This 1960s travel documentary produced by Lund & Lund and narrated by Hugh McIntosh follows a tourist bus that takes its passengers to some of the sights in the Australian Outback. This includes Alice Springs, Simpson Gap National Park, looking at various animals, the Kata Tjuta mountain range, and Uluru. The footage is in extraordinarily high quality for the time.

0:09 “Holidays Down Under” Produced by Lund & Lund, narrated by Hugh McIntosh, 0:33 a map showing Australia and the South Pacific and “Chapter Two”, 0:55 interior of an aircraft followed by views of the Australian Outback, 1:24 stills of Indigenous Australians, 2:14 sunrise in Alice Springs, 2:31 overview of Alice Springs, 3:03 Cessnas of the Royal Flying Doctors, 3:30 Peacocks, Kangaroos, and Emus in a zoo, 4:17 tourists riding camels on a ranch, 4:55 Simpson Gap National Park, 5:37 close up shots of Wallabies, 6:29 footage of the Outback, 6:50 kangaroos in the Outback, 7:26 bus passengers stretching their legs, 7:57 the sun setting on the Ross River Ranch, 8:12 bus driver preparing Damper Bread for the passengers, 8:58 tourists riding horses, 9:23 tourists throwing boomerangs, 10:27 a large Gumtree, 10:52 tourists standing near large rock formations, 11:22 tourists flying to the Kata Tjuta (Mount Olga) mountain range, 11:55 aerial footage of the Nasa McDonald Geodetic Observatory, 12:34 Kata Tjuta range coming into view, 13:10 aerial footage of Uluru, 13:43 Uluru as seen from the ground, 14:10 sunrise over the Outback and Uluru, 14:45 close up shots of different caves and patterns on Uluru, 16:33 “the digging stick” on Uluru, 17:20 close up of the surface of Uluru, 17:36 Indigenous art on Uluru, 18:18 tourists climbing Uluru, 19:21 Maggie Springs near Uluru, 20:05 map of Australia and the South Pacific

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