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Charles Birch

One of the world's leading scientists, biologist Charles Birch pioneered genetics and ecological studies - and also won a major prize for theology.
Series : Australian Biography Series 5 | Year : 1996 | Total Duration : 26 Minutes | Producer : Frank Heimans
Director : Frank Heimans |
WS beach in orange sunset and CU to waves lapping shore. GS biologist Charles Birch emerging from sea in swimming briefs and running up sand.
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Access No. 139354 | 43 secs | 1990s | Bondi, Sydney, Australia | © ABC Content Sales, Library Sales | Colour |
MS interview with biologist Charles Birch talking about working hard at school.
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Access No. 139356 | 6 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU photographic portrait of Charles Birch with super reading "Charles Birch Born Melbourne, 1918 Biologist. Winner, Templeton Prize for religion 1990".
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Access No. 139357 | 11 secs | 1990s | Australia | © John Fairfax Publications Ltd | Colour |
MS B&W baby photograph of Charles Birch and his twin brother Sid, 1918. Zoom into Birch's face.
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Access No. 139358 | 10 secs | 1910s | Australia | © Charles Birch | B&W |
MS interview with biologist Charles Birch responding to interviewer's question on what determined who he has become with the environment.
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Access No. 139359 | 19 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W photograph of biologist Charles Birch's mother sitting in a cane chair in a garden c.1930s.
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Access No. 139360 | 6 secs | 1930s | Australia | © Charles Birch | B&W |
Interview with biologist Charles Birch where he speaks of his family background and puts environmental factors above genetic ones for our personalities.
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Access No. 139361 | 1 min 2 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of biologist Charles Birch's father c.1930s.
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Access No. 139362 | 5 secs | 1930s | Australia | © Charles Birch | B&W |
MS interview with biologist Charles Birch where he relates the differences between his father and himself.
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Access No. 139363 | 18 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU pan across B&W photograph of biologist Charles Birch's mother with kookaburra sitting on her hand while another watches close on balcony railing.
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Access No. 139364 | 9 secs | 1950s | Australia | © Charles Birch | B&W |
CU interview with biologist Charles Birch's talking about the great influence his mother had on his life and interest in becoming a biologist.
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Access No. 139365 | 31 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of Charles Birch and his twin brother Sid in their Scotch College uniforms, 1932.
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Access No. 139366 | 7 secs | 1930s | Australia | © Charles Birch | B&W |
MS interview with biologist Charles Birch talking about his dislike of school even though he and his twin brother participated in activities together.
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Access No. 139367 | 7 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W WS of Scotch College Presbyterian school.
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Access No. 139368 | 5 secs | 1930s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
CU interview with biologist Charles Birch talking about the religious aspects of Scotch College which he disliked.
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Access No. 139369 | 9 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W photo with zoom in to a young adolescent Charles Birch standing with his twin brother Sid in striped school uniforms, 1933. Zoom in to Charles.
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Access No. 139370 | 8 secs | 1930s | Australia | © Charles Birch | B&W |
MS interview with biologist Charles Birch about the emotional problems and sexual feeling he had as a schoolboy which he feels the school failed to resolve.
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Access No. 139371 | 53 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W WS photograph of Melbourne University buildings.
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Access No. 139372 | 6 secs | 1930s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
MS interview with biologist Charles Birch talking about his great desire to go into agriculture at university as a means of helping the world.
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Access No. 139373 | 52 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU B&W photographic portrait of Charles Birch as a young man.
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Access No. 139374 | 6 secs | 1930s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
WS B&W photograph of the Waite Institute, Adelaide, 1939 where Charles Birch studied entomology.
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Access No. 139375 | 5 secs | 1930s | Adelaide, SA, Australia | © Charles Birch | B&W |
MS interview with biologist Charles Birch talking about his initial research into plague grasshoppers. He speaks of the frustration of not being able to put the results of his research into practice.
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Access No. 139376 | 1 min 24 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU B&W photograph of Charles Birch and zoom in to ECU to his eyes.
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Access No. 139377 | 13 secs | 1930s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
CU interview with biologist Charles Birch talking about his philosophical and religious development in Adelaide. He speaks of discovering the very liberal Student Christian Movement in which he could integrate his scientific side.
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Access No. 139378 | 1 min 6 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS B&W photograph of Charles Birch with a group of friends including Prof. Andrewartha at Waite Institute, Adelaide, 1939.
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Access No. 139379 | 6 secs | 1930s | Adelaide, SA, Australia | © Charles Birch | B&W |
MS interview with biologist Charles Birch talking about his struggle to combine the different aspects of his life to enable him to understand the world around him. He speaks of the important things he learned and the questions he asked himself.
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Access No. 139380 | 1 min 2 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
GS B&W photograph of biologist Charles Birch with two female friends at the Waite Institute, 1945.
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Access No. 139381 | 5 secs | 1940s | Adelaide, SA, Australia | © Charles Birch | B&W |
MS interview with biologist Charles Birch talking about his lack of interest of forming close one-on-one relationships preferring to socialise in groups.
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Access No. 139382 | 35 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS B&W photograph of group of people gathered around table drinking tea at International House, Chicago, 1947. Pan to biologist Charles Birch looking on.
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Access No. 139383 | 7 secs | 1940s | Chicago, USA | © Charles Birch | B&W |
CU interview with biologist Charles Birch responding to questions about his lack of relationships.
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Access No. 139384 | 10 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W photograph of biologist Charles Birch standing in front of stone wall at the University of Chicago wearing suit and spectacles, 1946.
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Access No. 139385 | 6 secs | 1940s | Chicago, USA | © Charles Birch | B&W |
MS interview with biologist Charles Birch talking about studying population ecology at the University of Chicago.
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Access No. 139386 | 23 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W photograph of biologist Charles Birch and two colleagues from University of Melbourne on field trip working in water with timber poles.
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Access No. 139387 | 9 secs | 1930s | Australia | © Charles Birch | B&W |
MS interview with biologist Charles Birch explaining the relevance of ecology on the world relating an analogy made by his colleague Paul Erlich. He explains why the issue is of top importance.
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Access No. 139388 | 1 min 28 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W WS group photograph of Charles Birch and colleagues at the University of Chicago.
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Access No. 139389 | 4 secs | 1940s | Chicago, USA | © Charles Birch | B&W |
MS interview with biologist Charles Birch talking about expanding his biological horizons at Chicago University. He speaks of how his time there helped him decide on a career in a teaching institute. CU to Birch talking about his disappointment when he next went to Oxford University.
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Access No. 139390 | 56 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W archival photograph of Charles Birch standing in front of iron fence in Oxford University, 1947.
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Access No. 139391 | 4 secs | 1940s | Australia | © Charles Birch | B&W |
CU interview with biologist Charles Birch talking about the atmosphere amongst researchers at Oxford.
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Access No. 139392 | 24 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W archival class photograph at Wesley College, Sydney University, 1950 with zoom into Charles Birch.
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Access No. 139393 | 10 secs | 1950s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Charles Birch | B&W |
MS interview with biologist Charles Birch talking about why he chose to come to Sydney University rather than another university on his return from overseas in 1948.
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Access No. 139394 | 15 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU B&W photograph of biologist Charles Birch in laboratory in profile looking into microscope.
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Access No. 139395 | 5 secs | 1950s | Australia | © Charles Birch | B&W |
WS B&W photograph of biologist Charles Birch standing at microphone in front of large group of students at the University of Adelaide during lunchtime lecture on the environment. CU to Birch in glasses with tilt down to students in front rows.
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Access No. 139396 | 15 secs | 1960s | Adelaide, SA, Australia | © Charles Birch | B&W |
CU interview biologist Charles Birch talking about his professional relationship with his Adelaide supervisor Professor Andrewartha.
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Access No. 139397 | 36 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of Charles Birch with two overseas colleagues.
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Access No. 139398 | 5 secs | 1960s | Geneva, Switzerland | © Charles Birch | B&W |
Interview with biologist Charles Birch talking about taking a year off to go to Brazil with Professor Dubzhanski.
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Access No. 139399 | 2 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of biologist Professor Dubzhanski from Columbia University holding a toucan on his arm, 1956.
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Access No. 139400 | 9 secs | 1950s | Brazil, South America | © Charles Birch | B&W |
MS interview with biologist Charles Birch talking about his time in Brazil to study the evolution of fruit flies. He also talks about his vehement opposition to conscription for the Vietnam War. He speaks of students being jailed for being against conscription.
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Access No. 139401 | 51 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival B&W footage of Anti Vietnam War demonstrations down street with banners. MS shots of protesters in marching crowd.
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Access No. 139402 | 4 secs | 1970s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Smiley Films | B&W |
CU interview with biologist Charles Birch talking about forming a group with other academics called Committee on Conscience to support students against conscription as well as visiting those students jailed and organising anti-conscription meetings.
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Access No. 139403 | 1 min 5 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival B&W footage of Anti-Vietnam demonstration with MS of policemen positioned along street as camera tracks past students walking towards Sydney Town Hall.
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Access No. 139404 | 6 secs | 1970s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Smiley Films | B&W |
Archival B&W footage of Anti-Vietnam demonstration with tilted MS to female singer in headscarf playing guitar to crowd.
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Access No. 139405 | 8 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Smiley Films | B&W |
Archival B&W footage of Anti-Vietnam demonstration with high angle pan over thousands of protesters.
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Access No. 139406 | 9 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Smiley Films | B&W |
MS interview with biologist Charles Birch speaking about religious and spiritual beliefs and how they fit in with his scientific beliefs and life.
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Access No. 139407 | 38 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU B&W photograph of biologist Charles Birch's face wearing thick black glasses.
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Access No. 139408 | 5 secs | 1960s | Australia | © Charles Birch | B&W |
CU interview with biologist Charles Birch talking about how he sees science fitting in with theology and his rejection of the concept of an interventionist God.
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Access No. 139409 | 1 min 15 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS biologist Charles Birch walking around Nielsen Park and CU to magpie walking in undergrowth.
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Access No. 139410 | 16 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © ABC Content Sales, Library Sales | Colour |
WS waves crashing on rounded rocks, CU sea rushing over rocks and CU to conjevoys attached to rocks with water swirling over them. High angle WS of biologist Charles Birch and male walking over rocks near sea.
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Access No. 139411 | 18 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © ABC Content Sales, Library Sales | Colour |
CU on biologist Charles Birch's face as he talks of his belief in the notion that God is open to change and has adapted to changes in the world over the past centuries.
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Access No. 139412 | 1 min 18 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU pair of Rainbow Lorikeets perched on balcony railing and MS biologist Charles Birch feeding them seeds with view overlooking Sydney Harbour.
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Access No. 139413 | 18 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS interview with biologist Charles Birch talking about the books he has written and published. CU pan across books scattered across table. Zoom out from Birch to MS as he explains how to calculate environmental impact. CU to his book "On Purpose".
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Access No. 139414 | 1 min 25 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W photograph with tilt up from group of wooden animals arranged on coffee table to biologist Charles Birch sitting on a sofa in his home. Photo taken at the time of winning Templeton Prize, 1990.
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Access No. 139415 | 9 secs | 1990s | Australia | © John Fairfax Ltd | B&W |
MS interview with biologist Charles Birch talking about how being mentally creative gives him happiness.
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Access No. 139416 | 21 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
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