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1 online resource (streaming video file) (5 min.) ; 30270144 bytes |
| Summary |
Using just a tiny fraction of the vast and often forgotten heritage of 8mm home movies, this 13-part documentary series is a private record of Australia. Each five-minute episode uses the home movie footage of an individual or family to tell the small stories that fill in the gaps of our formal history. Colourful, intimate, detailed, and occasionally out of focus, Homemade History celebrates amateur filmmakers and their remarkable library of memories. Like the experience of watching your own home movies, the images are accompanied by a candid and intimate voice over commentary by the photographer or the subject. For example, Mary Wilkinson was editor of Australias first fashion magazine Flair. In her films we see bemused villagers watching as a jersey pant-suited, bewigged 70s model clambers up onto the wing of a cargo plane in the New Guinea highlands. Mary giggles, "Oh my I'm not sure we worried about insurance back then".Unlike your own home movies, the footage has been edited, but not always to remove the technical "flaws". Often the style and technique of filming is as revealing as the actual events filmed.Amateur photographers filmed the ordinary as well as the extraordinary. In Homemade History the every day takes on a new fascination.The Home Movies Of Mary Wilkinson: Mary Wilkinson was the editor of Flair, Australia's first homegrown fashion magazine. She took her 8mm movie camera on all her working trips. Her footage reveals the DIY beginning of the Australian Fashion industry from the 50s to the 70s. In her films we see a parade of juxtaposing imagery that only the fashion industry can generate |
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Broadcast 2013-07-24 at 10:30:00 |
| Notes |
Classification: NC |
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Amateur films.
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Manners and customs.
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Women -- Biography.
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Australia.
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Streaming video
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Herbert, Robert, director
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Wilkinson, Mary, contributor
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