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Nancy Cato

Award-winning author Nancy Cato wrote everything from poetry to children's books but she is best known for her historical novels including All the Rivers Run.
Series : Australian Biography Series 2 | Year : 1993 | Total Duration : 26 Minutes | Producer : Frank Heimans
Director : Frank Heimans |
Slow pull back from Nancy Cato rowing boat on lake at sunset, pelican landing on water in golden sunset light, MS Nancy in straw hat rowing, MWS Nancy rowing boat silhouetted on golden water, boat moves out of frame. Interview Nancy Cato talking about feeling it was her fate to write.
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Access No. 135235 | 46 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still b&w portrait photograph, 1991-2, CU Nancy Cato in straw hat, super. Dissolve. Pan down from shelves of antique books to photograph propped up against books of Nancy Cato as young child in bonnet, 1919. Interview Nancy Cato talking about her childhood, her father being a business manager in Adelaide. B&W photo, 1918, Nancy's brother Max. Interview Nancy saying she would have liked to have had a sister. B&W photo Nancy, 1920, aged three with ribbon in hair. Dissolve.
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Access No. 135236 | 49 secs | 1990s, 1910s, | Australia | © Nancy Cato | Colour |
Still b&w portrait photograph, 1903, Nancy Cato's father Ray Cato, b&w photo, possibly Nancy's grandmother Rosetta Cato with Nancy's father. Interview Nancy Cato talking about her family originating in Tasmania. B&W photo, b&w photo Nancy's grandmother Rosetta Cato. Interview Nancy about loving books as a girl but being disappointed when her grandmother sent her religious books.
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Access No. 135237 | 34 secs | 1900s, 1990s, | Australia | © Nancy Cato | Colour |
Zoom in on b&w photograph in oval frame on stand, Nancy Cato's mother Mabel Pearce as young woman, 1910s. Interview Nancy Cato talking about her mother telling her she loved her children but didn't kiss them alot. B&W portrait photo, 1900s, Nancy's mother Mabel in standing pose wearing floral dress. Interview Nancy about her close relationship with her father, having whooping cough when she was young and then nearly dying of pneumonia, her father bringing her little presents every day while she was recovering, her mother nursing her.
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Access No. 135239 | 1 min 50 secs | 1910s, 1990s, | Australia | © Nancy Cato | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1923, Nancy Cato as young girl with her older brother Max. Interview Nancy Cato talking about her brother Max being seven years older, teasing her. B&W photo, 1924, Max as choir boy. Interview Nancy about her brother and father having terrible quarrels, saying her prayers and asking God to take Max if one of her family had to be taken, feeling dreadful guilt when Max did die when he was nineteen. B&W circular photo, 1929, Max Cato aged nineteen and friend, detail photo CU Max. Interview Nancy about Max being unemployed when he died.
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Access No. 135240 | 2 mins 55 secs | 1910s, 1990s, | Australia | © Nancy Cato | Colour |
Archival b&w footage, super: Adelaide 1935, high angle view Adelaide park and street with buildings in B/G. Interview Nancy Cato talking about first work as a journalist, writing for personals, interviewing people arriving in Adelaide on the Melbourne Express, including musician Percy Granger who complained about discomfort of train.
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Access No. 135241 | 35 secs | 1940s, 1990s, | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, circa 1930s, Billy Hughes in hat. Interview Nancy Cato talking about Billy Hughes commenting on her writing with left hand.
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Access No. 135242 | 21 secs | 1930s, 1990s, | Australia | © John Fairfax Publications | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1940s, Nancy Cato and husband Eldred Norman. Interview Nancy Cato talking about meeting Eldred when she was twenty, resisting marriage for four years. B&W photo, 1940s, Eldred writing at table with fireplace in B/G. Interview Nancy about marriage. B&W photo, 1943, Nancy on wedding day holding bouquet of roses. Interview Nancy about having children and feeling she then belonged with Eldred who was an amusing and eccentric person.
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Access No. 135278 | 1 min 33 secs | 1940s, 1990s, | Australia | © Nancy Cato | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1944, Nancy Cato's husband, Eldred Norman. Interview Nancy Cato talking about husband Eldred's mechanical inventions. B&W photo, 1950s, Nancy and Eldred by telescope. Interview Nancy about Eldred's observatory and telescope. B&W photo, 1950s, Eldred's observatory. Interview Nancy about her first home with Eldred, her mother-in-law finding dirty dishes hidden under bed.
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Access No. 135279 | 2 mins 56 secs | 1950s, 1990s, | Australia | © Nancy Cato | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1943, Nancy Cato holding baby Bronwyn. Interview Nancy Cato talking about having children causing an upheaval. B&W photo, 1944, Nancy and Eldred with young daughter Bronwyn on lawn. Interview Nancy about having three children. B&W photo, 1949, Nancy with her three children on lawn. Interview Nancy about writing while Eldred looked after the children.
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Access No. 135280 | 59 secs | 1940s, 1990s, | Australia | © Nancy Cato | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1950s, Nancy Cato sitting at desk in observatory. Interview Nancy Cato talking about writing her first novel in husband Eldred's observatory. B&W photo, 1945, Nancy sitting on bank of Murray River. Interview Nancy about her first book ÒThe Earth RemainethÓ being sent back by all the Australian publishers, taking it to London to a literary agent.
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Access No. 135281 | 1 min 9 secs | 1950s, 1990s, | Australia | © Nancy Cato | Colour |
Still b&w portrait photograph, 1951, journalist Florence James.
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Access No. 135282 | 5 secs | 1950s, 1990s, | England, UK | © John Fairfax Publications | Colour |
Interview Nancy Cato talking about Florence James reading and criticising her first novel ÒThe Earth RemainethÓ, tossing the book from London's Tower Bridge into the River Thames. Still freeze frame Tower Bridge, London, 1950s. Interview Nancy saying she felt relieved.
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Access No. 135283 | 1 min 8 secs | 1950s, 1990s, | Australia; London, England, UK | © NFSA | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1956, Nancy Cato seated on sofa looking to camera. Interview Nancy Cato talking about starting another book. B&W photograph, 1956, Nancy wearing long pearl necklace. Interview Nancy about writing ÒAll the Rivers RunÓ. Pull back from front cover of ÒAll the Rivers RunÓ. Dissolve.
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Access No. 135284 | 40 secs | 1950s, 1990s, | Australia | © Nancy Cato | Colour |
Various excerpts from ÒAll the Rivers RunÓ 1983 television series, super. Pan from deck of riverboat to female character (played by Sigrid Thornton) painting on river bank, scene with characters played by Sigrid Thornton and John Waters on riverboat as paddleboats have a race on Murray River.
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Access No. 135285 | 1 min 17 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Crawfords Australia | Colour |
Interview Nancy Cato talking about being interested in generations and time being an obsession along with the sea, trees and the river.
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Access No. 135286 | 15 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Excerpts from ÒAll the Rivers RunÓ 1983 television series, characters played by Sigrid Thornton and John Waters on riverboat, character played by Sigrid Thornton walking with bunch of flowers to moored riverboat.
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Access No. 135287 | 8 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Crawfords Australia | Colour |
Interview Nancy Cato talking about being interested in history and enjoying research. MS Nancy walking in forest, past camera wearing straw hat with pink bandanna. Interview Nancy about suffering from asthma which got much worse after the death of her mother.
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Access No. 135289 | 1 min 5 secs | 1990s | Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1940, Nancy Cato's mother Mabel. Interview Nancy Cato talking about her mother going into a private hospital and not wanting people to see her, her mother dying after moving to another hospital.
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Access No. 135292 | 1 min 23 secs | 1940s, 1990s, | Australia | © Nancy Cato | Colour |
Still b&w photograph Nancy Cato looking down in profile.
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Access No. 135323 | 5 secs | Unknown | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Interview Nancy Cato talking about her mother's death in a nursing home and unbalanced nurse being charged with poisoning elderly people. Still b&w photograph, 1970s, Nancy Cato sitting by large briefcase, reflection in mirror. Interview Nancy about death influencing her writing, reciting part of poem about immortality.
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Access No. 135324 | 1 min 7 secs | 1990s, 1970s, | Australia | © John Fairfax Publications | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1978, Nancy Cato with fingers interlaced, looking to camera. Interview Nancy Cato talking about having extrasensory thoughts, feeling the nursing home matron believed something was wrong when her mother died.
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Access No. 135325 | 23 secs | 1970s, 1990s, | Australia | © News Ltd | Colour |
Still b&w photograph Nancy Cato in profile.
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Access No. 135327 | 6 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Interview Nancy Cato talking about having extrasensory brain, giving example of smelling decay in cemetery at age of twelve, believing this was sensing her mother's body being exhumed in 1959, commenting that everybody has extrasensory ability but not all develop it, keeping a dream book and often dreaming about something just days before it actually happens.
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Access No. 135328 | 2 mins 10 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1992, Nancy Cato sitting by computer. Interview Nancy Cato talking about believing humans have a kind of electric force that takes a while to fade away after death. B&W photo CU Nancy looking to camera. Interview Nancy about experience after husband Eldred's death when a box of papers fell out of cupboard and she found his glasses, believing this to be the last manifestation of his electricity. Freeze frame.
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Access No. 135330 | 1 min 47 secs | 1990s, 1980s, | Australia | © Nancy Cato | Colour |
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