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book		Australia's lost films : the loss and rescue of Australia's silent cinema / Ray Edmondson and Andrew Pike Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1982. Call No: 71(94) EDM Author: Edmondson, Ray, 1943; Pike, Andrew, 1946 CorpAuthor: National Library of Australia Place: Canberra Publisher: National Library of Australia PubDate: 1982 PhysDes: 96 p. : ill. ; 21 cm Subject: AUSTRALIA. 1895-1930; FILMOGRAPHIES. AUSTRALIA; LOST FILMS. AUSTRALIA; PRESERVATION OF FILMS. AUSTRALIA Notes: Australian silent cinema films, 1896-1930. Filmographies (ANB/PRECIS SIN 0543527) ISBN: 0642992517 : $5.95 Aust LON: anb64299251; 2152807 More info
newspaper article		Cuts are frightening : Dressmaker director in Sydney Morning Herald (19/05/2016) p.20 Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; PROOF (AT, Jocelyn Moorhouse, 1991) Author: Maddox, Garry PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: PRESERVATION OF FILMS. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL FILM AND SOUND ARCHIVE; MOORHOUSE, JOCELYN; PROOF (AT, Jocelyn Moorhouse, 1991) Summary: Interview with filmmaker Jocelyn Moorhouse about the crowdfunding campaign to restore the film PROOF. Moorhousediscusses the recent cuts to government funding to the Australian arts scene, as well as her upcoming projects; CLARA and a mini series to be made with her husband P J Hogan More info
book		The Documentary film in Australia / edited by Ross Lansell and Peter Beilby North Melbourne: Cinema Papers in association with Film Victoria, c1982. Call No: 761(94) DOC Copy Management: Copy 1; Copy 2 Author: Beilby, Peter; Lansell, Ross CorpAuthor: Film Victoria Place: North Melbourne Publisher: Cinema Papers in association with Film Victoria PubDate: c1982 PhysDes: 205 p. : ill., ports. ; 27 cm Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ARCHIVES & INSTITUTES, FILM. AUSTRALIA; GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS. AUSTRALIA; FILMMAKING. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1920's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1960's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1970's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1980's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. NEW ZEALAND; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; PRESERVATION OF FILMS. AUSTRALIA; PRODUCTION; PRODUCTION COMPANIES & STUDIOS. AUSTRALIA; BAKER, SUZANNE; EDWARDS, JOHN; MCMAHON, TERENCE; BRADBURY, DAVID; NOONAN, CHRIS; HURLEY, FRANK; GRIERSON, JOHN Summary: Collection of essays on Australian documentary, covering the history of documentary in Australia and world-wide up until the early 1980s, documentary production, interviews with key documentary makers, information on documentary preservation and repositories, and hypotheses on the future of documentary-making in Australia. Notes: Includes index ISBN: 0959564721 : $12.95 Aust LON: 2380995 Contents: 1. What is a documentary? / John Langer; 2. A brief history of the documentary -- 1890s Australia / Chris Long -- 1900s world-wide and Australia / Ray Edmonston, Jenny Trustum -- 1910s Australia / Chris Long -- World War 1 / Phil Taylor -- 1920s world-wide and Australia / Andrew Pike -- 1930s world-wide / Jonathan Dawson -- 1930s Australia / Chris Long -- Early 1940s World War 2 / Phil Taylor -- Late 1940s world-wide / Brian McFarlane -- Late 1940s Australia / Tom Politis -- 1950s world-wide / Keith Connolly -- 1950s Australia / Anthony Buckley -- 1960s world-wide / John Pruzanski -- 1960s Australia / Ross Lansell -- 1970s world-wide and Australia / Gillian Coote -- Some issues and concerns of the 1970s / Barbara Alysen, David McDougall, Noel Purdon and Albie Thoms -- The 1980s and beyond / Ian Stocks --; 3. Documentary production today -- Government / Bruce Moir -- Specialist film units / Robert Rothols -- Television / Brian Davies -- Commerce and industry / Eve Ash and Ian McFayden -- Independent / Curtis Levy; 4. Case-histories -- Government: Suzzane Baker, John Edwards, Oliver Howes and Stephen Ramsey / Ian Stocks -- Specialist film units: Ross Campbell / Robert Rothol -- Television: Jeremy Cornford and Peter Luck / Jeremy Cornford and Nick Herd -- Commerce and industry: Terence McMahon / Eve Ash -- Independent: David Bradbury and Chris Noonan / Barbara Alysen --; 5. The marketplace / Kim Dalton --; 6. Some documentary themes -- Documentary traditions before Grierson: the case of Frank Hurley / Andrew Pike -- The Grierson tradition / Jonathan Dawson -- Propaganda then and now / John Hughes -- The television age / Tom Haydon --; 7. Preserving the past / Barbara Alysen --; 8. The documentary of the future / Fred Harden More info
Old collection book		Finding and keeping : research use of audiovisual material / edited by Marjorie Roe Sydney: Audiovisual Services Committee of the Library Association of Australia, 1987. Call No: 56 FIN Author: Roe, Marjorie. Ed. Place: Sydney Publisher: Audiovisual Services Committee of the Library Association of Australia PubDate: 1987 Subject: MULTIMEDIA; FILM STUDY AND RESEARCH. AUSTRALIA; ARCHIVES & INSTITUTES, FILM. AUSTRALIA; PRESERVATION OF FILMS. AUSTRALIA; STORY OF THE KELLY GANG, THE (AT, Charles Tait, 1906) Notes: "processings of continuing education workshop held June 28-29 , 1985 Macquarie University library" ISBN: 086040444 More info
book		The first Australian History and Film Conference papers, 1982 / edited by Anne Hutton North Ryde, N.S.W.: Australian Film and Television School, 1982. Call No: 45:93 HIS Author: Hutton, Anne CorpAuthor: Australian History and Film Conference (1st :, 1981 : Canberra, A.C.T.); Australian Film and Television School Place: North Ryde, N.S.W. Publisher: Australian Film and Television School PubDate: 1982 PhysDes: 298 p. ; 30 cm Subject: HISTORICAL FILMS; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; HISTORICAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ARCHIVES & INSTITUTES, FILM. AUSTRALIA; PRESERVATION OF FILMS. AUSTRALIA; USA. 1927-32; PSYCHOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; MYTH AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA. JAPAN; PROPAGANDA FILMS; EALING STUDIOS; FILMS FROM THE RAJ (UK, 1977); UNCIVILISED (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1936); CASABLANCA (US, Michael Curtiz, 1942); GALLIPOLI (AT, Peter Weir, 1981) Notes: Australia. Historical sources: Films. Conference proceedings (ANB/PRECIS SIN 0633798); Includes bibliographical references ISBN: 0642925402 (corrected) : price unknown 064292540 LON: 2465451 More info
journal article		New life for oz classics in Movie Trader (Apr 2000) p.8 PhysDes: Article Subject: SCREENSOUND AUSTRALIA; PRESERVATION OF FILMS. AUSTRALIA Summary: Screensound Australia, with sponsorship from the Entertainmnent Imaging Division of Kodak and Atlab Australia, announces a project to preserve and release classic Australian films of the period 1955-1992. More info
subject clippings file		PRESERVATION OF FILMS. AUSTRALIA Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: PRESERVATION OF FILMS. AUSTRALIA More info
book		Report of the Working Party on the National Film Archive in the National Library of Australia [Canberra, A.C.T.: National Library of Australia, 1979?]. Call No: 110-4(94) WOR Author: Working Party of the National Film Archive in the National Library of Australia Source: AT Place: [Canberra, A.C.T. Publisher: National Library of Australia PubDate: 1979?] PhysDes: 63 p. ; 30 cm Subject: NATIONAL FILM AND SOUND ARCHIVE; ARCHIVES & INSTITUTES, FILM. AUSTRALIA; PRESERVATION OF FILMS. AUSTRALIA Summary: Report on the need for action in safeguarding Australian recorded material and archiving it correctly Notes: Includes looseleaf supplementary material More info
newspaper article		Short cuts : Proof of life in Sydney Morning Herald (07/07/2016) p.18 Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; PROOF (AT, Jocelyn Moorhouse, 1991) Author: Rugendyke, Louise PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: CROWDFUNDING; NATIONAL FILM AND SOUND ARCHIVE; PRESERVATION OF FILMS. AUSTRALIA; PROOF (AT, Jocelyn Moorhouse, 1991) Summary: Snippet on the fundraising campaign for the restoration of the Australian film PROOF More info

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