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Frank Hardy

Frank Hardy, author of Power Without Glory, is one of Australia's best known writers.
Series : Australian Biography Series 2 | Year : 1993 | Total Duration : 27 Minutes | Producer : Frank Heimans
Director : Frank Heimans |
Interview Frank Hardy talking about Australia being a more compassionate and tolerant society. Still b&w photograph, 1950, Frank Hardy holding paper as he delivers lecture. Interview Frank about not admiring humility.
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Access No. 134981 | 14 secs | 1990s, 1950s, | Australia | © Unknown | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1950s, Frank Hardy holding up three fingers. Interview Frank Hardy talking about being bad tempered.
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Access No. 134987 | 9 secs | 1950s, 1990s, | Australia | © Unknown | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1969, CU Frank Hardy on telephone. Interview Frank Hardy talking about having enemies.
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Access No. 134989 | 10 secs | 1960s, 1990s, | Australia | © Herald & Weekly Times | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1980s, Frank Hardy holding mug pint glass of beer, freeze frame with super: Frank Hardy, Born 1917, Author. Interview Frank Hardy talking about being born in Southern Cross, Victoria.
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Access No. 134990 | 37 secs | 1980s, 1990s, | Australia | © John Fairfax Publications | Colour |
Still b&w portrait photograph Frank Hardy's father Tom Hardy. Interview Frank Hardy talking about the Depression hitting in the late 1920s when his family moved to Bacchus Marsh and his memories of family poverty.
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Access No. 134994 | 50 secs | 1900s, 1990s, | Australia | © Frank Hardy | Colour |
Still b&w detail of photograph, circa 1934, Frank Hardy in cricket team. Interview Frank Hardy talking about moving on during the Depression years looking for work
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Access No. 134995 | 17 secs | 1930s, 1990s, | Australia | © Unknown | Colour |
Archival b&w footage, 1935, man shovelling irrigation trench in orchard, fruit-pickers working in orchard, men loading crates onto flatbed truck.
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Access No. 134996 | 10 secs | 1930s | Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Still b&w sepia photograph, 1930s, Communist Party rally, pan across large crowd of men to milk truck. Interview Frank Hardy talking about reasons for joining the Communist Party in 1939. Still b&w photograph Tribune newspaper being held up high at Communist rally. Interview Frank about joining Communist Party being illegal.
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Access No. 135004 | 47 secs | 1930s | Australia | © John Fairfax Publications | Colour |
Still b&w cartoon, 1940s, showing Mussolini and Hitler giving Nazi salute to goose-stepping politicians, detail cartoon showing an anti capitalist placard. Interview Frank Hardy talking about working at the Radio Times as well as the Communist paper, meeting his wife at Cavalcade Radio.
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Access No. 135006 | 39 secs | 1940s, 1990s, | Australia | © Unknown | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1940s, Frank Hardy in army uniform. Interview Frank Hardy talking about being transferred to Northern Territory during WWII.
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Access No. 135010 | 7 secs | 1940s, 1990s, | Australia | © Frank Hardy | Colour |
Archival b&w footage, 1942, Australian soldiers in training exercise with bayonets, Darwin. Interview Frank Hardy talking about being based in Northern Territory for two years during WWII and starting a Communist newspaper called the Troppo Tribune.
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Access No. 135013 | 26 secs | 1940s, 1990s, | Australia | © Film World | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1944, shirtless Frank Hardy and army mate. Interview Frank Hardy talking about meeting writer Frank Ryland who suggested he write a book, deciding to write a short story, his trip to the Northern Territory turning him into a writer.
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Access No. 135014 | 1 min 3 secs | 1940s, 1990s, | Australia | © Frank Hardy | Colour |
Archival b&w footage woman and children in street in poor area, MS woman in food queue taking tin can, pile of loaves of bread and food queue, woman with child given food, WS factory. Interview Frank Hardy talking about his writing being fluent, showing his first short story, ÒA Stranger in the CampÓ, to Frank Ryland who said it was brilliant and entered it for the School of Modern Writers competition which it won.
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Access No. 135015 | 1 min 27 secs | 1940s, 1990s, | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1950-51 Frank Hardy sitting at typewriter. Interview Frank Hardy talking about John Wren.
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Access No. 135116 | 11 secs | 1950s, 1990s, | Australia | © The West Australian | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1940s, John Wren in hat. Interview Frank Hardy talking about John Wren becoming a millionaire, committing crimes along the way. B&W photo, 1950, John Wren in pinstriped suit and hat. Interview Frank about his book ÒPower Without GloryÓ choosing him, being obsessive about writing it.
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Access No. 135118 | 44 secs | 1940s, 1990s, | Australia | © John Fairfax Publications | Colour |
Scene from 1976 television drama series ÒPower Without GloryÓ with character John West bribing policeman. Interview John Hardy talking about through his book West becoming real rather than Wren, literature being truer than life.
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Access No. 135125 | 26 secs | 1970s, 1990s, | Australia | © ABC Television | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1950s, Frank Hardy writing at desk. Interview Frank Hardy talking about receiving a phone call from an Alan Hall who had information about John Wren's wife having an affair with his bricklayer brother-in-law.
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Access No. 135131 | 1 min 13 secs | 1950s, 1990s, | Australia | © Unknown | Colour |
Scene from 1976 television drama series ÒPower Without GloryÓ with character John West confronting his wife in the bedroom about having an affair. Interview Frank Hardy talking about being arrested.
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Access No. 135135 | 50 secs | 1970s, 1990s, | Australia | © ABC Television | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1950s, Frank Hardy, possibly on day of arrest. Interview Frank Hardy talking about his arrest on charge of criminal libel.
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Access No. 135139 | 44 secs | 1950s, 1990s, | Australia | © Unknown | Colour |
Archival newsreel footage from 1952 ÒMenaceÓ, VS Josef Stalin and Russian troops in Red Square, super: Australian National Information Bureau Newsreel, 1952Ó, scores of tanks moving through Red Square, European men protesting, Australian men pushing and shoving at Communist rally with police present.
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Access No. 135145 | 35 secs | 1950s | Russia; Europe; Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Newspaper headline ÒDrastic Action on CommunistsÓ. Interview Frank Hardy talking about the Red Bill going before the high court at a time when the middle class were very rich.
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Access No. 135153 | 11 secs | 1950s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival b&w newsreel footage, super: Cinesound Review, 1950, members of Communist party outside building as they protest against the anti Red Bill, zoom to highlighted excerpt from the Act, victorious men (Communists) carrying man in suit on shoulders. Interview Frank Hardy talking about the Red Bill being declared invalid, linking his own trial defence with the struggle against the Red Bill.
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Access No. 135154 | 52 secs | 1950s, 1990s, | Australia | © Film World | Colour |
Newspaper clipping headline ÒIntimidation of ÔPower Without Glory' AuthorÓ. Interview Frank Hardy talking about feeling pressure from the impact of public opinion during his trial.
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Access No. 135155 | 23 secs | 1950s, 1990s, | Australia | © Unknown | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1950, smiling Jack Galbally. Interview Frank Hardy talking about Galbally's opening statement in court that the book ÒPower Without GloryÓ was a Communist plot against the democratic system of Australia, his only defense being identity, Crown needing proof that the West characters were based on the Wrens. B&W photo, 1950, Frank Hardy with his counsel D. Campbell leaving court. Interview Frank about the Crown not wanting to prove that the book was true and Counsel not wanting to prove it wasn't true.
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Access No. 135156 | 1 min 8 secs | 1950s, 1990s, | Australia | © John Fairfax Publications | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1950, Frank Hardy and wife Rosslyn leaving court, Frank with cigarette in mouth. Interview Frank Hardy talking about his counsel D. Campbell's summing up at the trial, asking why John Wren was not present at court, this having a great effect on the outcome of the trial. B&W photo, 1951, John Wren and son outside court, both wearing hats. Interview Frank about verdict for acquittal happening in five minutes.
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Access No. 135157 | 1 min | 1950s, 1990s, | Australia | © John Fairfax Publications | Colour |
Newspaper clipping, 1951, headline ÒJury Acquits Author in Wren CaseÓ.
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Access No. 135158 | 2 secs | 1950s | Australia | © Sydney Morning Herald | B&W |
Still b&w photograph, 1951, CU Frank Hardy kissing wife Rosslyn after court acquittal, b&w photo, 1951, Frank smiling with counsel D. Campbell as wife Rosslyn watches on. Interview Frank Hardy talking about having packets of cigarettes sewn into his overcoat as he had been prepared to go to jail.
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Access No. 135159 | 15 secs | 1950s, 1990s, | Australia | © Herald & Weekly Times | Colour |
Still b&w photograph (blurred), circa 1950s, Frank Hardy's mother Winnie. Interview Frank Hardy talking about his family, except sister Mary, never speaking to him again after court case, his mother going to Mass and Frank being denounced from the pulpit, Catholic Church campaigning against Communists.
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Access No. 135160 | 29 secs | 1950s, 1990s, | Australia | © Frank Hardy | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1950s, Frank Hardy in profile wearing glasses writing at desk. Interview Frank Hardy talking about writing little in the five years after ÒPower Without GloryÓ, his thought processes as a writer being destroyed. B&W photo, 1950s, profile Frank sitting at desk with hand to mouth. Interview Frank about there being a period of fifteen years when his books were not reviewed, being a social outcast after ÒPower Without GloryÓ until producer Clement Semmler took him in from the cold in 1965.
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Access No. 135161 | 39 secs | 1950s, 1990s, | Australia | © Unknown | Colour |
Scene from 1960s television series ÒThe Yarns of Billy BorkerÓ with male character drinking at bar, super. Interview Frank Hardy talking about Muggeridge describing Hardy in a SMH newspaper article as Òa most Australian AustralianÓ. Archival footage, 1963, super, interview with Frank Hardy saying he finds the basis of Marxism a useful world outlook for him as a writer, but having conflicts. Interview Frank.
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Access No. 135162 | 47 secs | 1960s, 1990s, | Australia | © ABC Television | Colour |
Archival b&w footage, circa 1950s, Nikita Khruschev speaking, men on balcony overlooking seated audience of Communist Party congress, MS Josef Stalin looking at document, VS people fleeing burning ruins. Interview Frank Hardy talking about the revelation of Stalin's terrorism and betrayal of people who believed in the Communist movement.
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Access No. 135163 | 27 secs | 1950s, 1990s, | Russia; Australia | © Unknown | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1960s Russia, Frank Hardy pointing with another man in glasses with waterfall in B/G. Interview Frank Hardy talking about his generation (of Communists) being betrayed.
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Access No. 135164 | 8 secs | 1960s, 1990s, | Russia; Australia | © Unknown | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1951, Communist Party march with banner for the Australian Communist Party. Interview Frank Hardy talking about the abandonment of the Communist Party causing him to write ÒBut the Dead are ManyÓ, thought to be the definitive book of the Communist movement, then going north to take up the Aboriginal cause, believing that the cause of Communism in white society was finished.
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Access No. 135167 | 44 secs | 1950s, 1990s, | Australia | © John Fairfax Publications | Colour |
Archival colour footage, 1985, set to song ÒPoor Bugger Me, GurindjiÓ with reference to Vestey, Aboriginal people walking across grassland, various CU's Aboriginal faces looking to camera. Interview Frank Hardy talking about going north in 1966 to get away from himself and situation. Archival b&w footage Aboriginal stockmen walking, CU young Aboriginal man, group of young men in akubra hats. Interview Frank about being approached by Dexter Daniels and becoming involved in the Aboriginal strike.
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Access No. 135168 | 36 secs | 1960s, 1990s, | NT, Australia; Australia | © ABC Television | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1960s - 1970s, Frank Hardy sitting with Gurindji man (possibly Dexter Daniels), Frank with pipe in mouth and another Aboriginal man in B/G. Interview Frank Hardy talking about finding himself again when he became involved with the Aboriginal struggle for equal rights.
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Access No. 135172 | 7 secs | 1960s, 1990s, | Australia | © Unknown | Colour |
Archival b&w footage, 1966, two Aboriginal women in dresses walking with washing and sitting under humpy. Interview Frank Hardy talking about living with the Aborigines in the Northern Territory for seven months, his state of mind leading him to write ÒThe Unlucky AustraliansÓ and ÒBut the Dead are ManyÓ. Front cover of ÒThe Unlucky AustraliansÓ.
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Access No. 135175 | 27 secs | 1960s, 1990s, | NT, Australia; Australia | © ABC Television | Colour |
Interview Frank Hardy talking about his marriage to Rosslyn Phyllis Cooper, daughter of a butcher. Still b&w photograph, 1951, Frank Hardy carrying stack of books outside court with wife Rosslyn. Interview Frank about Rosslyn being a well-organised, stable and kind person. B&W photo, 1951, Frank, Rosslyn and two children all looking down at something. Interview Frank about being married to Rosslyn for thirty years, then separated before she died, describing Rosslyn's tragic death in Manly.
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Access No. 135177 | 1 min 55 secs | 1950s, 1990s, | Australia | © John Fairfax Publications | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1951, smiling Frank Hardy with wife Rosslyn, Frank holding satchel and book under arm, dissolve to b&w photo, 1961, WS Frank and Rosslyn walking in Moscow. Dissolve.
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Access No. 135179 | 8 secs | 1950s, 1960s, | Australia; Russia | © John Fairfax Publications | Colour |
Still b&w portrait photograph, 1960s, Frank Hardy with wife Rosslyn and young daughter Frances. Dissolve.
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Access No. 135180 | 6 secs | 1960s | Australia | © Unknown | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1980s, CU Frank Hardy wearing glasses, looking up. Interview Frank Hardy talking about having the ambition to go deeper into things than literature has succeeding in doing before, subject matter coming from himself, his love for Australian history and love of absurd humour, listing his life searches and various obsessions including gambling.
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Access No. 135182 | 1 min 20 secs | 1980s, 1990s, | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1970s, Frank Hardy at Adelaide racecourse, squatting down as he looks at form guide. Interview Frank Hardy talking about most writers beginning with an aim and feeling of duty, writing about the poor and exposing the corrupt, realising that books choose you.
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Access No. 135183 | 49 secs | 1970s, 1990s, | Australia | © Unknown | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1970s-1980s, Frank Hardy with arm outstretched at protest over poverty outside Frank Walker's office. Dissolve.
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Access No. 135216 | 5 secs | 1970s | Australia | © John Fairfax Publications | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1970s, MCU Frank Hardy wearing glasses, pipe in hand, gesturing to camera. Interview Frank Hardy talking about owing something to ordinary Australians and duty to write for them, quoting Lawson poem.
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Access No. 135217 | 1 min 20 secs | 1970s, 1990s, | Australia | © Unknown | Colour |
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