists, led by PROFESSOR N. W. G. MACINTOSH , has revealed a story stretching back 50,000 years ago to southern China.
Step by step, the film follows Macintosh's investigation: to a sacred mountain whose hollow interior is the tomb of a whole tribe; to tropical jungles where a last few Aborigines still live in ancient style; to desert dunes in Australia's outback where lie the remains of what was once the most sophisticated society in the world; and to caves in the Philippines where bat excrement has preserved vital clues to the origin of all mankind.
Narrator IAN HOLM
Editor PETER GOODCHII. D Producer TOM HAYDON
BBC TV in association with Australian Broadcasting Commission