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900 Neighbours, 219 Armstrong, Gillian, 26, 155 100,000 Cobbers, 47 Around Australia with the Prince of Wales, 42 art of documentary, 11 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander As the Mirror Burns, 202 Commission (ATSIC), 172 Ashbolt, Allan, 62, 68, 70 National Indigenous Documentary Fund Asian documentaries, 202 (NIDF), 25, 129 Asian Insight, 76 Aborigines of the Sea Coast, 191 Ask the Leyland Brothers, 73 Access: Experiment in Port Adelaide, 76 At Sea, 136–7 Accords, 95–7, 103, 106, 117 Atkin, Mark, 105 case studies, 103–6 audiences, 9–10 Across Australia in the Track of Burke and Wills, and voice of documentaries, 27–9 44 Audio Visual Copyright Society. Across Australia with Francis Birtles, 44 See Screenrights Across the Top, 73 Australasian Films, 45 Ada, 205 Australasian Gazette, 40–1 Adams, Keith, 73, 75, 82 Australia by Numbers, 174 Adams, Phillip, 161 Australia Calling, 47 Adamson, Judy,147 Australia Council, 98 Addis, Erika, 93, 94, 142 Australia Day by Day, 42 Addison Road Drop-In, 80 Australia Today, 46, 61 Adelaide Board for Anthropological Australian Biography, 148 Research, 190–1 Australian Broadcasting Authority After Mabo, 24, 138–40 Documentary Guidelines, 185, After Maeve, 29–32 186, 210 Against the Innocent, 103 Australian Broadcasting Corporation Allen, Jack, 50, 52, 56 (ABC), 87 Altmann, Karin, 201 ABC 2, 169 Among the Hardwoods, 47 ABC Online, 169–70 An Airman Remembers, 69 and Accords, 95, 117 Anatomy of a Massacre, 183 and Australian Broadcasting Tribunal Anderson, Alan, 48, 60 (ABT), 161, 164 Anderson, Robin, 22, 82, 135, 149–52, 150, charter, 59, 102 153, 201 and Commonwealth Film Unit (CFU), 61 animation, 204–6 culture, 170 Annear, Debra, 139 digital television, 169 Ansara, Martha, 201 Dix Review, 82, 86, 87

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Australian Broadcasting corporation National Indigenous Documentary Fund (ABC) (cont.) (NIDF), 25, 129 and documentaries, 62–4, 65, 68–72, No Frills Fund, 140 74–5, 159, 161–2, 167–8, 170, 235 Producer Fellowship scheme, 144 Documentary Fellowship scheme, 90, Project Development Branch, 82 144, 145, 148, 165 review, 134 documentary production, 162–4 Special Production Fund, 101, 113, 130, Documentary Unit, 87, 162, 164–7 134 Features Department, 74–5, 161 Strand V for Interactive Digital Media, 30 and Film Australia, 148 Women’s Film Fund (WFF), 26, 27, genres, 8 134, 143 and independent documentaries, 82, 86, 88 Australian Impact, 97 and independent producers, 161, 164–5 Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Indigenous Program Unit, 25 Torres Strait Islander Studies and Indigenous programs, 200–1 (AIATSIS), 191–3, 197–8 iView, 170 ethnographic ﬁlm conference, 198–200, National Talks Advisory Committee, 60 223 Natural History Unit, 75, 202–4 Film Unit, 195–7 and Non-Accords, 168 Australian International Development pre-sales, 91 Assistance Bureau, 92 program slots, 97 Australian International Documentary science documentaries, 202–4 Conference (AIDC), 131, 161, 168 Science Unit, 203 Australian Kinematographic Company, 35, Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), 162 39 television, 59 Australian Londoners, The, 72 triple j tv, 169 Australian Mosaic, 98, 142 Australian Broadcasting Tribunal (ABT), 90, Australian Movie Magazine, 45 102, 177, 187 Australian Movietone News, 47 and Australian Broadcasting Corporation Australian National Documentary (ABC), 161, 164 Conference (see AIDC), 88–9 Australian Content Inquiry, 164 Australian National Film Board, 47, 49–52, Australian Communications and Media 54, 57 Authority (ACMA), 187, 237, 241 Australian Story, 236 Australian Copyright Act, 213 Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM), 213, Australian Diary, 50, 51 214 Australian Film and Television School, 74 Australians at War, 221 Australian Film Commission (AFC), 86, 107, Australia’s Funniest Home Videos, 184 119, 133, 158, 211 Australia’s Lonely Lands, 44 ‘AFC genre’, 27 Australia’s Most Wanted, 184 budget cuts, 141 case studies, 136–7, 142–3 Back of Beyond, The, 54–5 Creative Development Branch (CDB), 27, Baglin, Douglas, 77 77, 79, 81, 134 Bagnall, Frank, 47, 56 and documentaries, 134–5, 144, 145 Baker and Rouse, 37, 39 Documentary Fellowship scheme, Bandler, Faith, 70 90, 134 Bani, Ephraim, 201 Film Australia, 77 Barbash, I., 198 and ﬁlm development, 144 Bardwell, Harry, 87, 92, 94, 96, 120, 123, funding, 134–5, 142–3 165 Indigenous Branch, 25, 138 Barnes, Geoff, 167, 173 and industry, 143–4 Barnett, Walter, 33 and marketing, 144 Batty, David, 200 Microdocs, 137, 145 Bean, C. E. W., 43

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Beattie, Debra, 169 Bropho, Robert, 201 Beggs, Neil, 27, 61 Brown, Bob, 183 Below the Wind, 123 Brown, Denys, 75 Belsham, Bruce, 163, 168, 169 Brown, Murray, 187, 241 Bennett, Bill, 146 Brown, Shaun, 176 Benson, Shan, 61 Burne, Al, 44 Beyond Reasonable Doubt, 75 Burne, George, 44 Beyond Tomorrow, 203 Burning Piano: A Portrait of Patrick White, The, Big Blue, The, 204 166 Big Brother Australia, 185 Burton, Geoff, 221 Big Country, A, 68, 75 Bush Mechanics, 200 Big Eye Productions, 18 Bush Quest, 203 Big hART, 218–19 Butler, Harry, 75 Billy and Percy, 75 Butt, Peter, 156, 170 Birth of the Red Kangaroo, 203 Birtles, Francis, 43 Calcutta Christmas, A, 20–2, 202 Bitter Springs, 139 Calvert, Frances, 201 Black Harvest, 149, 151 Camels and the Pitjantjatjarra, 196 Blackout, 200 cameras, 61, 84, 186 Blackwood, Jennie, 65 early, 33–4, 36 Blight, Rosemary, 142 Campbell, Bob, 114, 115 Blood Brothers, 172 Campbell, Draper, 190 Blow, Mark, 39 Campbell, James Pinkerton, 41 Bluem, William, 60 Cane Cutters, The, 50, 54 Bom Bali, 126, 179 Cane Toads - An Unnatural History, 81, 146 Bondi Rescue, 179, 187 Cannibal Tours, 202 Bondi Rescue: Bali, 179 Carter, Alan, 125 Boot Cake, The, 131 Carty, William, 47 Booth, Herbert, 36 case studies Border Security, 187, 235, 236 documentary production, 100–2 Born into Brothels, 220 funding, 92–5, 103–6, 119–27, 128–32, Borroloola Tribal Council, 190 136–7, 138–40, 142–3 Bougainville: Our Island, Our Fight, 21, 174 National Indigenous Documentary Fund Bowden, Helen, 100–2 (NIDF), 149–52 Bradbury, David, 78, 82, 83, 86, 201 voice of documentaries, 16–20, 29–32 Brady, Robyn, 29, 30, 31, 32 Catalyst, 203 Brady, Tait, 115 Cattoni, Jan, 29–32, 31 Bread and Dripping, 22 Caulﬁeld, Michael, 221 Brealey, Gil, 65, 75 Cavadini, Alessandro, 80, 190, 242, 243 Breath, A, 120–2, 121 CD Rom, 156, 169 Breathing Under Water, 92 Celso and Cora, 202 Bremner, Ian, 178, 179 Central American documentaries, 201 Bretherton, Di, 202 Central Australian Aboriginal Media Brief Survey of the Activities of the Brisbane City Association (CAAMA), 200 Mission, A, 46 Chainsaw, 205 Briski, Zana, 220 Chambers, Tania, 181 Broadcasting for Remote Aboriginal Change at Groote, The, 66, 67 Communities Scheme (BRACS), 199 Changing Race, A, 69 Broadcasting Services Act, 200, 227 Channel 7 Brockie, Jenny, 163 and Accords, 96, 117 Broinowski, Anna, 131 and documentaries, 72, 77, 78, 159, 170, Broken English, 172 178, 187, 235 Brooks, Alma, 46 Film Australia ﬁlms, 77

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Channel 9, 59 Commonwealth government and documentaries, 62, 72, 78, 159, 178, Cinema and Photographic Branch, 46 187 Cinema Branch, 42 travel genre, 73 documentary production, 41–2, 46–7 Channel 10 Concerned Documentary Makers, 157 and documentaries, 72, 78, 159, 177–80, Coniston Muster – Scenes from a Stockman’s Life, 187 196 Film Australia films, 77 Connolly, Bob, 82, 135, 149–52, 150, 201 Channels of History, 21 Connolly, Sharon, 146, 147, 148, 240 Chapman, Mark, 30 and Film Australia, 152–3 Charlton, Michael, 63, 68 Conspiracy, 104 Chase, Graham, 167 Constructing Australia, 155 Chauvel, Charles, 47, 63 Cook, Sid, 39, 44 Chauvel, Elsa, 63 Cooke, Kaz, 156 Chequerboard, 71, 75 Coorab in the Island of Ghosts, 44 Chifley, Ben, 52 Cop it Sweet, 164 Children of the Crocodile, 217 Cordeaux, Christopher, 151 Chile: Hasta Cuando?, 201 Cordell, Michael, 122, 183, 239 Chinese Take Away, 143 Corner, John, 10–11, 27, 78, Choir of Hard Knocks, The, 187 184, 209, 211–12 Cinema Quarterly, 54 Coughlan, Frank, 29, 30, 31, 32 Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment, 61 Coughlan, Maeve, 29 Cinesound Production Ltd, 45, 53 Cowan, Tom, 67 Cinesound Review, 45, 47, 53, 74 Cracks in the Mask, 201 Cities of the Empire, 46 Craik, Jennifer, 111, 113 civic projects, 212–25 Crawford, Phillip, 219 Clark, Tim, 221 Creative Nation, 88, 102, 140 Clarke, Colleen, 120 Cresswell, Catherine, 120 Climate of Change, 203 Crime Investigation Australia, 187 Close Up, 54 Crooke, Marion, 128 Coffey, Essie, 80, 201 Cross, Bert, 45 Coldicutt, Ken, 52 Crude, 204 Cole, Beck, 130 Crystal Voyager, 73 Coleman, Peter, 137 CSIRO, 203 Coles-Janess, Wayne, 21, 174 cultural heritage institutions, 220–5 Collum Calling Canberra, 199 Cunnamulla, 153, 202 Colony, The, 176, 185–6 Custody, 81, 146 Combine, the, 40–1 Cutting Edge, 97 Coming of the Dawn, The, 73 Cyclone Tracy, 76 commercial documentary production, 42–4, 77–8 Daley, Michael, 203 commercial television Dalton, Kim, 144, 242 documentaries, 72–3 Dance Time Kalumburu, 192 quotas, 102, 177, 178, 186, 187, 235 Dances from Aurukun, 192 Commercial Television Production Fund, Dancing Orpheus, 203 102, 140 Darling, Ian, 217 commissioning editors, 28, 91–2, 102, 173 Darling, John, 123 Commonwealth Film Conference, 49 Darra Dogs, The, 205 Commonwealth Film Division, 56 Dave in the Life, 176, 183 Commonwealth Film Unit (CFU), 4, 27, Davidson, Charles, 72 59–60, 61, 65–7, 74, 146 Davies, Brian, 77 and ABC, 61 Davies, Will, 99

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de Heer, Rolf, 222 and cultural heritage institutions, 220–5 Dean, Colin, 49, 50 deﬁned, 211–12 December Films, 168 ethnographic, 38–9, 66, 189–201 Delivering the Pandas, 178 factual, 187–9, 235–6 Dellora, Daryl, 103–6, 106 and Film Australia, 152–4, 157–8 Delofski, Maree, 20–2, 202 and Film Finance Corporation (FFC), Dennison, Richard, 78, 124 112, 116–19 Denny, Therese, 69 historical, 154–6, 220–5 Denton, Kit, 64, 71 in 1960s, 64–73 Department of Aboriginal Affairs, in 1970s, 73–80 138 in 1980s, 81–4 Department of Education, Training and independent, 78–80 Youth Affairs, 226 on commercial television, 72–3 Department of Employment, Education and and SBS Independent (SBSi), 159, 172–5 Youth Affairs, 218 and Screen Australia, 237–9 Department of External Affairs, 41, 42 science, 202–4 Department of Immigration, 51, 147 and Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), Department of Information, Film Division, 171–2, 175–7, 235 47, 56 social, 210–12, 217, 229 Department of Markets, 42 and technology, 56, 61–2, 84, 186–7, Department of Post-War Reconstruction, 49 189–90, 191, 193, 195 Department of the Interior Film Division, and television, 180–1, 241–2 60 Documentary Accords. See Accords Department of Veterans’ Affairs, 221 Documentary Australia Foundation, 215–20 Desert People, 66, 194 Documentary Fellowship scheme, 90, 134, Di Chiera, Franco, 123, 124 144, 145, 148, 165 Dialogue, 223 Documentary Innovation Fund, 130 digital stories, 222 documentary production, 231–2 digital television, 235 Australian Broadcasting Corporation Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), 162–4 (ABC), 169 Australian National Film Board, 49–52 Diplomat, The, 153 case studies, 100–2 directors and voice of documentaries, 16, 22 Cold War, 52 Disher, Norma, 53 commercial, 42–4, 77–8 distribution of ﬁlms. See also Ronin Films Commonwealth government, 41–2, 46–7 and Film Australia, 76, 156–7 communities of practitioners, 3 Dix, Alex, 87 early years, 33–44 Dix Review, 82, 86, 87 fundamental tendencies, 42 Djalambu, 193 future of, 241–4 Djigirr, Peter, 222 governments, 36–8, 41–2, 46–7 documentaries, 207 institutions, 4 animated, 204–6 off-shore, 201–2 and Australian Broadcasting Corporation political, 52–3 (ABC), 62–4, 65, 68–72, 74–5, 159, production slates, 99–100 161–2, 167–8, 170, 235 recent, 235–9 and Australian Film Commission (AFC), sponsored, 21 134–5, 144, 145 with sound, 44–7 and broadcasting regulation, 90 World War II, 47–9 and Channel 7, 72, 77, 78, 159, 170, 178, Douglas, Malcolm, 73 187, 235 Douglas-Henry, Jessica, 154 and Channel 9, 62, 72, 78, 159, 178, 187 Down the Darling, 73 and Channel 10, 72, 78, 159, 177–80, 187 Drive, 219

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Driver, Roy, 47 Hothouse scheme, 154 du Cane, Peter, 124, 126 in 1970s, 75–7 Duncan, Catherine, 50, 52, 65 independent filmmakers, 149–54 Duncan, Kath, 137 International Women’s Year, 26 Dunlop, Ian, 66, 191, 192, multimedia, 156 193–5, 225 National Interest Program (NIP), 147–9, 152–3 Edge of the Possible, The, 104–6 productions, 145–7, 148 Educational Production initiative, 157 websites, 156 Edwards, Coral, 199 Women’s Film Unit, 26, 81 Electric Pictures, 123, 125, 126 Film Australia Communications, 147 Elkin, A. P., 191 Film Division, 56 Emerman, Marsha, 217 Film Employment Scheme, 124 Emily’s Eyes, 154 film equipment, 186 Emu Ritual at Ruguri, 196 Film Finance Corporation (FFC), 4, 87, 93, Enhance TV, 214 109–11, 127–30, 158, 213 Enoch, Wesley, 24 and Accords, 95–7, 106, 117 Enterprise Program, 233–4 and budgets, 112 Escape from Singapore, 75 and documentaries, 112, 116–19 Eternity (exhibition), 28, 221 case studies, 119–27, 128–32 Eternity (film), 28, 100–2, 135, 165 Feature Film Fund, 113 ethnographic film conference, 198–200, 223 and genres, 112, 116, 127–31 ethnographic films, 38–9, 66, 189–201 international markets, 118 Ettinger-Epstein, Sascha, 217 National Indigenous Documentary Fund Experimental Cinema, 54 (NIDF), 129–30 Experimental Film and Television Fund and Non-Accords, 117–18 (EFTF), 73 philanthropy, 215–20 pre-sales, 91 Facing the Music, 152 Producer Revenue Entitlements Scheme, Fair Go: Winning the 1967 Referendum, The, 115 226 and project development, 114 Falzon, Albert, 73 and returns on investments, 112, 168 Familiar Places, 198 Film for Discussion, 80 Federation, 155, 156, 214 Film Victoria, 104 Feeney, Bob, 69 Filmnews, 79 Fighter’s Return, 52 Finch, Peter, 52, 191 film, 16mm, 65, 79, 84 Find My Family, 235 Film and Television Board, 74 Finlay, Paul, 142 Film Art Doco, 103–6 Fire Guardians, 46 Film Australia, 27, 74, 81, 87, 133, 145–7, First Australians: The Untold Story of Australia, 210 25, 130, 176, 201, 223, 226 and Australian Broadcasting Corporation First Australians, The, 201 (ABC), 148 First Contact, 82, 149 Australian Film Commission (AFC), 77 First Person, 128 Australian National Documentary Fisher, Humphrey, 74 Conference, 88 Fiske, Pat, 94, 173 case studies, 149–52 For All the World to See, 92–5 criticism of, 157 FitzSimons, Trish, 21, 29, 91 and distribution of films, 76, 156–7 Fitzwater, Bill, 71, 75 and documentaries, 152–4, 157–8 Five Australians, 71 Educational Production initiative, 157 Flaherty, Robert, 43 Gonski Review, 152 Flatman, David, 112–13 historical documentaries, 154–6 Fleming, Susan, 124

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Fletcher, Brendan, 219 Gow, Keith, 53, 67 For All the World to See, 92–5 Grace, Helen, 15 For Love or Money: A History of Women and Graham, Trevor, 21, 26, 154, 161, 175, 223, Work in Australia, 82, 86, 99 227 Forbidden Lies, 131 Greater Union Theatres Ltd, 45 Force: Behind the Line, The, 235 Green Tea and Cherry Ripe, 202 Four Corners, 63, 68, 162 Greenough, George, 73 four-walling exhibitions, 73 Grey Nomads, 22, 168 Fowler-Smith, Bremer, 137 Grey Voyagers, 22, 168 Fowler-Smith, Penny, 136–7, 137 Grierson, John, 5, 11, 34, 43, 47, 49, 52, 188, Fox Movietone sound recording units, 44 209 Frankland, Richard, 24, 138 Guerilla Docs, 141 Franklin Wild River, The, 183 Guiney, Melanie, 17–18 Fraser, Nick, 180 Gunther, John, 61 Fred Hollows Foundation, 95 Gurr, Tom, 47 Freedom Ride, 172 Gyngell, Bruce, 72 From Little Things Big Things Grow, 172 From Sand to Celluloid, 138, 139 Haddon, Alfred Cort, 23, 38, 189, 223 From the Tropics to the Snow, 66, 68 Half Life – a Parable for the Nuclear Age, 202 Frontier, 169 Hall, Ken G., 43, 45, 47, 53 Frontline, 82, 86 Hamlyn, Mark, 87, 91, 165–6 Fry, Henry, 190 Hand, Larry, 151 Fryer, Sally, 218 Hannam, Ken, 75 funding. Hannant, Brian, 75 Australian Film Commission (AFC), 119, Hardy, Doug, 63 134–5, 142–3 Harley, Ruth, 234, 238 case studies, 92–5, 103–6, 119–27, 128–32, Harold, 128 136–7, 138–40, 142–3 Harris, Richard, 186 See also Film Finance Corporation (FFC) Harris, Rolf, 72 Hartley, John, 97 Garner, Robert, 66 Hart-Williams, Nick, 88 Garrett, Peter, 233, 237 Harvie, Robert, 39 Gaumont British Instructional Films, Haslem, Denise, 94, 142 191 Hasluck, Sir Paul, 65 Gaumont Graphic, 40 Hatred, 142, 165 genre drift, 210–12 Hawes, Stanley, 50, 51, 55–7, 60, 75 Gibson, Courtney, 143 Hawkins, Gordon, 75 Gilmour, Dione, 204 Haydon, Tom, 70, 72, 75, 78, 81, 82, 232 Global Haywire, 131 Heath, George, 191 God’s Girls: Stories from an Australian Convent, Hegedus, Peter, 131 166 Heiman, Frank, 77, 82 Goldie, David, 163, 164, 169, 217, 221 Helena in Sydney, 67 Goldman, Mitzi, 91, 142–3 Henkel, Cathy, 28, 157 Gonski, David, 152 Henkel, Laura, 28 Good Woman of Bangkok, The, 91, 202 Hephzibah, 197 Goodbye Old Man, 198 Herd, Nick, 78, 80 Goori Goori Dreaming, 138 Here Is Paradise, 46 Goot, M., 229 Herle, Anita, 223 Gorgeous, 156 Herschell, Charles, 44 Gorton, John, 73 Herschell Films, 44 government documentary production, 36–8, Hertz, Carl, 34 41–2, 46–7 Hesp, Rosemary, 227 Gow, Ian, 177 Hewlett, Steve, 241

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Heyer, John, 50, 54–5, 55, 61 Inauguration of the Australian Commonwealth, Hidden Treasures, 221 The, 35, 36 Higgins, Ernest, 40 independent documentaries, 78–80, 103 High Noon In Jakarta, 197 and Australian Broadcasting Corporation High on a Cool Wave, 73 (ABC), 82, 86, 88 High Road, 61 and television, 85–107 Hill, David, 87, 166 Independent Documentary Association, 123 Hilton, Chris, 122, 124, 143, 186 independent documentary producers, 78 Hilton Cordell Productions, 122, 168 and Australian Broadcasting Corporation Hirst, John, 155 (ABC), 164–5 His Mother’s Voice, 205–6, 206 independent filmmakers historical documentaries, 154–6, 220–5 and Australian Broadcasting Corporation HMAS Sydney, 237 (ABC), 161 crew, 236 and Film Australia, 152–4 Hoass, Solrun, 202 independent producers Hocking, Jenny, 104 off-shore, 201–2 Hodson, Barrett, 110 and Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), Hollows, Fred, 92, 93–5 177 Hollywood Ten, Melbourne One, 103 India, 76 Holmes, Cecil, 53, 68, 192–3 Indigenous people Holmes, Jonathan, 87, 88, 91, 162, as documentary subjects, 23–5, 68–70, 163, 165 190–8, 225–9 Home of the Blizzard, 15, 43 as filmmakers, 16, 24, 172, 193, 198–200 Homelands, 172 and voice of documentaries, 23–5 Horizons, 63 Indonesia Calling: Joris Ivens in Australia, 52, Horne, Bob, 203 131 House-Opening, The, 198 Ingleton, Sally, 123, 126, 128, 202 Howes, Oliver, 75 Inside Stories, 122, 226 Huang Miaozi, 120, 121 Insomnia Film, 120 Huggett, David, 17 Isabellas, The, 128 Hughes, John, 24, 131, 135, 138, 155, 157, institutions and voice of documentaries, 174, 221, 240 25–7 Hughes, Robin, 146 international markets, 118 Hula Girls: Imagining Paradise, 21 Intervention: Katherine, NT, 130, 228, 228–9 Human Face, The, 81 Intervention: Stories from the Inside, 217 Human Face of China, The, 76 interviews, early, 45 Human Race, The, 124–5 Into Australia’s Unknown, 44 Hungry Miles, The, 53 Into the Never Never, 63 Hunt Angels, 46 Isaacs, Janet, 76 Hurley, Frank, 15, 40, 42–3, 45–6, 47, 48, 48 Isaksen, Gunnar, 63 Hurt, 218 Ive, Bert, 40, 41, 47 Hybrid Life, 143, 174 Ivens, Joris, 52, 53, 131 Ives, Donna, 16–20 I, the Aboriginal, 68 Ives, Shenoah, 18 ICAM, 172, 200 Ikin, Bridget, 115, 121, 122, 173 Jager, Claire, 139 Ilekshen, 201 Jandamarra’s War, 127 Immigrant Deer, The, 203 Janke, Terri, 224 Immigrant Story, 125 Jardiwarnpa, 172 Impact Series, 70 Jewel of the Pacific, 45 Imperial Relations Trust, 47 Joe Leahy’s Neighbours, 135, 149, 151 In the Grip of the Polar Pack Ice, 43 Johns, Brian, 166 In the Wild, 75 Johnson, Darlene, 129, 138

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Johnston, Lawrence, 101, 135 Like a Summer Storm, 75 Johnston, Owen, 133 Limelight Department (Salvation Army), Journey, The, 120, 122 35–6 Journey of a Nation, 50 Link-Up Diary, 198, 199 Journey to India, 75 Little, Jimmy, 69 Joys of the Women, 123 Living Black, 200 Jugarie, Jack, 125 Living Goddess, The, 82 Jungle Patrol, 47 Living on the Fringe, 70 Lloyd-James, Andy, 162, 172 Karp, Daryl, 154–7 Loaded, 101 Kathner, Rupert, 46 Lockwood, Douglas, 68 Kauffman, Ross, 220 Lonely Boy Richard, 227–8 Kelley, Mathew, 126 Long, Joan, 65, 74 Kelly, Francis Jupurrula, 200 Long Journey/Young Lives, 169 Kemira: Diary of a Strike, 82 Lord of the Bush, 165 Kids with Cameras, 219 Lorrkun, 193 Kilborn, Richard, 187 Lost Tribe, The, 43 Kildea, Gary, 202 Lotteries Commission (WA), 124 Kinetone, 46 Lousy Little Sixpence, 80 Kings School, The, 167 Lowenstein, Richard, 52 Kingsbury, Bob, 66, 67 Luck, Peter, 78, 171 Kirwin, Bert, 44 Lumière, Auguste, 33 Knot at Home, 219 Lumière, Louis, 33 Know Your Own Country, 42 Lumière Cinématographe, 33, 36, 37 Kokoda Front Line, 47 Krafzik, Ulrich, 124 Mabo, Koiki, 130, 223–4 Mabo: Life of an Island Man, 154, 223 Labor in Power, 164 Mabo: The Native Title Resolution, 156 Lamberti, Vincent, 217 MacDougall, David, 23, 189, 197–8, 199, 215 Lancashire Blenheim Design, 222 MacDougall, Judith, 197–8, 199 Land That Waited, The, 65 MacKinnon, Susan, 100–2, 118, 122, 143 Lander, Ned, 172, 173 Maidens, 80 Landmines: a Love Story, 202 Making History, 155 Landslides, 89, 91 Making Samson and Delilah, 130 Langton, Marcia, 24 Malpractice, 146 Lasky, Jesse, 43 Man Who Stole My Mother’s Face, The, 28 Last Tasmanian, The, 78, 82 Manara, Gian Carlo, 70 Laughren, Pat, 226 Maneﬁeld, Tom, 71, 75 Lawson, Sylvia, 23, 66, 67, 69 Mansﬁeld, Bob, 103 Leach, Jerry, 202 Manslaughter, 62 Leahy, Gillian, 15 Maplestone, Lyn, 46 Least Said Soonest Mended, 128, 129 March of Time, 53 Leavold, Andrew, 174 Mariotti, Barbara, 171, 172, 173 Legend of Damien Parer, The, 65 Martinez, David, 122 Leigh, Michael, 44 Maslin, Sue, 103, 104, 157, 240 Leisure, 77 Masterpiece, 97 Lenoy, Grace, 16 Masters, Chris, 162 ‘Let’s Face It’ (website), 28 Matthews, Bob, 52 Levy, Curtis, 75, 197 Maverick on a Mobile, 167 Levy, Jock, 53 Mawson, Douglas, 45 Lewis, Mark, 81, 135, 146 McCarthy, Frederick, 192, 195, 197 Leyland Brothers, 73 McCuaig, Nicole, 178 Lighthouse Keeper, The, 50 McGill, Chris, 77

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McKenzie, Brian, 240 My One-Legged Dream Lover, 137 McKenzie, Kim, 198 My Survival as an Aboriginal, 80 McMurchy, Megan, 68, 80, 86, 106, 134, 145, 148, 157, 201 Nash, Margot, 99 For All the World to See, 92–3 Nasht, Simon, 157 For Love or Money: A History of Women and National Film Board of Canada, 47, 49, 52, Work in Australia, 99 74 Medical Emergency, 187 National Indigenous Documentary Fund Meet the Press, 177 (NIDF), 25, 129–30, 138, 200–1 Melbourne Cup, the, 33, 45, 59 case studies, 149–52 Meldrum, Max, 68 National Interest Program (NIP) Memory, A, 16–20, 98 Film Australia, 147–9, 152–3 Men and Their Sheds, 102 National Library of Australia, 221 Menace, 52 National Museum of Australia, 28, 221 Menzies, Sir Robert, 64 Nature of Australia, 204 Message Stick, 200, 215, 217 Ned Wethered, 205 Microdocs, 137, 145 New Guinea documentaries, 201 Migrant Experience, The, 81, 154 New Guinea Patrol, 61 Mike and Stefani, 51–2 New Zealand Film Unit, 47 Millard, Kathryn, 131 newsreels, 39–40, 53 Mirimbiak Nations Aboriginal Corporation, on television, 62 24, 138 preservation of, 74 Missing Persons’ Unit, 187 and war, 47–9 Mizrahi, Uri, 140 with sound, 44–5 Moana, 43 Nicaragua No Pasaran, 201 Mobsby, Henry, 37 Nicholls, Peter, 71 Moir, Bruce, 76, 147, 149, 156 Nichols, Bill, 3–5, 5, 6, 13, 15, 16, 239 Molomby, Tom, 151 Nicholson, Arch, 76 Money Game, The, 75 Nimmo, Julie, 130, 228 Monitor Information Services, 156 Nine network. See Channel 9 Monkman, Noel, 46, 203 Ningla A-Na, 80, 139 Moore, John, 128, 222 No Milk No Honey, 124 Moore, Tony, 163, 166, 168 No Roses for Michael, 77 Moran, Albert, 27, 50, 61, 67 No Way to Forget, 139 Morgan, Alec, 80 Nobody’s Children, 163, 217 Morning of the Earth, 73 Non-Accords, 117–18, 168 Morris, Brian, 78 Noonan, Chris, 76, 78 Morris, John, 60, 67, 76, 110 Northern Safari, 73 Mortgage, 146 Now Just a Moment, 68 Moses, Sir Charles, 63 Nowlan, Cherie, 166 Mountford, Charles, 191 Noyce, Phil, 78 Mourning for Magatopi, 197 NSW Film and Television Ofﬁce, 101, 104, Movietone News, 45, 53, 74 154 Mr Neal is Entitled to be an Agitator, 104 Mr Prime Minister, 70 Oasis, The, 46, 170, 217–8 Munda Nyringu, 201 Oatley, Gwen, 54 Murphy, Mervyn, 54 Oehr, Jane, 76 Murrow, Ed, 62 Ofﬁce for Multicultural Affairs, 98 Museum Victoria, 222 off-shore documentary production, 201–2 Mutiny on the Western Front, 78 Ogilivie, Andrew, 21, 123–7 My America, 131 O’Hara, Marguerite, 218 My Life As I Live It, 201 Oliver, Chris, 101, 149 My Life Without Steve, 15 Oliver, Margot, 99

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Olympic Games, Melbourne, 59 ‘Planet Creature’ (website), 30, 32 On a Full Moon, 205 Plantinga, Carl, 6 On Sacred Ground, 81 Playing the Game, 126 One Man’s Road, 66, 67 political ﬁlmmaking, 52–3 One Man’s War, 52 Pomeranz, Hans, 69 One Way Street, 135 Poole, Mark, 238 Or Forever Hold Your Peace, 74 Portrait of an Australian, 65 O’Regan, Tom, 111 Ports of Destiny, 142 O’Rourke, Dennis, 78, 82, 91, 153, 201–2, Powell, Geoff, 63 239 Power, John, 75 Oshlack, Rochelle, 219 Power in the Paciﬁc, 165 Our Asian Neighbours, 76 Pozzan, Christina, 202 Our Century, 99, 140, 155, 156 pre-sales, 91–2, 96, 111, 116 Our World, 83 presenter-hosted series, 75 Out of Sight, Out of Mind, 163 President versus David Hicks, The, 197 Outback House, 185 Priestly, Matthew, 219 Overlanders, The, 54 Primitive People - the Australian Aborigines, 191 Overton, Julia, 118 private investment, 114. See also tax concessions Paddington Video Access Centre, 80 Producer Fellowship scheme, 144 Painting Country, 126 Producer Offset, 116, 233, 234, 239 Pankhurst, Helen, 130 Producer Revenue Entitlements Scheme, Papandrea, Franco, 237 115 Parer, Damien, 47, 48, 54 production slates, 82, 99–100 Parer, David, 203, 204 project development, 114 Parer-Cook, Elizabeth, 204 Project’64, 72 Parra, 143 Project’65, 72 Passionate Industry, The, 74 Protected, 80 Pathé Frères, 40, 41 Purvis, Bronwyn, 219 Pathé’s Animated Gazette (Australasia Edition), 40 Quantum, 203 Pathways & Protocols, 224–5 Queen in Australia, The, 52, 55–7 pay television, 160, 181 Queensland Amateur Photographic Society, Peach’s Australia, 75 37 Pearls and Savages, 43 Queensland Centenary of Federation, 21 Pearce, Michael, 75 Queensland Colonial Agricultural Pearlers, The, 50 Department, 36 Pearse, Reg, 51 quotas Pearson, Noel, 226, 227 commercial television, 102, 177, 178, 186, People of the Australian Western Desert, 66, 187, 235 193–5 Perkins, Charles, 227 Rabiger, Michael, 8, 155 Perkins, Rachel, 25, 129, 130, 138, 172, 201, Race Around the World, 167 223, 224 Radio-Active (ABC journal), 60 Perry, Joseph, 35–6 Randall, George, 38 Peters-Little, Frances, 225 Raoul Wallenberg: Between the Lines, 201 Petty, Bruce, 75, 77, 131 Rats in the Ranks, 149–52, 153 philanthropy, 215–20 Raymond, Robert, 62–4, 68, 72 Phillips, Danny, 31 Read, Tim, 134 Photo Wallahs, 199 Realist Film Association of Victoria, 52 Pictures That Moved, The, 60 Reality Blues, 168 Pike, Andrew, 82 reality televison, 184–7 Pizzey, Graham, 203 Recruits, 183

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Regan, Sally, 131 Sargent, Stefan, 66, 67, 72 Regnault, Félix-Louis, 189 SBS Independent (SBSi), 88, 121, 153 Renov, Michael, 42 and documentaries, 159, 172–5, 201 Renzo Piano: Piece by Piece, 122 School in a Mailbox, 50 Report from South Africa, 62 science documentaries, 202–4 Report from the Senate Select Committee on the Screen Australia, 232–4, 241 Encouragement of Australian Productions animation, 206 for Television (Vincent Report), 64, 65 and documentaries, 237–9 Requiem for a Generation of Lost Souls, 124 funding, 202 returns on investments, Film Finance genres, 7 Corporation (FFC), 112, 168 National Documentary Program, 238 Rewind, 154 and Screenrights, 214 Riddell, Elizabeth, 72 Special Documentary Program, 238 Ride a White Horse, 73 Screen Producers’ Association of Australia, Riding The Tiger, 197 157, 168 Rijavec, Frank, 124 Screenrights, 89, 131, 156, 213–14, 242 Roads to Xanadu, 156 ScreenWest, 124 Roberts, Jan, 201 Scrine, Gil, 82 Robin Eastwood Productions, 126 Scullin, James, 45 Rodwell, Telen, 219 Seeing Red and Feeling Blue, 76 Rofekamp, Jan, 117, 160 Selling of the Female Image, The, 80 Rolling Home, 73 Semmler, Clement, 69 Ronin Films, 95, 101, 105 Sen, Ivan, 200 Roscoe, Jane, 26, 175, 183, 238 Serious Undertakings, 15 Rosen, Brian, 115 Sestier, Marius, 33 Ross, Dasha, 105, 144 Seven Days, 72 Ross Smith’s Flight, 43 Seven network. See Channel 7 Rouch, Jean, 66, 191 Shark Callers of Kontu, The, 202 Rousset, Olivia, 167 Sharman, Jim, 166 Rowse, T., 229 Sharpley, Cecil, 53 Royal Anthropological Institute, 198 Sheer Bloody Murder - The Sandakan Story, 179 royalties, 213 Shell Educational Film Library, 54 See also Screenrights Shell Film Unit, 53, 54 RPA (Royal Prince Alfred Hospital), Shell’s Australia, 72 236 Shelper, Kath, 130 RSPCA Animal Rescue, 235 Shifting Shelter, 200 Rubbo, Mike, 105, 159, 166–7, 168 Shifting Shelter 2, 200 Ruckert, Paul, 203 Shifting Shelter 3, 200 Shirley, Graham, 47, 65 Safe House, The, 205 Shirley Abicair in Australia, 63 Safran, John, 167 Siege of the South, 45 Sailor, 67 Silk, George, 48 Sainsbury, Peter, 134 Silk and Steel, 123 Salon Lumière, Sydney, 34 Silly and Serious: William Robinson and Self Salter, David, 78 Portraits, 205 Salvation Army, 2 Simmons, David, 111 Australian Kinematographic Company, Sinclair, Billie, 120 35, 39 Sister If You Only Knew, 76 Limelight Department, 35–6 Size 10, 80 Salvation Army International Congress Small, Rhonda, 65 Cosmorama, 36 Smith, Arthur, 45 Samson and Delilah, 130 Smith, Dick, 149 Sandall, Roger, 195–7 Smith, Richard, 204

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Smithy: The Immortal Story of Sir Charles Sunbury 72, 73 Kingsford Smith, 53 Surf Patrol, 187, 235 Smokes and Lollies, 26 Surf Trek to Hawaii, 73 Snakes and Ladders: A Film about Women, Sutto, Leopold, 41 Education and History, 91, 142 Sutton, Peter, 198 social documentaries, 210–12, 217, 229 Sydney Filmmakers Co-operative, 78, Social Salvation, 36 84, 89 Soldiers of the Cross, 36 Sydney Unity Film Group, 15 Soldiers without Uniform, 47 Sydney Women’s Film Group, 80 Somebody Now, 163, 217 Sylvania Waters, 165, 184–5 Somewhere Between Light and Reﬂection, 102 Sympathy in Steel, 45 Sons of Namatjira, 197 Szoeke, Madge, 143 sound, arrival of, 44–7 South Australian Film Corporation, 26, 242 Tait, Paul, 17 South East Asian documentaries, 202 Talgai Skull, The, 70 South of the Border, 201 Take Notice, 15 Southward Ho! with Mawson, 45 Takeover, 198 Space Stories, 174 Tales from a Suitcase, 99 Spanish Earth, 52 Tapp, Peter, 214 Special Broadcasting Service (SBS). Target, Simon, 167 Aboriginal Television Unit, 25 Taringa 4068: Our Place and Time, 205 and Accords, 96, 117, 154 tax concessions, 82, 109–11, 113, 116 Australian Broadcasting Corporation and genres, 112 (ABC), 162 Taylor, Ken, 203 culture, 171 Taylor, L., 198 and documentaries, 171–2, 175–7, 235 Telescope, 72 and independent ﬁlmmakers, 177 television. and Indigenous production, 172 and documentaries, 180–1, 241–2 and Indigenous programs, 200–1 early years, 59–60 themed strands, 98–9 and independent documentaries, See also SBS Independent (SBSi) 85–107 Special Documentary Fund, 130 licences to broadcast, 160 Special Production Fund, 113 newsreels on, 62 Spencer, William Baldwin, 38, 189, 222–3 program slots, 97–8 sponsorship, 21 reality, 184–7 Steel Worker, The, 50 themed strands, 98–9 Stirring, 76 See also digital television Stocker, E. O., 190 Television Act, 57, 59, 221 Stockman’s Strategy, 198 Temple, John, 76 Stolen Generations, 129 Temple of Dreams, 131 Storyline Australia, 176 Tempus de Baristas, 199 Stout, A. K. (Alan), 50, 243 Ten Canoes, 222 Strachan, Carolyn, 80, 190 Tenth Dancer, The, 202 Straight from the Yudaman’s Mouth, 200 Thames Television, 78 Strehlow, T. G. H., 191 Thanks Girls and Goodbye, 104 Strikebound, 52 That’s Cricket, 45 Struggle to Win, 52 This Day Tonight, 68 study guides, 213, 214, 215 This Fabulous Century, 78 Sturma, Michael, 21 This is the ABC, 61 subjects (documentary) Thomas, Ray, 151 Indigenous people as, 23–5, 68–70, 190–8, Thomas, Steve, 128, 211 225–9 Thompson, John, 60, 65 and voice of documentaries, 22–3 Thoms, Albie, 78

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Thomson, Donald, 222 Uses of Television, The, 97 Thomson of Arnhem Land, 222 Utzon, Jørn, 104–6, 106 Thornley, Jenni, 80, 99, 135 Thornton, Warwick, 130 Verhoeven, Deb, 242 Three Boys Dreaming, 183 video technology, 79, 84, 89 Three to Go, 75 Vincent, Victor, 64. Through Australian Wilds: Across the Track of See also Report from the Senate Ross Smith, 44 voice of documentaries, 13–16, 20–3 Thunderheads, 204 and audiences, 27–9 Thurunga, 191 braided, 16, 29 Thwaites, Ernest, 39 case studies, 16–20, 29–32 Tiley, David, 135, 141, 145, 155 choric, 29 Timber Cutters, The, 50 dialogic, 29 Timewatch, 97 and directors, 16, 22 Timms, Peter, 221 Indigenous, 23–5 Tindale, Norman, 190 and institutions, 25–7 To Live with Herds, 197 poetic, 15 To the Other Shore, 135 and subjects, 22–3 Togo, Christine, 200 and technology, 15 Torque, 75 ventriloquic, 29 Torrens, Nick, 173, 177 and women, 26 Totally Gorgeous, 156 Totally Wild, 178 Waiting for Fidel, 166 Towards 2000, 203 Waiting for Harry, 198 Towards Baruya Manhood, 191 Walkabout, 63, 191 Town to be Drowned, A, 63 Walton, Storry, 75 Townsville Aboriginal and Islander Media Wanambi, Dundiwuy, 192 Association (TAIMA), 200 Wanambi, Richard, 227, 228 Trinca, Mathew, 221 Wansborough, Ian, 105 triple j tv, 169 War in the Air, 60 Trobriand Cricket, 202 Warlpiri Media Association, 200 True Stories, 97 Warwick Bioscopes, 36, 39 Tucker, Richard, 194 Waterloo, 80 Tuckfield, Christopher, 119–22 Waterside Workers Film Unit, 53 Tupicoff, Dennis, 205–6 Watson, Paul, 184–5 Two Laws, 24, 80, 190 Watt, Harry, 54 Two Men In a Tinnie, 183 Wawili Pitjas, 127 We Are No Longer Shadows, 223, 224 Ubar, 193 websites Ubu Films, 78 ABC Online, 169–70 Ucko, Peter, 197 accompanying, 30, 32 Under Southern Skies, 36 Film Australia, 156 Under Stress, 65 Weekend Magazine, 62 UNESCO Roundtable on Ethnological Weir, Peter, 75, 76 Filmmaking in the Pacific Area, Welsh, Deb, 18 66, 192 Wentworth, William, 191 UNESCO Seminar on Film and Television West, Alan, 155 in Australia, 72 Western Australia, 107 Unfinished Business, 173 documentaries from, 123–5 Unfolding Florence, 155 Westh, Steve, 126 Uni, 167 What Have They Done to My Country?, 77 Union Theatres, 45 Whatever Happened to Green Valley?, 76

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Wheeler, Geoff, 164 Wonderful World of Dogs, 135 Wheels Across the Wilderness, 73 Wood, Randall, 138 Wherrett, Peter, 75 Woolloomooloo – Redevelopment, 92 White, Jim, 70 Words from the City, 170 Whitmore, Lee, 205 Words of Freedom, 53 Who are We?, 171 World Around Us, 83 Who Do You Think You Are?, 176, 187 World at War, The, 78 Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler?, World of Nature, 203 156, 170 World War II, 47–9 Wild Australia, 203 World’s Strictest Parents, 235 Wildlife Australia, 203 Wrong Crowd, The, 169 Wilkin, Anthony, 38 Wrong Side of the Road, The, 86 William’s Weekly, 40 Williams, Clive, 66 Yabaduruwa, 193 Williams, Kim, 161 Yap … How Did You Know We’d Like TV?, 82, 201 Williams, Ron Maslyn, 48, 50, 51, 61 Yen, Anna, 143 Willis, Tom, 73 Yirrkala Film Project, The, 191 Wills, Fred C., 36–8 You Must Remember This, 100 Winds of Change, 125 Young, Colin, 66, 197 Winston, Brian, 43, 209, 212 Yu Feng, 120, 121 Wintonick, Peter, 61 Yumi Yet, 201 With Gentle Majesty, 71 Witzig, Paul, 73 Zoo, The, 235 Wolves of the Sea, 203 Zubrycki, Tom, 79, 82, 130, 131, 153, 157, Women’s Film Fund (WFF), 26, 27, 134, 143 165, 172