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Tagged: oral history

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Annette performs her own stunts
Annette Kellerman says she never needed a stunt double in any of her films. She also talks about her infamous swim in a pool full of crocodiles on the shoot for the silent feature A Daughter of the...
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Remembering the Great Depression
Oral historian Wendy Lowenstein talks about her book Weevils in the Flour which is about the lives of Australians during The Great Depression. Mike Walsh also interviews Jack and Phyllis Acland about...
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Bryan Brown on working with Heath Ledger
Actor Bryan Brown talks about working with Heath Ledger on Two Hands (1999) when Ledger was 20 years old and just starting out. Brown tells the anecdote of talking with writer Thomas Keneally after a...
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Rex Heading on Bobo and Humphrey B Bear
In this filmed oral history from 2000, Rex Heading recalls working with Hal Turner's Bobo the Clown at NWS9 and creating Humphrey B Bear when Turner left the station to star in his own show on rival...
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Norman Yemm on starting in the entertainment industry
Excerpts from a 2005 Oral History interview with Norman Yemm. 
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Barry Cohen - Oral History (excerpt)
Barry Cohen, Minister for Home Affairs in 1984, interviewed by James McCarthy. He talks about the persistence of Ray Edmondson and the genesis of an autonomous NFSA.
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Benny and the Dreamers: Desert economy
Aerial shots of Hermannsburg in Central Australia are followed by black-and-white historical footage of Indigenous people going about their business on the mission. Interview footage of Pastor F. W...
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Benny and the Dreamers: Path to progress
After black-and-white footage of Pintubi people, Smithy Zimeran Tjampitjinpa recalls being moved to Papunya. Yuyua Nampitjinpa talks about her experience in the mission school. Summary by Romaine...
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Snake Dreaming: Where are the children?
The food gathering expedition returns to find the children left at the camp missing. The tracks reveal that a white man with boots had entered the camp and taken the children while the older women...
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Snake Dreaming: Child's play
A black-and-white clip shows the dramatisation of a story told by the old people in Central Australia. Children are playing games – clapping, drawing in the dirt. A woman announces that some children...
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