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Rainbow Serpent

April 25, 2000 (estimated) TV Episode The Dreaming

Studio
Aboriginal Nations Pty Ltd.
Distributor
Laughing Zebras

Synopsis

A Dreaming story about the journey of the Rainbow Serpent who traveled through Cape York forming the colors of the Great Barrier Reef and many of the Islands off the coast of North Queensland.

Credits

Voices

Voice
Uncle Ray Whymarra (Narrator)

Music

Music
Ben Chase

Crew

Sound Design
Ben Chase

Production notes

This story comes from Uncle Ray Whymarra of the Gudang language group on the East Coast of the tip of Cape York in North Queensland.

This TV series consists of 91 episodes.

Over 1,000 schools across Australia purchased educational kits based on the first 39 episodes.

A children's animation series, The Dreaming tells of the journeys and the deeds of Spirit ancestors who made the trees, rocks, waterholes, rivers, mountains and stars, as well as the animals and plants, and whose spirits inhabit these features of the natural world today. The Dreaming stories have been passed down through thousands of years and have continued to tell Aboriginal people how they should behave, what is good and bad, and the history of their environment.