Fredd Bear
1972
Fredd Bear
1972
- NFSA IDN029VWSW
- TypeTelevision
- MediumMoving Image
- FormAdvertisement (includes promotional), Series
- GenresChildren
- Year1972
In a film probably made as a promotion for The Wonderful World of the Young, Fredd Bear has obviously hit the big time. The clip frames him as a celebrity, less a TV personality than an A-list actor. To a jazzed-up version of the 'Love Theme' from Franco Zeffirelli’s hit 1968 film Romeo and Juliet, he enters the scene in a chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce and is saluted by the doorkeeper. Fredd has his own customised psychedelic-print luggage, and gets a face-brush from adoring make-up girls as well as a kiss from his co-star Judy Banks.
In a film probably made as a promotion for The Wonderful World of the Young, Fredd Bear has obviously hit the big time. The clip frames him as a celebrity, less a TV personality than an A-list actor. To a jazzed-up version of the 'Love Theme' from Franco Zeffirelli’s hit 1968 film Romeo and Juliet, he enters the scene in a chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce and is saluted by the doorkeeper. Fredd has his own customised psychedelic-print luggage, and gets a face-brush from adoring make-up girls as well as a kiss from his co-star Judy Banks.
- NFSA IDN029VWSW
- TypeTelevision
- MediumMoving Image
- FormAdvertisement (includes promotional), Series
- GenresChildren
- Year1972
The clip is shot at the studios of Channel 0 in Nunawading, Melbourne. We see the control room, with several ATV-0 staff directing the episode, and a sequence from an actual episode, filmed just to the left of one of the broadcast cameras. Fredd Bear (played by Tedd Dunn), Judy Banks, Colin McEwan and newsreader Michael McCarthy are all glimpsed here.
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