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Part of Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia audiovisual records deposit
Part of Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia audiovisual records deposit
Part of Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia audiovisual records deposit
Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia
Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia audiovisual records deposit
Film reels (4), video reels (10), sound tape reels (3) received or produced by the Waterside Workers’ Federation and the MV Kanimbla Social Club
Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia
My Old Black Billy. Director: Keith Gow. Production Company: Peter Hamilton Productions
Part of Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia audiovisual records deposit
Originally commissioned by the Melbourne New Theatre the play is set in the aftermath of the 1890s shearing strike which saw the Shearer's Union almost destroyed, its leaders goaled and its membership dazed. The old ballad is sung while its story is enacted.
Part of Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia audiovisual records deposit
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.
Part of Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia audiovisual records deposit
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.
Part of Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia audiovisual records deposit
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.
Part of Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia audiovisual records deposit
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.
Part of Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia audiovisual records deposit
Jock Levy comically portrays four types of waterside workers - Glass-arm Harry, Tiddly Pete, Nick-away Ned and Ron the Roaster - with voice-over narration by Leonard Teale.
Part of Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia audiovisual records deposit
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.
Part of Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia audiovisual records deposit
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.
Ellis Blain's Guest No. 236 - Tony and Betty Ambetielos
Part of Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia audiovisual records deposit
Part of Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia audiovisual records deposit
Film version of the 1954 waterfront strike.
Ellis Blain's Guest No. 236 - Tony and Betty Ambetielos
Part of Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia audiovisual records deposit
Voice of the Countryside: Talk No. 50. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Radio National
Part of Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia audiovisual records deposit
B Wilkie interviewed by Joe Bailes regarding SS PJ Adams
Voice of the Countryside: Talk No. 50. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Radio National
Part of Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia audiovisual records deposit
B Wilkie interviewed by Joe Bailes regarding SS PJ Adams