Maslyn Williams map collection
- Bib ID:
- 917881
- Format:
- Map
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Related Online Resources:
- Finding aid at National Library of Australia
- Access Conditions:
- Available for reference. Not for loan.
- Scale:
- Scales differ.
- Description:
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- [1935-1962]
- 12 maps : some colour ; some diazo prints ; sheets 101 x 155.3 cms or smaller
- Series:
- Maslyn Williams map collection.
- Biography/History:
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Journalist, filmmaker and writer. Robert Ronald Maslyn (Ron Maslyn) Williams was born in England in 1911. In the 1920s, he moved to Australia where he grew up in the New England and Southern Highlands districts of New South Wales. He studied at the Conservatorium of Music in Sydney and worked as a journalist prior to a career in filmmaking. In 1940, he joined the Official War Film and Photographic Unit as a writer-producer and served under Frank Hurley in the Middle East. He transferred to the Australian Information Bureau in New York in 1945 and then to the Canadian Film Board in 1946.
Williams made films in Europe and Australia gaining several awards including a gold medal at the Venice Bienalle. His documentary work included ethnographic films made in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. In 1962, he ceased filmmaking and turned to writing. He became the author of books on Indonesia, the Philippines, Cambodia and China and also published a history of the phosphate industry, and four novels. Williams' autobiography, His mother's country (1988), won the Fellowship of Australian Writers Christina Stead Award in 1988 and the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction, 1989. Williams died in Bowral, New South Wales, in 1999. Further biographical information at https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617070
- Notes:
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- Collection of maps, mainly diazo prints, showing location of massacres, administration districts, patrol districts, oil drilling and missions. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.
- These maps relate to research work associated with Maslyn Williams' film work in New Guinea and in particular Map number 10 (North West patrol. Map to illustrate Patrol Report No 2 of 1955/56) concerns the making of the film New Guinea Patrol that was released in 1958. This Australian government sponsored film, produced by Williams and directed by Peter Dimond, followed the 70-day patrol led by James Sinclair, with Albert Speer as medical officer, into the 'inhospitable mountains' north-west of the newly established Tari Station. It was screened widely in the USA and won the Senate Gold medal at the Festival de Popoli film festival in Florence, Italy, in 1960.
- Title supplied by cataloguer.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-743669186
- Related Material:
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- Related material: Papers of Maslyn Williams, 1850-1995; Located at; National Library of Australia Manuscript Section, MS 3936 and MS Acc00.034.
- Related material: Ronald Maslyn Williams interviewed by Hazel de Berg for the Hazel de Berg collection; Located at; National Library of Australia in the Oral History Section, ORAL TRC 1/272-273
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
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- Finding aid available in Special Collections Reading Room and online.
- Finding Aid reference no.: MFC 35.
- Subject:
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- Missions -- Papua New Guinea -- Maps
- Oil fields -- Papua New Guinea -- Maps
- Massacres -- Papua New Guinea -- Maps
- Petroleum -- Prospecting -- Papua New Guinea -- Maps
- Lutheran Church -- Missions -- Papua New Guinea -- Maps
- Catholic Church -- Missions -- Papua New Guinea -- Maps
- Papua New Guinea -- Administrative and political divisions -- Maps
- Papua New Guinea -- Maps
- Gazelle Peninsula (Papua New Guinea) -- Maps
- Rabaul (Papua New Guinea) -- Maps
- Eastern Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea) -- Maps
- Kairuku (Papua New Guinea) -- Maps
- Kerema Bay Region (Papua New Guinea) -- Maps
- Papua, Gulf of (Papua New Guinea) -- Maps
- Tari (Papua New Guinea) -- Maps
- Time Coverage:
- 1935-1962
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2032 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Artistic
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1962
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