form y separately published work icon Legend of the Southern Cross single work   film/TV   children's  
Alternative title: The Story of the Southern Cross
Note: Contributed by Carol Petterson for the Yarramoup Aboriginal Corporation and Cleve Hassel for C.W. & W.A. Hassel from the book "My Dusky Friends" by E. Hassel
Issue Details: First known date: 1997... 1997 Legend of the Southern Cross
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'A group of girls sent on a special errand disobey instructions and are blown up into the sky to join the stars. One version of a traditional Aboriginal story about how the Southern Cross came into being and why it is different from other stars.' (Source: National Film & Sound Archive)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

      1997 .
      Extent: 5 minsp.
      Series: form y separately published work icon Bobtales Western Australia : Gripping Films & Graphics Western Australia Aboriginal Media Association , 1997 6183152 1997 series - publisher film/TV dreaming story

      'Bobtales is an animated series of thirteen five minute Aboriginal Dreamtime stories for young children. These enchanting five-minute tales bring to life stories of how some of Australia's native animals came to look the way they do, and why the moon and the stars appear in the sky. Presented by Aboriginal storytellers, these beautifully illustrated stories use dynamic computer animation based on drawings by Aboriginal children from Western Australia to tell traditional legends in an imaginative and colourful way.' (Source: Bobtales Animated Aboriginal Dreamtime Stories for Children website; and National Film & Sound Archive website)
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