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B.A. Santamaria - Part 1

This two-part special looks at the fascinating and controversial career of B.A. (Bob) Santamaria - political activist, ardent anti-communist, committed anti-feminist and devout Catholic.
Series : Australian Biography Series 6 | Year : 1997 | Total Duration : 52 Minutes | Producer : Robin Hughes, Linda Kruger
Director : Robin Hughes, Linda Kruger |
Interview B A Santamaria, 1997, talking about how he questions who he is and how all his values depend on family and the land. Super. Still b&w photograph portrait Santamaria family, zoom to father. Interview Santamaria about his father who had a strong intellect despite having had very little education. Detail photo pan from seated father to BA (Bob) Santamaria and sister. Interview Santamaria about his father involving him and his sister in discussions on public and foreign matters without using his father authority.
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Access No. 132343 | 1 min 54 secs | Various | Australia | © B A Santamaria | Colour |
Archival b&w static image columns and archways (cloisters) at Melbourne University.
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Access No. 132344 | 3 secs | Unknown | Melbourne, VIC, Australia | © ABC Television | B&W |
Still b&w photograph B A Santamaria as young man, detail from family portrait. Interview B A Santamaria, 1997, talking about confidence and regard for his own opinions, belonging to a Catholic organisation.
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Access No. 132345 | 19 secs | Various | Australia | © B A Santamaria | Colour |
Archival b&w footage Melbourne University campus, students walking along broad tree-lined pathway, sandstone university building with clock tower. Interview B A Santamaria, 1997, talking about being a member of a Catholic organisation called the Campion Society made up of people with high IQs, encountering very formative people at university. Still b&w photograph CU face B A Santamaria as young man. Interview Santamaria about seeing Communism as something to be reprobated in the 1930s having come across Malcolm Muggeridge's book ÒWinter in MoscowÓ.
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Access No. 132346 | 1 min 41 secs | Various | Melbourne, VIC, Australia | © ABC Television | Colour |
Still b&w photograph B A Santamaria and writer Malcolm Muggeridge who is smoking. Interview B A Santamaria, 1997, talking about Muggeridge's book changing his life and realising that Communism was a problem.
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Access No. 132347 | 18 secs | Various | Australia | © B A Santamaria | Colour |
Archival b&w footage Spanish Civil War battlefield, VS artillery field guns being fired.
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Access No. 132348 | 5 secs | 1930s | Spain, Europe | © Film World | B&W |
Archival b&w footage Spanish Civil War, gun carriages being transported, civilians in rubble of destroyed buildings, pan up destroyed building.
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Access No. 132349 | 8 secs | 1930s | Spain, Europe | © ABC Television | B&W |
Archival b&w footage Spanish Civil War, distressed civilian women, 1930s. Interview B A Santamaria, 1997, talking about expressing his ideas and starting a paper called the Catholic Worker in 1936 which grew a large circulation, remembering the first issue.
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Access No. 132350 | 1 min 7 secs | 1930s | Spain, Europe; Australia | © Film World | Colour |
Front cover of first issue Catholic Worker paper, 1936 featuring article called ÒWhy We FightÓ. Interview B A Santamaria, 1997, talking about his views on economic rationalism which refer back to his editorial in first article in 1936 issue of Catholic Worker.
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Access No. 132351 | 29 secs | 1930s | Australia | © B A Santamaria | Colour |
Archival b&w footage religious procession led by Archbishop Mannix, Archbishop of Melbourne, 1930s,VS entourage and good shot of crowd, circular portrait shot Archbishop Mannix (scratchy footage). Interview B A Santamaria, 1997, talking about being recruited by Archbishop Mannix to activate a new Catholic movement in 1940. Archival b&w footage cathedral exterior showing detail of arched doorway and lights (windows). Interview Santamaria about telling his father about his appointment by Archbishop Mannix.
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Access No. 132352 | 1 min 3 secs | 1930s | Melbourne, VIC, Australia | © Film World | Colour |
Still b&w photograph Archbishop Mannix , pan to CU face. Interview B A Santamaria , 1997, talking about his thoughts of Archbishop Mannix being the greatest man he's ever met. B&W photo Santamaria as young man carrying briefcase as he walks with members of clergy. Interview Santamaria about taking Catholic movement into the country. B&W photo pullback large group of members of the National Catholic Rural Movement.
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Access No. 132353 | 54 secs | Various | Australia | © B A Santamaria | Colour |
Interview B A Santamaria, 1997, talking about the purpose of the National Catholic Rural Movement and its branches, promoting social justice. Still b&w photograph congregation in church, people with palms together. Detail photo MCU pan of people in congregation, including nun and priest.
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Access No. 132354 | 45 secs | Various | Australia | © B A Santamaria | Colour |
Still b&w photograph Trades Hall, Melbourne.
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Access No. 132355 | 4 secs | 1940s | Melbourne, VIC, Australia | © The University of Melbourne | B&W |
Still b&w photograph detail of Trades Hall sign on building, Melbourne. Interview B A Santamaria, 1997, talking about opposition to Communism through the trade unions through study of the constitution of the Communist Party.
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Access No. 132356 | 41 secs | Various | Melbourne, VIC, Australia | © B A Santamaria | Colour |
Archival b&w footage high WS religious procession outside St Patrick's Cathedral (church?), MS procession with girls in confirmation clothing, WS Archbishop Mannix walking with procession through crowd (onlookers), high shot massive crowd of schoolgirls as they stand simultaneously. Interview B A Santamaria, 1997, talking about consultation with parish priests and procedures for forming union member groups.
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Access No. 132357 | 1 min 2 secs | Various | Melbourne, VIC, Australia | © Film World | Colour |
Archival b&w footage, circa 1940s, car driving along street towards church spire, people in front of cathedral (church?), single woman walking past in F/G. Interview B A Santamaria, 1997, talking about story of conversation with a bank director about the differences between Catholicism and Communism.
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Access No. 132358 | 59 secs | 1940s | Melbourne, VIC, Australia | © ABC Television | Colour |
Archival b&w footage circa 1940s, crowd of people entering church building, long line of choirboys walking. Interview B A Santamaria, 1997, talking about value of Catholic foot soldiers and their understanding of Communism.
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Access No. 132359 | 57 secs | 1940s | Melbourne, VIC, Australia | © Film World | Colour |
Still b&w photograph portrait of Archbishop Mannix. Interview B A Santamaria, 1997, talking about his relationship with Archbishop Mannix.
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Access No. 132360 | 14 secs | Various | Australia | © B A Santamaria | Colour |
Archival b&w footage doors opening to reveal Archbishop Mannix's study (office).
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Access No. 132361 | 4 secs | 1940s | Australia | © Film World | B&W |
Archival b&w footage Archbishop Mannix seated at desk piled with books, MCU face. Interview B A Santamaria, 1997, talking about his relationship and conversations with Archbishop Mannix.
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Access No. 132362 | 24 secs | Various | Australia | © ABC Television | Colour |
Freeze frame from b&w archival footage Archbishop Mannix in profile. Interview B A Santamaria, 1997, talking about stories circulating about Dr Mannix. Archival b&w footage, 1950s, unionists at street rally, VS Communists raising fists, ALP meeting in hall 1955, arms raised in vote, Dr Evatt walking in street with colleagues, press photographer. Interview Santamaria about Labor Party split due to tensions between pro-Communist and anti-Communist groups and Evatt's decision-making as leader at the time. Archival b&w footage WS pan 1955 ALP federal conference, Hobart.
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Access No. 132363 | 2 mins 25 secs | Various | Australia | © Film World | Colour |
Interview B A Santamaria, 1997. Still b&w photograph B A Santamaria as younger man with hand in pocket, pan up to face. Interview Santamaria talking about federal party conference in 1955 being rigged, and subsequent setting up of the breakaway DLP party.
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Access No. 132364 | 32 secs | Various | Australia | © B A Santamaria | Colour |
Archival b&w footage DLP (Democratic Labor Party) advertisement, 1963, with anti-communism tack. Super. Interview B A Santamaria, 1997, talking about his thoughts at time of setting up breakaway Democratic Labor Party and opposition from Sydney's Bishop Carroll.
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Access No. 132365 | 1 min 32 secs | 1960s | Australia | © ABC Television | Colour |
Still b&w photograph pan across members of the Democratic Labor Party (DLP). Interview B A Santamaria, 1997, talking about never having been a member of the DLP, how he has voted over the years.
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Access No. 132366 | 1 min 5 secs | Various | Australia | © B A Santamaria | Colour |
B&W cartoon on political advertisement for Liberal & Country parties, 1960s , anti-Labor. Interview B A Santamaria, 1997, talking about not having sympathy for the Liberal Party voting group, Menzies' comments that the DLP was based on his own views. Archival b&w cartoon footage advertisement for Democratic Labor Party DLP), 1964. Super. Interview Santamaria about his relationship with Labor leader Arthur Calwell.
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Access No. 132367 | 1 min 6 secs | 1960s | Australia | © ABC Television | Colour |
Still b&w photograph Labor Party leader Arthur Calwell. Interview B A Santamaria, 1997 talking about rift between himself and Arthur Calwell. B&W photo Arthur Calwell. Interview Santamaria about dealing with animosity from Calwell and gaining reputation as the most hated man in the country. B&W portrait photo Santamaria with arm resting on desk. Interview Santamaria about his concerns for the intrinsic nature of the Labor Party while the coalition was in office for 20 years.
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Access No. 132368 | 3 mins 16 secs | Various | Australia | © B A Santamaria | Colour |
Archival b&w footage Australian Communist Party headquarters (central committee building), pan down to people milling outside building, Sun newspaper van passes through shot. Interview B A Santamaria, 1997, talking about it being better to respect your enemies rather than feel about them with emotion.
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Access No. 132369 | 29 secs | Various | Australia | © Film World | Colour |
Still b&w photograph MCU B A Santamaria speaking (giving speech). Interview B A Santamaria, 1997, talking about looking back on his involvements and being unable to pull out during events over time, and had he'd given up he would have felt as if he'd run away.
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Access No. 132370 | 1 min 31 secs | Various | Australia | © B A Santamaria | Colour |
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