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Three young people stand talking outside a shops display window

A black and white image of three young people - two women and a man - standing outside a shop's display window. The two women are talking to each other. Both have long straight hair and are dressed in the miniskirts of the 1960s era. The man has long sideburns and is dressed in a dark coloured suit and tie. He is looking away from the women. One woman carries a houndstooth patterned bag and a bunch of white flowers. This image was shot while filming Three to Go: Michael 1969: Until now, Michael's life has followed a relatively straight and narrow path. A chance encounter with an actor involved in a film about guerrilla warfare leads him to question his safe job and conservative lifestyle. In this experimental drama, Michael is taken on an excursion into the world of the young radical, but is it where he belongs? Acclaimed director Peter Weir interweaves Michael's story with footage showing dramatised armed resistance in a Sydney under siege and segments from Youth Quake, a panel discussion about the youth revolution

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Black and white image of a vintage taxi driving along the road

A black and white image of a taxi driver, Jim McKenzie, driving on a road. This image was shot while filming Taxi 1972: A day in the life of an owner-driver of a taxi in Perth. Jim McKenzie is a taxi driver from Perth in Western Australia. He owns his own cab and has been in business about four years. Jim likes his work, but it is an odd sort of job: the hours are long but you meet all sorts of people. But a man is his own boss: for blokes like him, that's important

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Balancing on a Bicycle. Human Face of China, The. 1979

A colour image of three female acrobats practicing a balancing act on a bicycle. One woman balances on a wheel of the bicycle, whilst another woman balances using one hand on her head. The third woman is balancing by hand on the frame of the bike. The women are being watched by three people on the ground. Based in Xi'an, on the old silk road to the west, the Shanxi Provincial Acrobatic Troupe are skilled in their art and loved by the people who see them perform. The troupe's tradition goes back 2000 years. It spends as much as eight months a year on tour

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