| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (55 min. 6 sec.) ; 332589861 bytes |
| Summary |
The Great Australian Fly looks at how a national nuisance has shaped Australia and its people, confounding our scientists, influencing our lifestyle, and defining the way we speak. But is its value misunderstood?Directed by Tosca Looby and produced by Sally Ingleton, the documentary explores how this much-maligned spoiler of the Australian summer is in fact a crime solver, healer, pollinator and street sweeper.Part social history, part scientific study, The Great Australian Fly introduces the people who devote their lives to flies through science, criminology, medicine, as breeders and for love. You'll meet Australia's only professional maggot farmer, Dave Sheldon; Queensland Museum's curator of entomology and avid bug catcher, Dr Christine Lambkin; clinical nurse Catherine Brennan and her medical maggots; and director of the University of WA's Centre for Forensic Science, Professor Ian Dadour. It also looks at the enduring Aussie advertising icon 'Louie the Fly', created in 1957 by ad men Bryce Courtenay and Geoff Pike.Plus the documentary explains why we might need to stop swatting and start embracing the fly, because, like it or not, this pesky little insect looms large in our past, our present and our future.PRODUCTION DETAILS:55 minutes. Producer: Sally Ingleton. Writer and Director: Tosca Looby. Narrator: John Doyle. 360 Degree Films |
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Closed captioning in English |
| Event |
Broadcast 2015-04-07 at 20:30:00 |
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Classification: PG |
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Flies -- Behavior.
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Green-bottle flies.
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Insects -- Collection and preservation.
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Insects -- Research.
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Maggots.
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Discovery and exploration, Australian.
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Australia.
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Streaming video
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Looby, Tosca, director
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Doyle, John, cast
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