Talk:Picnic at Hanging Rock (film)

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Contents 1 An all-white vision? 2 A source for further details about this film 3 Fair use rationale for Image:Picnic at hanging rock.jpg 4 Fair use rationale for Image:Picnichangingrock3.jpg

[edit] An all-white vision?

As far as I recall, there are no Native Australians in the entire film, although their relics seem to be part of the mystic background. Is this correct? And would this be realistic for the place and time?

--GwydionM 17:15, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

You would not expect to have found Aboriginals in the type of country being portrayed then or now. To an extent this was the result of disposession (surviving Aboriginals were concentrated in missions and reserves), but population densities were probably never high in the countryside portrayed.--Grahamec 02:22, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

there's a native australian tracker among the search party, wearing a bright red coat--Mongreilf (talk) 15:56, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A source for further details about this film

This interview:

• Transcript of an April 2006 interview on Talking Heads

with producer Patricia Lovell talks about the film. For example:

“

Yeah, and I was suggesting to the viewers that this would make a marvellous film. And then I started to think about it and then, because of Peter, I thought, "This is very Weir." So, I did actually say to him, you know, I took it around and said, "Pete, would you please read this?" And he was so busy working on Cars That Ate Paris I think he left it for about three to four months. And then suddenly he rang me, screaming on the phone, "I've got to do this. What do we do? What do we do next?" I said, "Right, I will fly us economy to Melbourne and we will stay with friends overnight and we're going to try and meet Joan Lindsay and we will also go to the rock." So, we did this el cheapo thing, I'm very ashamed of it now. It wasn't what big Hollywood producers would do.

”

I used that interview to flesh out Lovell's bio a bit and thought it could be useful here too — 67.101.6.238 03:13, 2 May 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Picnic at hanging rock.jpg

Image:Picnic at hanging rock.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 21:44, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Picnichangingrock3.jpg

Image:Picnichangingrock3.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If there is other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images uploaded after 4 May, 2006, and lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.

BetacommandBot (talk) 21:45, 26 November 2007 (UTC)