Expo unit reshapes Australian film culture in Sydney
A Sydney based Commonwealth Film Unit preview reveals a shift from formal public affairs cinema to experimental works portraying real life. Leaders like Denys Brown and Dick Mason push creative projects while expanding output and funding, as sponsors decline.
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Uatua
Oxford
Hawes
Denys Brown
Areer
Rhodesia
England
Central African Federation
Mr Kingsland
Stanley Hawes
Brown
If Guys
Don Murrays
Dick Mason
CFA
NIB
Jan Hamilton
National Film Board
Kingsland
CFU
Messrs Brown
Mason Et al
CHU
Ct i
Mr Mason
Mason
Nixon on Saturday Football Amid Oval Office chatter
A fragmented account blends President Nixon's Saturday football ritual with a chaotic Oval Office scene. Officials discuss Sir James Prunsoll and the Australian ambassador as a Super Bowl backdrop distracts the president. Plimsoll and Kowalsky appear amid sports and foreign affairs banter.
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Nixon
Oval Office
Life Magazine
Plimsoll
Joe Alsop
James Reston
C. L. Sulaburger
William B. Buckley
Kansas City Chiefs
Spiro
James
President
Sir James
Hank Stram
Hank
Kawalsky
Slim Plim
Pat
Fossil Reef Under Yass Town Threatened by Hobbyists
The Devonian coral reef beneath Yass township suffers from constant chipping and hacking by amateur geologists and rock fossickers. Thousands of fossil specimens, dating about 500 million years, are at risk. many were studied by A. J. Shearsby, a pioneer geologist. It is believed to be the world's only coral reef running under a town.
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Ikt
Don Murray
National Film Board
Cook
George Johnston
Eton Road
Johnston
Cyril Branley
CFU
Asia
Mervyn Lightfoot
Australia
Mervyn
Sydney Harbour
Jack Rovers
CFA
David Bairstow
National Film Board of Canada
Ausalia
Chris McCuilloch
Joan Lang
Australian Writers’ Guild
Nother
Sydney
Randwick Council
Immigration — Department
Easy Rider
Dylan
Wante Garde
Denys Brown
Mds
Public Service
Kingsland
Elon Road
Treasury
Public Service Board
Yass
Yass District
A. J. Shearsby
Shearsby
Derrengullen Creek
Hattons Corner
John Garretty
The
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Barossa
Canberra-Hobart
Osaka
Commonwealth Film Unit
Eton
Lindfield
Teachers’ Training College
Department of the Interior
News and Information Bureau
Ick Kingsland
Gorton
Kit Guy
Inller
London
Midlands
Canada
General Motors
Usthene Sutton
Seston
Manenia Theatret
By Bruce Juddery
Alan Fitzgerald
SOIR
Kowalsky
Middle America
Sandshoes
Plimsall
Kowalesky
James Prunsoll
South-east Asia
Vietnam
America
Aranda
Aranule
Anda
Joan Lynravn
Derrengollen Creek
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