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Click Go the Shears. Filmed and produced by Jock Levy, Keith Gow, Norma Disher. Waterside Workers Federation Film Unit

The second and last in the Link "Land of Australia" series, this film was produced with the technique of static colour drawings and celluloid moveable frames. The artists were Harry Reade and Clem Millward. The song is sung by Cedric McLaughlin and the Link Singers.

Pensions for Veterans. Filmed and produced by Jock Levy, Keith Gow, Norma Disher. Waterside Workers Federation Film Unit

The first film produced by the WWF's Film Unit as part of the union's campaign to achieve pensions for its older members. It depicts the hardships that many of the workers have had to face and highlights some of the health and safety concerns raised in a 1945 report on waterside workers' employment conditions. Included is a sequence about a trip to Canberra to lobby Federal Parliament about the poor health of waterside veterans. The film uses an orchestral score and contains voice-over narration by Jock Levy, one of the filmmakers.

Wharfies: a history of the Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia from its formation in 1902. Produced and directed by Elizabeth Knight, written by Elizabeth Knight and Keith Gow. Oceania Media Network, Sydney

Wherever possible archival footage has been used going back to the trenches of the first world war and the General Strike of 1917. Later footage is drawn from documentaries made in the 1950s by the Waterside Workers' Federation Film Unit. Included, also, are interviews with wharfies recalling experiences of waterside work, life, and the politics of the Waterside Workers' Federation.

The Hungry Mile. Filmed and produced by Jock Levy, Keith Gow, Norma Disher. Waterside Workers Federation Film Unit

Documents industrial relations on the waterfront since the 1930s and includes dramatised scenes of working conditions during the Depression; recounts the background to the Federal Governments 1954 amendments to the Stevedoring Industry Act, which proposed to give shipowners the right to directly recruit wharf labour and bypass the union; shows workers demonstrating; contrasts the gap between industry and workers in the division of profits; portrays the solidarity amongst waterside workers. Voice-over narration by Leonard Teale.

Not only the need. Filmed and produced by Jock Levy, Keith Gow, Norma Disher. Waterside Workers Federation Film Unit

A sponsored film made for the Australian Council of Trade Unions proposes a Commonwealth solution to the housing problems facing families living in inner-city slums. Contrasts crowded and dilapidated city tenements with better homes in the suburbs, illustrates the financial considerations of families deciding to build a home and features highlights from the 1957 NSW People’s Housing Conference. Narration, spoken by Leonard Teale, lists reasons why proper housing is not affordable: lack of finance, insufficient loans for home building, high interest rates and too few rental dwellings being built. Members of building and other trade unions gather at the headquarters of the ACTU for a national conference held to determine a new housing policy and program to address the housing crisis.

WWF Film News No. 1. Filmed and produced by Jock Levy, Keith Gow, Norma Disher. Waterside Workers Federation Film Unit

The WWF Film Unit went out, in a Kombi van, from the Sydney Branch to the suburbs, to Newcastle, Wollongong and Port Kembla, and then down to the Melbourne Branch filming for a newsreel on the Margins Dispute, a strike which ran from 23 January to 14 February 1956. The newsreel was screened from early that year.

The Australian National University

Documentary produced by the Australian Commonwealth Film Unit surveys the teaching and research facilities at the University including microbiology, botany, geophysics, English, law, archaeology, Indonesian literature, zoology, demography, astronomy and political science.