Bobtales

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show_name = Bobtales


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director = Todd Williams
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presenter = Stephen (Baamba) Albert
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narrated = Stephen (Baamba) Albert
Jodi Hoffmann
Carol Petterson
Lynette Narkle
Vanessa Elliot
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composer = David Milroy
country = Australia
language = English
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producer = Patricia Evans
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co-producer = Graeme Edwin (WAAMA)
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first_run = SBS television
first_aired = 1997
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website = http://members.iinet.net.au/~althomp/bob/
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"Bobtales" is an Australian animated series of aboriginal dreamtime stories produced in Perth, Western Australia in 1997.

Thirteen 5-minute episodes were produced by independent film company Gripping Film and Graphics and the Western Australian Aboriginal Media Association in Western Australia, with funding from Screenwest, Film Australia, and SBS Independent. The series is distributed within Australia and world wide by Screen Australia.

Episodes

#Waitj and the Djindong
#The Trials of Yorna
#Younger and Maak
#Legend of the Southern Cross
#How the Parrots got their Colours
#Three Springs
#How the Echidna Got its Quills
#The Emu, Brolga and Eagle
#The Kingfisher Tribe
#The Dove and the Mountain Devil
#Moon Stories
#Legend of the Kwilena
#Why the Numbat Has Stripes / Why the Chuditch Has Spots and the Emu Can't Fly

References

* http://www.racismnoway.com.au/library/bibliography/bib57.html
* http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/694541
* http://www.iinet.net.au/~althomp/bob/