From the archives of Nomad Films International, founded 1976:
THEY USED TO CALL IT SANDY BLIGHT — 45 minutes
When it was first shown on ABC TV in 1977, this 45-minute documentary film They Used to Call it Sandy Blight portrayed a strong message about the poor living conditions and poor health status of Aboriginal peoples in remote and arid parts of Australia.
The film highlighted the work of the National Trachoma & Eye Health Program, Australia's first nation-wide eye health program established in May 1976 to screen and treat trachoma and other eye diseases.
Led by Professor Fred Hollows the NTEHP team over a period of two years visited more than 465 Aboriginal remote settlements, rural towns and cattle stations in Aboriginal communities in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory. They tested more than 62,000 Aboriginal persons for eye conditions. About one half of the patients in the NTEHP survey were treated for trachoma, and one thousand eye operations were performed across Central and Northern Australia.
They Used to call it Sandy Blight showed the world the extent our indigenous people were suffering from preventable diseases gave our Aboriginal Australians an insight into what was happening in other Indigenous communities across Australia.
TOMORROW'S CHILD — 47 minutes
Produced in 1982, "Tomorrow's Child" is a powerfully compelling television documentary revealing for the first time on film, with step-by-step precision and sympathetic understanding, the fascinating story behind the amazing advances in 'test-tube baby' or more accurately, In Vitro Fertilization techniques with human embryo transfers.
The Monash University Medical Team, led by Professor Carl Wood, made medical history, by thawing and bringing to life, human embryos which were kept time-locked, frozen in a state of suspended animation for several months!
The photos on the left are from Tomorrow's Child.
BREAKTHROUGHS — A 26 part half-hour series
Breakthroughs explores and demystifies in compelling human terms some of the amazing advances in science, medicine and technology in the 1980s - which are rapidly changing the shape of our world and the way in which we work, love and live.
These absorbing programs involve the viewer in a fantastic journey: from the deepest recesses of the human brain and the high technology that is helping the physically and medically handicapped to machines that actually "see" the body's living chemistry at work and non-surgical advances to cure male impotence.
Three photos below from Breakthroughs:
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