40,000 Years of Dreaming 26 years old

The British Film Institute Presents The Century of Cinema: Australia and New Zealand

Australian born film maker George (Mad Max) Miller offers a personal view of Australian films. He suggests that they can be regarded as visual music, public dreaming, mythology, and song-lines. In extrapolating the idea of movies as song-lines he examines feature films under the following categories : songs of the land ; the bushman ; the convicts ; the bush-rangers ; mates and larrikins ; the digger ; pommy bashing ; the sheilas ; gays ; the wogs ; blackfellas ; urban subversion. He then concludes that these films can be thought of as "Hymns that sing of Australia

Credits

40,000 Years of Dreaming Cast

Name Character
George Miller He was 52, now 79 years old as Himself

40,000 Years of Dreaming Crew

Name Department
Doug Mitchell as Producer. He was 55 (now 81) years old Production
Margaret Sixel as Editor. She was 2 (now 24) years old Editing
Dion Beebe as Director of Photography. He was 29 (now 56) years old Camera
George Miller as Director. He was 52 (now 79) years old Directing
George Miller as Producer. He was 52 (now 79) years old Production
George Miller as Writer. He was 52 (now 79) years old Writing
40,000 Years of Dreaming (26 years)

The British Film Institute Presents The Century of Cinema: Australia and New Zealand

  • Release day: Monday, November 10, 1997
  • Runtime: 67 minutes