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COUNTRY UPDATE |
AUSTRALIA |
BACK TO THE BEACH
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Ava Gardner and Gregory Peck in On the Beach shot in Melbourne 1959. Photo from the Collection during the weekend to buy over 40,000 non-Australian
records. Manager of
Collection, Graham Evans, said that the sale had in effect gone a long way to
clearing the decks of non-Australian recordings. "We have given
ourselves much more space, we have reduced a large storage bill and we will
now use the proceeds from the sale to fill in the gaps in our Australian
record collection." Graham says
that he was sad to see the records go. "It would be nice to collect all
the records in the world, but that is not feasible. As ScreenSound Australia,
we have to concentrate on the Australian collection, and there is a vast
number of Australian recordings we have to preserve and make available for
people to hear." Of course,
the Great Vinyl Sale is still not over. Public tender is being considered for
the remaining records. More valuable records will be auctioned over the
Internet late this year. For further information, contact Edith Ruth (612)
6248?2015); email: mailto:vinyl@screensound.gov.au Courtesy of News From the Archive Autumn 2000, ScreenSound Australia |
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When
ScreenSound Australia was making its popular video "Melbourne: Films of
the Fifties," our Melbourne office became aware of an amazing 16mm home
video shot at Canadian Bay, Victoria in 1959 during the production of On
the Beach, the Hollywood epic starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, and
Fred Astaire. The home movie was shot by amateur filmmaker Richard Goslin and
has fascinating behind-the-scenes footage of the film's production. It was
held by the Performing Arts Museum which kindly allowed it to be copied and
for an extract to be used in the video. As luck
would have it, Richard Groslin's son, Doug Brockfield, bought a copy of
"Melbourne: Films of the Fifties" not knowing what was in it, and
was amazed to see the footage and hear his father's voice. He found the
footage very moving having lost contact with his father for a long period of
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was presented with a VHS copy of the film. Since then
the home movie has developed a little of its own, largely due to the efforts
of Doug Brockfield. It has been used ext-ensively by the Melbourne
Inter-national Film Festival's Travelling Film Festival to publicize its
showing of On the Beach, and the story was picked up widely by the
Melbourne media. (The print of On the Beach came from the Screen-Sound
collection, along with other promotional materials. Screen-Sound is also
providing shorts and newsreels for the Travelling Film Festival at a number
of screenings in regional Victoria.) VINYL LIVES ON
ScreenSound's Great Vinyl Sale held in February proved a huge success.
More than 8,000 people (from all over Australia, and a few from overseas)
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PACIFIC ISLANDS |
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In May
2000, a series of two five day workshops on audiovisual archiving was conducted
with participants attending from the National Broadcasting Corporation of
PNG, PNG National Archives, Fiji Broadcasting Corporation, Fiji Ministry of
Information Film & TV Unit, Museum of Fiji, Pacific Islands Broadcasting
Association, and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community. Funded by the Hoso-Bunka
Foundation and the Asia Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development
(AIBD), the workshops were conducted by ScreenSound Australia staff member
Matthew Davies with support from AIBD program manager Joseph Marcel and
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management issues. Group workshop sessions were structured
to identify problems in the participant’s collections and to develop
strategies to improve the preservation and accessibility of those
collections. Digitization
of audio material to CD-R is seen as a major strategy for both NBC and FBC,
and the workshops focussed on costs, procedures, and advantages and risks
inherent in the digitization process. Controlled storage for maintenance of
magnetic video and audio tape is a clear priority for all participants, with
currently available storage conditions ranging from quite good to very poor
Fiji Ministry of Information Continued on page 10 |
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January-June
2000
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