Priscilla Kincaid-Smith

Interview Priscilla Kincaid-Smith, 1999, talking about childhood memories and deciding at young age that there was no way she was going to become a suburban housewife. Super. Still b&w portrait photograph Priscilla's father, zoom to CU face. Interview Priscilla about her father's belief in equality between men and women. B&W photo family home. B&W photo Priscilla as girl with her brother and a sister / siblings. Interview Priscilla about not encountering gender discrimination until coming to Melbourne, Australia.

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Still b&w photograph Priscilla Kincaid-Smith as schoolgirl in uniform. B&W photo Priscilla sitting in garden wearing school blazer. B&W photo swimming team, zoom to Priscilla. B&W photo Priscilla as young woman holding teddy bear. Interview, 1999, Priscilla Kincaid-Smith talking about her two sisters always being top of the class at school., and she never doing any work at school. B&W photo pull back from Priscilla in bathers / swimmers and cap to group of female swimmers. B&W photo Priscilla in swimmers with two other girls, 1940s.

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Interview Priscilla Kincaid-Smith, 1999, talking about giving up swimming career because of medical school. Still b&w photograph pan from boy / brother paddling canoe to Priscilla in water behind canoe. B&W photo Priscilla as young woman sitting on rocks with young man with arm around her. B&W photo group of young people outdoors sitting in front of weathervane. Interview Priscilla about loving the outdoor life. B&W photo head shot of Priscilla as young girl with blond hair, 1930s bobbed haircut.

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Still b&w photograph Priscilla Kincaid-Smith as teenager in white blouse. Interview , 1999, Priscilla Kincaid-Smith talking about going to university to study physical education but being too young deciding to do a medical science degree. B&W photo Priscilla's face as young woman. B&W photo university classmates, zoom to Priscilla. Interview Priscilla about parents being Christian Scientists and not approving of her going into medicine. B&W photo Priscilla as baby being held by her mother, 1920s.

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Interview Priscilla Kincaid-Smith, 1999, talking about her recovery as a three year old from meningococcal meningitis and her parents being convinced it was because they were Christian Scientists. Still b&w photograph Priscilla as young woman lying on grass with three female friends. Interview Priscilla about being politically involved at university and extremely left wing.

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Still b&w photograph university classmates posing for photo, all male except Priscilla Kincaid-Smith, zoom to Priscilla. Interview Priscilla Kincaid-Smith, 1999, talking about partly graduating towards the right politically since university days. B&W photo Priscilla as young woman, 1940s. Interview Priscilla about inequity of black-white relations in South Africa and her strong convictions for equality for black people. B&W photo Priscilla and other medical students in white coats. Interview Priscilla about loving clinical work. B&W photo Priscilla and doctor on ward round.

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Interview Priscilla Kincaid-Smith, 1999. talking about working with patients. Archival b&w footage pan across township across the road from Soweto.

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Still b&w photograph people in crowded outpatients clinic,South Africa, white nurse attending patient. Interview Priscilla Kincaid-Smith, 1999, talking about drugs becoming available to help cure the sick people coming into the clinic at Baragwanath Hospital. B&W photo crowded outpatients clinic with patients lying on floor. B&W photo nurses bending over gurney. Interview Priscilla about the hard work that had to be done in the Soweto hospital.

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Still b&w photograph Priscilla Kincaid-Smith as young woman with two female friends standing in front of Duke of Wellington monument, London, Priscilla pointing finger. B&W photo group of doctors on course, including Priscilla, standing around bed in ward, Hammersmith Hospital, London. Interview Priscilla Kincaid-Smith, 1999, talking about excitement and wonderful knowledge gained while at Hammersmith Hospital, London. Detail of previous photo, pan from group of male doctors to Priscilla.

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Still b&w photograph Priscilla Kincaid-Smith and husband Ken Fairley on their wedding day. Interview Priscilla Kincaid-Smith, 1999, talking about meeting her husband in a post mortem room. B&W photo Ken, then Priscilla. B&W photo Ken and Priscilla cutting wedding cake. Interview Priscilla about giving up a senior position at Hammersmith Hospital to come to Australia and not seeing why she couldn't do the same work in Australia.

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Archival colour footage Melbourne street scene with trams and cars, 1960s, high angle crowd of pedestrians crossing road. Interview Priscilla Kincaid-Smith, 1999, talking about women not being accepted in the workforce in Melbourne.

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Still b&w photograph Priscilla Kincaid-Smith and husband Ken Fairley. Interview Priscilla Kincaid-Smith, 1999, talking about finding at all levels in Melbourne society the view that all women should give up work to stay at home and look after the family.

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Still b&w photograph people sitting at long function table with white tablecloth, zoom to CU of Priscilla Kincaid-Smith, 1950s. Interview Priscilla Kincaid-Smith, 1999, talking about financial difficulty when first arrived in Melbourne and doing GP locums for a short time to bring in money, then going on to the Baker Institute, also losing twins during that time.

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Still b&w photograph face of Priscilla Kincaid-Smith. Interview Priscilla Kincaid-Smith, 1999, talking about knowing that her first pregnancy with twins was going wrong all the time although other medical people were telling her everything was fine, her twins then dying late pregnancy. B&W photo Priscilla head shot. Interview Priscilla about her and Ken considering going to New Guinea.

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Archival colour footage two New Guinean nurses pushing male patient along in wheelchair past other New Guinean patients sitting on bench outside hospital, New Guinean doctors and nurse in operating theatre, 1960s. Interview Priscilla Kincaid-Smith, 1999, talking about not being able to take up post in New Guinea in 1959 because she was married and therefore unemployable, so taking the decision to return to Melbourne.

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Still b&w photograph Priscilla Kincaid-Smith standing with man at function holding drinks. Interview Priscilla Kincaid-Smith, 1999, talking about being infuriated and unhappy that as a woman she was unable to work in New Guinea, on return to Melbourne getting a part time research job at the University of Melbourne.

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Still b&w photograph Priscilla Kincaid-Smith's twin baby boys, 1960s. B&W photo Priscilla with one of her twin boys. B&W photo Priscilla's children pan left daughter between two sons. B&W photo Priscilla's daughter. B&W photo the boys as young teenagers, pan left from one to the other laughing. Interview Priscilla Kincaid-Smith, 1999, talking about buying a place at Apollo Bay for family weekends when she was returning to full-time work after 1967. Colour photo view of Apollo Bay. Colour photo Priscilla driving small tractor with dog sitting behind.

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Still colour photograph of family wedding party posing for photo, pullback to reveal Priscilla Kincaid-Smith's family with bride and groom. Interview Priscilla Kincaid-Smith, 1999, talking about being pleased with the way her children turned out. B&W photo Priscilla and husband Ken in white coats posing for photo next to x-ray. Detail photo pan from Ken's hand holding pointer at x-ray to their smiling faces. Interview Priscilla about coming across two autopsy cases with a particular kidney disease and being intrigued by this as she's never seen it at Hammersmith.

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Still b&w photograph Priscilla Kincaid-Smith sitting at microscope. Interview Priscilla Kincaid-Smith, 1999, talking about she and husband Ken discovering the effects on kidneys from APC medications such as Bex and Vincent's powders. B&W photo WS previous Priscilla sitting at microscope. Interview Priscilla about these medicines being the most common cause of renal failure in Australia at the time and taking these APC medications was an Australian habit only.

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Archival colour footage women with shopping trolleys at supermarket checkout counter, 1960s. Interview Priscilla Kincaid-Smith, 1999, talking about how Australians used to buy Bex and Vincent's powders in large quantities and take them as a habit which was as bad as smoking cigarettes or taking drugs.

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Archival b&w footage from Vincent's television commercial / advertisement ÒTV stands for Take Vincent'sÓ and shot of packaging with voiceover. Interview Priscilla Kincaid-Smith, 1999, talking about how she always thought (jokingly) that the Australian women had a reason to take analgesics because of their domestic situations.

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CU newspaper headline ÒNew Kidney Treatment Gives HopeÓ, pan down to article and photograph of Dr Priscilla Kincaid-Smith.

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Still b&w photograph young man in hospital bed with man and woman standing by him, pan left to Dr Priscilla Kincaid-Smith looking on. Interview Priscilla Kincaid-Smith, 1999, talking about getting involved in dialysis and transplantation and associated research and analysis.

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Still b&w photograph Priscilla Kincaid-Smith with male colleagues holding teacups. Interview Priscilla Kincaid-Smith, 1999, talking about her thinking that the year 1967 was the year they liberated Australian women and Aboriginals, getting job as first assistant in medicine at University of Melbourne.

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Archival colour footage exterior Royal Melbourne Hospital 1940s, tree in F/G, closer shot with tram passing.

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Archival colour footage medical staff working in operating theatre on kidney transplant, covering patient with protection sheet, MCU doctor's hands lifting kidney out of dish and putting into plastic bag held by assistant.

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Still b&w photograph group of male doctors in suits gathered on steps, pan down and zoom in to Priscilla Kincaid-Smith who is the only female.

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Still b&w photograph nephrology conference / convention, 1974, zoom to Priscilla Kincaid-Smith sitting at table. Interview Priscilla Kincaid-Smith, 1999, talking about various high profile positions as a woman, discouragement encountered, eventually gaining personal chair in 1975.

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Still b&w photograph Dr Priscilla Kincaid-Smith sitting at table, pan up from name plate. B&W photo WS panel sitting behind conference desk with backdrop covered with word ÒMelbourneÓ, zoom to Priscilla. Interview Priscilla Kincaid-Smith,1999, talking about reasons people were against her as a woman, mother, outsider. Newspaper article on Priscilla's election as first woman president of College of Physicians with photo of Priscilla smiling. Interview Priscilla story about representing AMA Council in Spain. Newspaper headline Ò Woman President of International Medical AssociationÓ and photo of Priscilla at microscope.

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Interview Priscilla Kincaid-Smith, 1999, talking about dilemma for women in developing world on birth control. Archival colour footage group of Asian children , young Asian woman holding baby, clothesline in F/G, woman holding baby with three small children. Interview Priscilla about various reasons for deaths in women in third world. Archival colour footage Asian women and children sitting and standing around village for outdoor health information clinic, VS women and children, toddler fanning baby, demonstration on how to fit a condom.

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Still b&w photograph Priscilla Kincaid-Smith meeting with Asian doctors. B&W photo Priscilla shaking hands / greeting Asian woman.

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Still b&w photograph Priscilla Kincaid-Smith standing at podium in academic gown. Interview Priscilla Kincaid-Smith talking about speaking out on abortion issues. B&W photo Priscilla standing between two men, all in academic gowns, zoom to MCU Priscilla. Interview Priscilla about responsibility for new graduates and women scholars dropping out because they got sick of battling and never getting what they applied for, the committee always choosing a man for a specialty.

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Still colour photograph Priscilla Kincaid-Smith and other academics from University of the Witwatersrand, all wearing red and gold academic gowns, 1982. Detail photo MCU Priscilla. Interview Priscilla Kincaid-Smith, 1999, talking about her confidence which probably cam from her childhood when she felt she could do anything. B&W photo young Priscilla in school uniform. Interview Priscilla. B&W photo CU Priscilla as older women. Interview Priscilla about getting furious about things. Colour photo Priscilla in academic gown and cap seated in chair. Detail photo pan up to MCU Priscilla.

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Interview Priscilla Kincaid-Smith, 1999, talking about disliking retirement from university at age of 65. Footage exterior hospital, trees in F/G. Priscilla visiting woman patient in hospital ward, looking at her chart. Interview Priscilla Kincaid-Smith talking about feeling nobody wanted her once she found more time on her hands. Footage pan from patient's hand to equipment, Priscilla looking at chart. Interview Priscilla about doing good and intention to keep going until someone decides to kick her out.

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