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book		Address to the 40th Annual Motion Picture Industry Convention / [address by Kim Williams, Chief Executive, Australian Film Commission, late 1985] 1985. Call No: 171(94) WIL Source: AT PubDate: 1985 PhysDes: 11 pages ; 30 cm Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN FILM COMMISSION; PRODUCTION COMPANIES & STUDIOS. AUSTRALIA; PRODUCTION. AUSTRALIA; MOTION PICTURE DISTRIBUTORS ASSOCIATION. AUSTRALIA; TAXES. AUSTRALIA; EXHIBITION. AUSTRALIA; DISTRIBUTION. AUSTRALIA Summary: Kim Williams gives the Australian Film Commission's point of view regarding the main issues and challenges of the Australian film industry from all aspects. A key subject area of the speech relates to federal government taxes in Australia, particularly the administration of 10 BA More info
Interim book		Chasing the runaways : foreign film production and film studio development in Australia 1988-2002 / Nick Herd Sydney: Currency House, 2004. Call No: 210(94) HER Author: Herd, Nick Source: AT Place: Sydney Publisher: Currency House PubDate: 2004 PhysDes: 120 p. ; 21 cm Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; LABOUR. AUSTRALIA; PRODUCTION COMPANIES & STUDIOS. AUSTRALIA; PRODUCTION DEALS. AUSTRALIA; GOVERNMENT AID. AUSTRALIA; STATE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; STUDIOS, FILM. AUSTRALIA; STUDIOS, FILM. USA; WARNER ROADSHOW MOVIE WORLD STUDIOS; FOX STUDIOS AUSTRALIA Summary: Australia is proud of its film industry. Government has invested millions. Our stars win Oscars. Are we receiving the benefits of our investment? Is our industry thriving? Or is it swamped by foreign ‘runaway’ productions from other people’s film industries? Who controls the films we make? In a timely quest for answers, Nick Herd examines the controversies surrounding our film studios, the forces of globalisation and the tensions between the cultural and industry imperatives. ISBN: 0958121338 More info
book		Cinema cities, media cities : The contemporary international studio complex / Australian Film Commission Sydney: Australian Film Commission, 2003. Call No: 210.31 GOL Author: Goldsmith, Ben; O'Regan, Tom Place: Sydney Publisher: Australian Film Commission PubDate: 2003 PhysDes: 28 cm; 117 pp Series: Screen Industry, Culture and Policy Research Subject: STUDIOS, FILM. AUSTRALIA; STUDIOS, FILM. AUSTRALIA: NEW SOUTH WALES; STUDIOS, FILM. AUSTRALIA: VICTORIA; STUDIO SYSTEM; STUDIO SHOOTING; PRODUCTION CENTRES : HOLLYWOOD; PRODUCTION. AUSTRALIA; PRODUCTION. EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; PRODUCTION. UK; PRODUCTION. USA; PRODUCTION COMPANIES & STUDIOS; GOVERNMENT AID; FOX STUDIOS AUSTRALIA; HOLLYWOOD Summary: Studio complexes are an important part of the way places around the world compete for and participate in international production. Many studios, in a range of locations, now have the size and sophistication to service large-budget feature film production. This comprehensive study of contemporary international studio considers the circumstances in which this rash of studio complex building and renovating has occurred – in places as diverse as Rome, London, Berlin, Prague, Vancouver, Toronto, Sydney, the Gold Coast and Melbourne. Central to the study is an understanding of studio complexes as cinema and media cities providing not only sound stages but a full range of production and post-production services in the one location. Cinema Cities, Media Cities is the first published analysis of this new international studio system, its origins, its business and its policy contexts. [Taken from back cover.] ISBN: 0958015279 More info
Special issue serial		"COLUMBIA PICTURES: SEVENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY" 25 January 1999. Call No: JOURNAL SHELVES. VARIETY PubDate: 25 January 1999 Subject: SONY CORPORATION; COLUMBIA PICTURES; PRODUCTION COMPANIES & STUDIOS. USA; HISTORY OF CINEMA Language: English 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
journal article		Empire Intrnational and American Nat'l. Enterprises join American Film Market in Australasian Cinema (Friday, 16/9/1983) vol.12 iss.17 p.2 PhysDes: Article Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; ECONOMICS AND THE CINEMA; PRODUCTION COMPANIES & STUDIOS. USA Summary: Article on Empire International (a European-based production company) and American National Enterprises (an American production and distribution company) joining the American Film Market Association. Brief histories are supplied for each of the three companies. More info
book		Film production services in Australia 1974 / Department of the Media Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, Call No: (058.7) FIL (94) CorpAuthor: Department of the Media Edition: 1974 Place: Canberra Publisher: Australian Government Publishing Service PhysDes: 116 pages ; 26 cm Subject: AUSTRALIA; PRODUCTION. AUSTRALIA; PRODUCTION COMPANIES & STUDIOS. AUSTRALIA; PRODUCTION CENTRES. AUSTRALIA ISBN: 9780642004963 More info
journal article		The Hollywood Reporter. Australia '89 Special Report On Location in Australia in The Hollywood Reporter (24/2/1989) vol.306 iss.24 p.S1-72 PhysDes: Focus Issue Subject: AUSTRALIAN FILM COMMISSION; PRODUCTION COMPANIES & STUDIOS. AUSTRALIA; PRODUCTION DEALS. AUSTRALIA; PRODUCTION, TV. AUSTRALIA; DISTRIBUTION. AUSTRALIA; ACTORS EQUITY AUSTRALIA; FILM VICTORIA; GOVERNMENT AID. AUSTRALIA; FINANCING. AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AUSTRALIAN FILM CORPORATION; NEW SOUTH WALES FILM CORPORATION; WESTERN AUSTRALIAN FILM COUNCIL; FUNDING. AUSTRALIA Summary: Special edition of The Hollywood Report focusing on the Australian film and television industries of 1989. Features articles on the Australian national and state funding, financing and distribution environements, Actors' Equity, the video industry, emerging Australian talent, and various statistical reports. Notes: See also: 'The Hollywood Reporter. A Special Report On Location in Australia', Vol. 300, Iss.27, 05/01/1988 More info
book		The Hollywood studio system : a history London: British Film Institute, 2005. Call No: 210.31(73) GOM Author: Douglas Gomery CorpAuthor: British Film Institute Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 2005 PhysDes: 333 p. ; 23 cm Subject: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; WARNER BROS.; COLUMBIA PICTURES; UNITED ARTISTS; RKO; HOLLYWOOD; STUDIOS, FILM. USA; PRODUCTION COMPANIES & STUDIOS. USA; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; UNIVERSAL PICTURES; ZUKOR, ADOLPH; WASSERMAN, LEW; HISTORY OF CINEMA Summary: Despite being one of the most influential industries in the United States, indeed the world, the internal workings of the “dream factory” that is Hollywood is little understood outside the business. The Hollywood Studio System: A History is the first book to describe and analyse the complete development, classic operation, and reinvention of the global corporate entities which produce and distribute most of the films we watch…Gomery’s history tells the story of a “tale of two systems” using primary materials from a score of archives using primary materials from a score of archives across the United States as well as a close reading of both the business and trade press of the time, together with a range of photographs never before published. [Taken from back cover.] ISBN: 1844570649 More info
Levy Collection book		Inside Warner Bros. (1935-1951) : the battles, the brainstorms, and the bickering-from the files of Hollywood's greatest studio / selected, edited and annotated by Rudy Behlmer London: Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1987. Call No: 19WAR BEH Author: Behlmer, Rudy Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Weidenfield and Nicolson PubDate: 1987 PhysDes: xix, 358p, [16]p of plates : ill., 1facsim, ports ; 24cm Subject: FILMMAKING; HOLLYWOOD; INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; PRODUCERS. USA; PRODUCTION COMPANIES & STUDIOS. USA; PRODUCTION. USA; STAR SYSTEM; STUDIO SYSTEM; WARNER BROS.; BOGART, HUMPHREY; HUSTON, JOHN Summary: "Few books offer as direct and intimate a portrait of the tumult, trauma and glory of making films as this fascinating collection. Culled from Warner Bros's voluminous files, these memos and letters recapture - from inspiration to filming, through fights and reconciliations - the creation of some of the most popular films ever made: Casablanca, Mildred Pierce, Yankee Doodle Dandy, The Maltese Falcon, Johnny Belinda, A Streetcar Named Desire and many, many more."--BOOK BLURB Notes: California. Los Angeles. Hollywood. Cinema industries: Warner Brothers,. to 1951 (BNB/PRECIS) Originally published: New York : Viking, 1985 ; London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986. Includes index. ISBN: 0297792423 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
book		International film financing / transcript of a seminar with Michael Flint Sydney: Australian Film and Television School, 1980. Call No: 162(94)INT FLI Author: Flint, Michael Source: AT Place: Sydney Publisher: Australian Film and Television School PubDate: 1980 PhysDes: 53 pages ; 30 cm Series: Open program resources Subject: PRODUCTION; PRODUCTION COMPANIES & STUDIOS; PRODUCTION COMPANIES & STUDIOS. AUSTRALIA; PRODUCTION DEALS; FUNDING. AUSTRALIA; FINANCING; FINANCING. USA; AUSTRALIA. 1970's; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; BOX OFFICE Summary: Seminar transcript where Michael Flint and Matthew Carroll, and John Fitzgerald give a broad view of the state of the film industry in the late 1970's in Australia and around the world in terms of financing films and deals to make films. Some films mentioned include The Last Wave, Sunday Too Far Away, Picnic at Hanging Rock Notes: Appendices - some film industry terms defined (7 pages) -- examples of box office division, territory breakdown, breakdown of film expenses and finances (14 pages More info
book		Light and shadows : a history of motion pictures / Thomas W. Bohn, and Richard L. Stromgren, with the assistance of Daniel H. Johnson Port Washington, N.Y.: Alfred Pub. Co., [1975]. Call No: 70 BOH Author: Bohn, Thomas W., 1941; Stromgren, Richard L., 1932-, joint author; Johnson, Daniel H., 1940-, joint author Place: Port Washington, N.Y. Publisher: Alfred Pub. Co. PubDate: [1975] PhysDes: xvii, 537 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA; NEOREALISM; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; PRODUCTION COMPANIES & STUDIOS. USA; DOCUMENTARIES; PRE-CINEMA HISTORY; NOUVELLE VAGUE; COMEDIANS Notes: Includes indexes; Bibliography: p. 513-520 ISBN: 088284024X : $8.00 LON: 737594 More info
newspaper article		Merger sign of the times in Herald Sun (23/11/2015) p.29 Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; FREMANTLEMEDIA Author: Buchanan, Brian PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: FREMANTLEMEDIA; PRODUCTION COMPANIES & STUDIOS. AUSTRALIA Summary: Brief interivew with FremantleMedia CEO Ian Hogg who talks about the recent merger of Endemol and Shine, and the direction his company is taking with a mention of Family Feud More info
book		Movies from the mansion : a history of Pinewood Studios / George Perry London: Elm Tree Books, 1976. Call No: 19PIN PER Author: Perry, George, 1935 Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Elm Tree Books PubDate: 1976 PhysDes: 186, [5] p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 29 cm Subject: PINEWOOD STUDIOS; PRODUCTION CENTRES : HOLLYWOOD; PRODUCTION COMPANIES & STUDIOS; STUDIOS, FILM; WORLD WAR II AND THE CINEMA Summary: "George Perry surveys Pinewood's not always certain progress from its beginnings through the bleak war years, post-war austerity, dollar crises and the encroachment of television to the resurgence of the '60s and '70s. In doing so, he tells the story of the people who made Pinewood : of stars as varied as Jack Buchanan, Jack Hawkins and Roger Moore, Glenda Jackson and Jessie Matthews; of great directors such as Lean, Reed, Neame, Huston, Truffaut, Hitchcock, and even Chaplin; of the talented craftsmen whose skills have attracted film-makers from all over the world." [Taken from book jacket] Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 182 ISBN: 0241895006 : ª6.95 LON: 866478 More info
subject clippings file		PRODUCTION COMPANIES & STUDIOS Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: PRODUCTION COMPANIES & STUDIOS More info
subject clippings file		PRODUCTION COMPANIES & STUDIOS. AUSTRALIA Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: PRODUCTION COMPANIES & STUDIOS. AUSTRALIA More info
book		Report to the Minister on national interest program production 1989/90 / Film Australia Australia: Film Australia, 1990. Call No: 023(94) FIL Author: Film Australia Source: AT Place: Australia Publisher: Film Australia PubDate: 1990 PhysDes: 38 p. ; 30 cm Subject: FILM AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; PRODUCTION; PRODUCTION COMPANIES & STUDIOS. AUSTRALIA Summary: Film Australia's annual report on programs produced for 1989/90 Contents: Brief project description along with festival and awards information for the following films and documentaries -- The Snowy: A Dream of Growing Up (Stephen Ramsey, 1989) -- How Wonderful (Lynn Hegarty, 1990) -- Great National Parks of Australia (Eddie Moses, 1990) -- Mortgage (Bill Bennett, 1990) -- Shearing the Rams (Martin Daley, 1990) -- Kakadu Man (Michael Balson, 1990) -- Breakthrough Series More info
journal article		Screen International. Focus on Australia '79 in Screen International (28/4-05/05/1979) iss.187 p.13-59 PhysDes: Focus Issue Subject: AUSTRALIAN FILM COMMISSION; DISTRIBUTION. AUSTRALIA; GOVERNMENT AID. AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AUSTRALIAN FILM CORPORATION; AUSTRALIAN FILM INSTITUTE; FUNDING. AUSTRALIA; LAST WAVE, THE (AT, Peter Weir, 1977); HOYTS; GREATER UNION; PRODUCTION COMPANIES & STUDIOS. AUSTRALIA Summary: Articles on the state of the Australian film industry, many focusing on proposed funding changes, the role of producers in making a film, and various distribution deals. John Morris, Antony Ginnane, Paul Davies, Fred Schepisi, and Graham Burke were consulted within some of the articles. Peter Weir's 'The Last Wave' features heavily as an example of the emerging Australian film scene. Includes numerous visuals of various Australian films and television shows Notes: In bound Screen International book 'Focus on Australia '79' appears both in Iss.187, and as a second copy at the end. For other Australian Focus Issue resources see;'The Hollywood Reporter. A Special Report On Location in Australia', V.300, Iss.27, 05/01/1988'The Hollywood Reporter. Australia '89 Special Report On Location in Australia', V.306, Iss. 24, 24/02/1989 More info
book		Storming the magic kingdom : Wall Street, the raiders and the battle for Disney / John Taylor New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. Call No: 19DIS TAY Author: Taylor, John Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf PubDate: 1987 PhysDes: x, 261 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 26 cm Subject: WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; INDUSTRY, FILM; PRODUCTION COMPANIES & STUDIOS. USA; PRODUCTION COSTS; PRODUCTION DEALS; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; AHMANSON, CAROLINE; BAGNALL, MICHAEL; BALDWIN, ROBERT; BASS, SID RICHARDSON; BERGER, RICHARD; BOESKY, IVAN; CHAMBERS, RICHARD; CHECCHI, ALFRED; COBB, CHARLES; DAILY, PETER; DAVIS, MARTIN; DAVIS, MARVIN; DILLER, BARRY; DISNEY, ROY EDWARD; DISNEY, WALT; DRAPKIN, DONALD; EISNER, MICHAEL; FLOM, JOSEPH; GOLD, STANLEY; JACOBS, IRWIN; HAWLEY, PHILIP; KELLNER. PETER; MILLER, RONALD; RAINWATER, RICHARD; STEINBURG, SAUL; WATSON, RAYMOND L Summary: "The riveting account of how a covey of corporate raiders and Wall Street mercenaries launched an assault on that bastion of American values, Walt Disney Productions, and of the furious combat that followed" - BOOK JACKET Notes: Includes index ISBN: 0394546407 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
journal article		Taffner, Ramsay Group in Merger Down Under in The Hollywood Reporter (01/05/1988) vol.300 iss.27 p.I3 Author: Hanrahan, John PhysDes: Article Subject: PRODUCTION COMPANIES & STUDIOS. AUSTRALIA; TELEVISION. AUSTRALIA Summary: Announcement of a merger between the Paul Ramsay Group and D. L. Taffner to create Taffner-Ramsay Productions, an Australian-based production company focusing on television. More info
journal article		Variety- Australia/New Zealand Section in Variety (21/10/1987) vol.328 iss.13 p.20, 103, 244, 426-440 PhysDes: Serial Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; INDUSTRY, FILM. NEW ZEALAND; BOX OFFICE. AUSTRALIA; PRODUCTION COMPANIES & STUDIOS. AUSTRALIA Summary: Various articles on Australian and New Zealand film industries. Austrlian articles focus on current box office films and takings, changes to do with distribution and acquisitions companies, films in production, Australian organisations at MIFED, and the expansion of Premier Film Marketing. New Zealand article focuses on films screening at MIFED. Advertising posters for EVIL ANGEL, HOWLING III: THE MARSUPIALS, DOGS IN SPACE, STARLIGHT HOTEL, ILLUSTRIOUS ENERGY, A SOLDIER'S TALE, THE RIGHT HAND MAN, BELINDA, AS TIME GOES BY, NGATI More info
journal article		Vision, obsession and the school of hard knocks : Johnathan M. Shiff in Lumina (2009) iss.1 p.136-147 Author: Urban, Andrew; Shiff, Johnathan PhysDes: Article Subject: SHIFF, JOHNATHAN; PRODUCTION COMPANIES & STUDIOS. AUSTRALIA; INDUSTRY, TV. AUSTRALIA; PRODUCTION. AUSTRALIA Summary: Interview with Johnathan M. Schiff on the subject of his independent production company specialising in children's television programmes. More info
journal article		Way out west in Lumiere (January/February, 1974) iss.31 p.26-27 Author: Rowe, Don PhysDes: Article Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA : WESTERN AUSTRALIA; PRODUCTION COMPANIES & STUDIOS. AUSTRALIA Summary: Article on the film scene in Western Australia. Looks at various production companies and producers based in Western Australia. More info

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