- Bib ID:
- 3676025
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Bassett-Smith, Peter, 1911-2011, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2006
- 3 digital audio tapes (ca. 195 min.)
- Summary:
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This interview with the amateur cine-photographer Peter Bassett Smith describes his early years in Argentina and UK; his move with his mother to Melbourne, Vic. in 1921; his education at Grimwade House and Geelong Grammar; employment at a Melbourne timber firm; his acquisition of a cine camera in 1930; business activities as an importer; his World War II service in Greece, Syria and Australia; filmmaking in New Caledonia; an invitation to be the cine-photographer on the 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land, led by Charles Mountford; detailed description of the expedition which lasted from March to November 1948.
- Notes:
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- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (10 p.) and corrected transcript (typescript, 72 leaves)
- Subject:
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- Occupation:
- Cinematographers
- Other authors/contributors:
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- Copyright:
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- Until 2076 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
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- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2006
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