Ask A Librarian: Picnic at Hanging Rock

There are many tales of children lost in the bush. In this week's episode, join librarians Leanne Easey and Jodi Kok in an exploration of the inspiration for one of the most famous Australian stories - Joan Lindsay's classic mystery, Picnic at Hanging Rock. Blog link: blogs.slv.vic....
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[@swagmanexplores7472]

When I first saw the film I fell head over heels in love with ‘Miranda’ still feel that way about the character and the beautiful actor Louise Anne Lambert who portrayed her so hauntingly...

[@jsa-z1722]

Me too

[@saramurphy345]

I saw the movie at a San Francisco film festival in the early 1980s. Very haunting, the mood of the film still has a place in my imagination.

[@railwaystationmaster]

A truly wonderful sumarisation of a haunting story that to this day is full of mystery and intrigue, I think the false ending actually removes more than just 8 minutes from the movie so being able to see it included does provide a large dollop of supernatural intensity to the plot that reveals a potential understanding of what may have happened , so at the risk of sounding too much like a tipsy Clive James I will conclude my brief thoughts .

[@-TheJewel-]

When I went to hanging Rock back in the 60's you can feel the energy .❤

[@fordprefect80]

Yeah, that was the heat caused by sunlight.

[@kingoztaipan]

@@-TheJewel-you walk on sacred land.

[@glengrieve544]

Great content and beautifully presented thank you for you're time and effort you put into making this video ❤

[@michelledegouveia3626]

I saw the movie years ago and was so fascinated that, now and then, I still think of it. Finding this video was a real treat. Very interesting. By the way, I love your voice.

[@mikaelakindblom4368]

Beautiful! Thank you.

[@brieziethirteen13]

I really liked this. Thank you. I attended Clyde.

[@guidadiehl9176]

Very well-made presentation.

[@lenafranklin7262]

You speak lovingly 💓💖🌿🌼

[@kooringagnd]

Thankfully not bloody AI. Nice to hear a human voice over.

[@frankh.2669]

February 14, 1900 was a Wednesday. Not a Saturday, as that fictitious newspaper clipping claims. Funny that this escaped our librarian...

[@barrymoore4470]

American film scholar Danny Peary picked up on this some forty years ago, approvingly acknowledging that Lindsay was playing a clever game with her readers.

[@rosemarykennedy5430]

You think too much! That’s dangerous!

[@LoganKM76]

I read Picnic At Hanging Rock just last week. It's an entirely entrancing story.

[@annchovey2089]

Did the movie follow the book?

[@vigilante0511]

@@annchovey2089 for the most part yes, some scenes in the movie don’t happen in the book and a couple scenes from the book aren’t included in the film but overall it follows pretty similarly

[@ponyboymb]

Great video, thanks for sharing ✌🏼

[@vinnicjus]

This rock is a transcendental portal to the other world....

[@georgeedward1226]

Or to another time as time seems to be a common theme in the story.

[@imaniquetzales8952]

@@georgeedward1226 right so these girls could have ended up at another time in life wearing dated clothing and language and had to explain who they were to other’s.

[@brieziethirteen13]

@@imaniquetzales8952 What does the a stand for in your name?

[@lenafranklin7262]

Totally RIGHT 🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌼🌼🌼🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@mumble.jumbles]

Or another way to perceive time and space.

[@marktiller1383]

It's just a story, but from personal experience the Australian bush is an extremely easy place to get lost in.

[@xr6lad]

As is any forest or bush in a large country.

[@JennyWilson-ko6gt]

Good movie , but you only have to visit the rock to know you couldn't disappear from it. You could get lost in the surrounding bush in those days ( perhaps), but the rock itself does not cover a very large area.

[@denisefreitas6727]

Great video!

[@bananalegend]

love this video

[@ericgrabowski3896]

Just read this. Thanks!

[@ivanhriljac2581]

The novel is fictitious. Nothing happened at Hanging Rock.

[@rosemarykennedy5430]

Indigenous sacred sites are spooky. I was creeped out at Halls Gap!

[@jerichothirteen1134]

It does matter.

[@Dusty-y6b]

Good movie!

[@eternaldoorman5228]

Thanks for taking the time to make this. It's a very interesting piece and sheds some light on the background of the book. I have been wondering for some years now where the English name _Hanging Rock_ came from. It sounds to me like it could have been from the colonial era and that perhaps there had at one time been a gallows there.

[@anitapresnell6403]

I saw the movie when I was 10. It appeared to be truth to me back then but it is really a good suspense/drama story written by the author

[@keelieinwonderland]

Didn’t her husband have a picture of hanging rock in his office at ngv?

[@debrawebster1356]

Been there had really bad vibes didnt hang around for long

[@beldengi]

Please fix the subtitles. It is Joan Lindsay, not John LIndsay.

[@kooringagnd]

Depends on what her pronouns were.

[@SaintMartins]

I think it was a "suicide pack". 1. Kids who are sent off to boarding schools far from their parents & siblings often get depressed & feel abandoned & not wanted. 2. Not living in the comfort of their own home & having to live with strangers & strict school employees can be psychological torcher. 3. Reaching puberty & being in an all girls school not interacting with boys can have an affect social skills. In the film the girls knew/planned their fate & allowed that 4th girl to tag along to witness. Remember what the girl was talking about before they disappeared. "doomed to die of course....the boys stood on the burning deck.." Then the girls walked up the rock & stood on top then jumped off.

[@snowyskylar8821]

Torture

[@barrymoore4470]

But remember that no bodies were ever found at the Rock. This complicates the notion that the girls and their governess (for an adult governess also disappears, never to be seen again) died that day.

[@theseustoo]

"Suicide pact"... not 'pack'... 😉

[@turonbrumby6731]

The sad part is if Sarah was allowed to go to the picnic she would have been reunited with her brother Bertie and maby they wouldn't have ended up lost on the rock and Sarah wouldn't be dead

[@alonzocalvillo6702]

Well is it a true story? I always thought it was something like those Missiing 411 cases.

[@barrymoore4470]

The novel is a fiction (for one thing, Valentine's Day fell on a Wednesday in 1900, not the Saturday indicated by the author), but Lindsay occasionally made suggestions that some of the characters may have been inspired by people she had known.

[@gregfox336]

Talking in the third person?

[@BarbaraWaterfall-ob4zv]

It. Was. Fiction

[@PassionJo777]

Forever a mystery....

[@RtB68]

Quartette of schoolgirls? It was a trio and their uptight mathematics teacher wasn’t it???

[@jerichothirteen1134]

Four girls went for a walk, one (Edith) came back but the teacher was also gone from the picnic ground when all the others woke up. Irma was found by Albert a week later at the top of the rock. Clear as mud.

[@yav767]

kelly gang did it

[@theseustoo]

🤣

[@DavidCampbell-w4u]

I am haouted by the story

[@lucylovic]

No. It has no basis in reality.

[@josephwarra5043]

Aliens

[@debrawebster1356]

Alien abuction

[@kingoztaipan]

Ask mick jagger and the rolling stones what they think about the place 😅

[@theseustoo]

As Mick and the band are not easily accessible, why don't you tell us? After all, you're suggesting that you DO know... so how about it?

[@kingoztaipan]

@theseustoo possibly google if can't ask Mick or Keith lmfao.. Can't make it that easy for you..... Scheduled to play there twice..never did..but up to you to find out why... Always remember,the places that the settlers found that they considered nice, majestic, spectacular were already sacred.

[@jsa-z1722]

What a shame you had to ruin a review of this marvellous classic by grinding our noses into divisive politics

[@ginalowe1924]

The story is fiction

[@AT-st5dr]

This sounds like Anne Lambert narrating. I bet it is.