I, The Aboriginal (1960)

57m
Running Time

December 31, 1960
Release Date

I, The Aboriginal

I, The Aboriginal (1960)

57m
Running Time

December 31, 1960
Release Date

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Set in and around Darwin the film discloses the life of a full-blood Aborigine as depicted in Douglas Lockwood's book of the same name. Philip Roberts recalls his early years of tribal life and gradual acceptance by the white community. He receives medical training, and travels frequently to his own people making use of his knowledge.

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Release Date
December 31, 1960

Status
Released

Running Time
57m

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I, the Aboriginal is an Australian book and television film about the life of Aboriginal Australian Phillip Roberts (or Waipuldanya).

The 1962 book, written in first person, is described as the autobiography of Waipuldanya, a full-blood Aboriginal man of the Alawa tribe at Roper River (Ngukurr) in the Northern Territory, as told to Douglas Lockwood. The book concerns Waipuldanya's traditional upbringing and his training to become a skilled medical assistant for the Department of Health at Darwin Hospital. Lockwood wrote the book from more than 100 hours of interview with Roberts. I, the Aboriginal won the major literary award at the Adelaide Festival of the Arts in 1962.

An ABC television film, in which Roberts played himself, was based on the book. Directed by Cecil Holmes, the film won the Australian Film Institute's Gold Award in 1964. Holmes' wife and indigenous advocate Sandra Le Brun Holmes contributed an account of the experience of their making I, the Aboriginal to Walkabout.

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