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Apple QuickTime movie  |  1993-09-05  |  3.5 MB  |  240x180  |  1200000fps  |  43 seconds  |  [MooV/TVOD]
Transcription: The Dreamtime, a world that is thousands of years old and still present today. It's the ancestral world of the Australian aborigine. When Europeans arrived in Australia, they found a complex society of hunter-gatherers spread across the continent, united in a belief system contained in song. The dreaming rituals, rock paintings and engravings told of a time when spirits created Australia. The songs told the aborigines who to marry, what to hunt, where to find water, a combination of laws and history, a social system handed down from the dawn of time.