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Thanks to SA buyers of films on Projection, also Birdsville Track 1954 RD.2009

Focus on Australian

Many Au classic films on DVD - ask!

Forty Year Anniversary

Breaker Morant
"Under what Regulation...?' "Regulation .303, sir" - film full of tension in dialog.
Bruce Beresford's emotionally masterful directing - AFI Awarded.
Massively talented cast, look them up yourself, Edward Woodward leading.
AFI AWARD BEST FILM 1980 + many more AFIs
Cinematography by Don McAlpine, AFI awarded
Clean, pristine copy from original release in 16mm (cans too). A back-shelf discovery,
looks never projected. Eastman SP has gone all-brown which quite suits the subject.
Not pink! Two full spools of 2200ft, Tuscan of course. WITH original one-sheet poster.
OFFERS over $100 please.

The Magic Illusion
"Ron Davis Bendigo Museum Pioneers Production dedicated to the Silent Moving

Picture and the Pioneering Equipment that made the Movies move!"

Truly a one-off compilation of Au clips incl tempestuous The Devil's Playground. Mostly
silent, some sound, all a bit weird too. 800ft bw on Cecol reel & can. VG condition. $80.

Henry Lawson story The Australian Cinematograph 1896 directly used as film script!
Where Dead Men Lie - the pair
In 1972 at Film Australia, just before leaving to become md of SA Film Corp, Gil
Brealey innovated with a main film and a film-about-the-film, one in colour, one in bw.
The second film in this set is Focus on the Director, who was Keith Gow, originally from
the Waterside Workers Film Unit. You get to watch a film director at work! Many leading
names of Au film in this powerful tale of a drover in drought. An innovation in film study!
Two films 16mm on Tuscan original 800s. Exc Cond tho colour now browny. $50.

A Trip through the Western Districts of Victoria
Farmer Sparrow from SA's Yorke Peninsula photographed well in Kodachrome c1950,
then added titles c1955, this being the camera-original 100ft rolls, silent d/spr 16mm.
Some chunky editing splices, on classic Au grey steel reel & can. Your Offer?

Melbourne-made alum spool 16mm 400' empty "W.A. Deutsher Pty Ltd" $20

Voyage of the Nautilus - Sir Hubert Wilkins of S Aust
Photographing in the Balkan War 1912, decorated twice in WW1, colleague of Frank
Hurley, exploring in wild Australia and the Antarctic, aviating and submarining in the
Arctic, pioneer of weather & spirituality. Simon Nasht film, narr Sam Neill. DVD ppd $20

David Donaldson, Adelaide filmart@dodo.com.au 08 8267 5069

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