Rabbit-Proof Fence Film Running Sheet

Appendix 1 Rabbit-Proof Fence – Film Running Sheet Time Action Screenplay Book Scene 0.00 – Sound, Titles, Context information printed on screen: 0.05.17 Western Australia 1931… Scenes Voiceover of adult Molly speaking background information 2 - 6 about her story – subtitles Various shots of young Molly in her landscape Molly’s mother explains about the spirit bird All dialogue in the sequence is in dialect. 0.05.17 – Perth, Neville’s office – Neville making notes about Molly, Scenes 0.06.35 Daisy and Gracie. 7 – 8 His secretary enters and lists requests from Aborigines for permissions – to marry, visit relatives, buy shoes 0.06.35 – Jigalong Depot – ration time Scene Page 0.08.35 The girls talk to the fence builder about the rabbit-proof 11 78 fence 0.08.35 – Riggs (policeman) arrives and takes the girls 13-19 42-45 0.11.20 0.11.20 – Neville explains government policy on Aborigines to a group Scene 1 Ch: 0.13.14 of white women 1-4 0.13.14 – The girls’ journey to Moore River – cuts between stages of Scenes Page 0.16.20 the journey and the women back at Jigalong mourning the 20-22 60 loss of the girls. The girls arrive at Moore River and are 24-26 63-64 given a bed in the dormitory 0.16.20 – The next morning – breakfast, washing, clothes issue, girls Scenes Page 0.19.40 told they must speak English 27-33 66 0.19.40 – Moore River scene – Neville checks the children for ones Scene 0.22.45 with paler skin 39 0.22.45 – The girls sweeping in the babies’ dormitory. Moodoo, the Scenes 0.25.10 Aboriginal tracker brings back a girl who had escaped – she 34-37 is put into a shed alone, her hair is clipped short 0.25.10 – Discussion of mothers. Molly and Daisy look at the girl in the Scene Page 0.27.35 shed through holes in the wall (cut to a shot of the spirit 38 70-71 bird) 0.27.45 – Molly has had a restless night. Next morning the girls run 44,46 0.30.35 away – the rain will wash away their tracks 50-52 0.30.35 – Afternoon roll call – the girls ‘ absence is discovered 53 0.31.25 0.31.25 – Moodoo is called to track the girls 54-60 0.33.20 Cut to girls running through the bush Cut to Moodoo receiving instructions from Neville Cut to girls running through bush 0.33.20 – Neville – explaining the girls escaped two days ago 63 0.33.55 0.33.55 – The girls covering their tracks by walking in the river – 67-73 0.39.25 Moodoo searching for them – he realises they are clever 0.39.25 – Neville arguing with the police commissioner about who will 81 0.40.12 pay for tracking the girls 0.40.12 – Jigalong depot –depot manager tells Molly’s mother the girls 96 0.40.40 have run away from Moore River

0.40.40 – A farmer’s wife gives the girls food and coats after catching 83-87 Pages 0.43.14 Molly in the chookhouse stealing eggs. She tells them 97- where the rabbit-proof fence is 100

0.43.14 – The girls walking – MUSIC 91 0.43.50 Time Action Screenplay Book Scene 0.43.50 – Moore River girls’ dormitory – the older girl reads about the 92 Page 0.44.42 girls from the newspaper – they have been gone for one 102 month 0.44.42 – Girls walking – they find the fence 99 Page 0.48.35 Cut to Molly’s mother and grandmother holding the fence – 100 109- the grandmother is chanting 110 0.48.35 – White man’s camp – he tells them about there being three 107, 0.49.58 fences and explains how to get to the correct one by cutting 109 cross country 0.49.58 – Moodoo and the white policeman meet at the fence junction 111 0.50.25 – the girls have eluded them 0.50.25 – The girls meet Mavis as she hangs out the washing. Mavis 112 0.56.10 was once at Moore River and is now a domestic servant for 113 a farming family. She gets them food and they hide in her 115 room – they run away when the farmer discovers them (when he goes to Mavis’s room at night to rape her). He calls the police 0.56.10 – The girls running away at night – Molly covers their tracks. 115 0.58.30 Moodoo is impressed with their cleverness 0.58.30 – Neville explains to the police commissioner how they Scene 1.00.33 missed the girls at the fence junction. He organises for 123 Moodoo and white policeman to go further north on the 131 fence and wait for the girls 136 Cut to aerial shot of the vast landscape the girls have to walk through Cut to Moodoo and policeman’s camp 1.00.33 – The girls are eating with an Aboriginal man (Dan) – he Scene Page 1.03.20 works on the fence. He tells Gracie that her mother is at 125 115- Wiluna – she can catch a train to there from Meeka 130 116 Molly says no and walks on with Daisy Gracie hesitates then walks in a different direction 1.03.20 – Molly decides to go back for Gracie – note camera shots 132 0.04.20 here – how do they develop Molly’s character? 1.04.20 – Meeka railway station – Molly and Daisy watch as Gracie is 134 1.07.15 captured by police 1.07.15 – Molly and Daisy walking Scenes 1.11.03 Cut to Moodoo – he looks up as if he feels them coming 138 White policeman decides they should give up waiting for the 142 girls – they have already been camped there for weeks 145 Cut to Molly and Daisy walking in the desert Cut to Neville Cut to Molly and Daisy – they look towards even tougher desert – flat salt plains that go on forever. Various short of Molly and daisy walking through this country – MUSIC 1.11.03 – Molly’s mother and grandmother holding the fence, waiting 145 1.11.30 1.11.30 – Molly and Daisy lying in the desert where they have fallen 147 1.13.45 down –as if dead Cut to mother and grandmother waiting Cut to Molly and Daisy lying in the desert – the spirit bird wakes Molly – she looks up slowly and says ‘Home’ Molly picks up Daisy and starts walking – MUSIC 150 The 1.13.45 – Riggs driving on road to Jigalong 152 last 1.14.50 Cut to Neville’s office – instructions about what to do with 153, part the girls when they are recaptured 140 of the Cut to Riggs at Jigalong depot 154 book Time Action Screenplay Book Scene 1.14.50 – Night - Riggs walks into the bush to see what the chanting is 158 Pages 1.17.50 about. 160 118 – Cut to Molly and Daisy walking through bush 155 123 Cut back to Riggs. He encounters Molly’s mother and 160 grandmother – mother raises her spear calmly, Riggs backs 164 off. 1.17.50 – The spirit bird, MUSIC, Molly 1.20.55 Slow motion – Molly and Daisy, Molly’s mother and 165 grandmother running to meet each other 166 Molly says, ‘I lost one.’ Molly and Daisy with family at their camp Cut to Neville – dictating a letter saying he does not have 170 the resources to continue to hunt the girls 1.20.55 – Voiceover – adult Molly tells the rest of her life story 169 1.23.00 Cut to the real Molly and Daisy, now old women 171 Cut to black with written information about the Stolen 170 Generation END Credits