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Interview with Bruce Petty, cartoonist and filmmaker [sound recording] / interviewer, Ann Turner
Bib ID 2827079
Format AudioAudio
Author
Petty, Bruce, 1929-
 
Access Conditions Access open for research; written permission required for personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee. 
Description 1996. 
3 digital audio tapes (ca. 270 min.) 
Summary

Petty speaks of his family background and his childhood in Doncaster in Melbourne, home influences particularly religion, his education including football, how he later worked in the family orchard, his invovlement in animation and commercial art studio, how he did book decoration for Colourgravure, how he eventually undertook RMIT night art classes, his time in London which included the influences which shaped his cartooning, commercial art, working for Punch, theatre design and his political interests, how he travelled in Europe, his time in New York freelancing for the Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, and New Yorker, his return to Australia and his post at the Sydney Mirror, later the Australian and the Age, his choice of themes, his interest in economics and politics, his work patterns, his involvement in animation particularly films such as Australian History, Money Game and Leisure, his publications include his cartoon collection, The Sixties, the role of cartoons and satire in society.

Notes

Preservation and user cassette copies made.

Accompanying material includes: interviewer's questions plus 2 cartoons discussed in the interview.

Recorded on Sept. 16 & Oct. 14, 1996 in Sydney, NSW.

Index/Finding Aid Note Uncorrected transcript (typescript, 60 leaves) 
Subjects Petty, Bruce, - 1929- - Interviews.  |  Cartoonists - Australia - Interviews.  |  Motion picture directors and producers.  |  Australia - Politics and government - Humor.
Occupation Film producers and directors.  |  Cartoonists.
Other Authors Turner, Ann, 1932-
Details Collect From
ORAL TRC 3521 Petherick Reading Room (Oral History)
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ORAL TRC 3521
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Petherick Reading Room (Oral History)
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ORAL TRC 3521 (transcript)
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Petherick Reading Room (Oral History)
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