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Is Anybody Doing Anything About it?

A dramatised introduction to the work of the Bureau of Meteorology.
Year : 1967 | Total Duration : 26 Minutes | Producer : Richard Mason
Director : Donald Crombie |
HAS pan ANZ building and other high rise buildings. Zoom in to street. Woman going to work. Opening titles. People out of lift into open plan office with many desks.
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Access No. 66520 | 1 min 5 secs | 1960s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Woman knocks on door of office, man exercising in chair as she enters. He is an editor, she is a reporter. They talk about doing report on the Bureau of Meteorology, she is reluctant.
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Access No. 123844 | 1 min 39 secs | 1960s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Air to air small aircraft. Inside cockpit, man from Bureau and woman reporter talking about weather processes. POV aircraft as it turns. POV above aircraft as it lands.
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Access No. 123845 | 2 mins | 1960s | © NFSA | Colour |
Weather balloon in air. Radar tracking. Man from Bureau and woman reporter standing underneath, talking. Inside the Bureau of Meteorology. VS man with graphs, charts, computers, tracking device.
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Access No. 123846 | 1 min 29 secs | 1960s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Man from Bureau showing woman reporter control room where energy consumption is looked at. Weather implications. Watch screen tracking satellite overhead, map of Australia. Satellite picture printed out.
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Access No. 123847 | 2 mins 26 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | Colour |
Large room full of large computers. Australia participating in world weather watch. CU's wheels and printer controls. Man from Bureau and woman reporter looking and talking.
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Access No. 123848 | 2 mins 29 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | Colour |
Bureau of Meteorology chief drinking cup of tea and talking to woman reporter and man showing her around. Man and woman get in lift, Talking with other people in lift. Get out of lift, chatting to another man.
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Access No. 123849 | 4 mins | 1960s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Man from Bureau of Meteorology and woman reporter in bakery making meat pies. Try to talk to man over noisy machinery about the effect of weather on factory.
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Access No. 123850 | 57 secs | 1960s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Man from Bureau of Meteorology and woman reporter driving in open topped car. Driving through city chatting. Aircraft flying overhead. Inside cockpit, pilots chatting to flight attendant, they wink at each other as she leaves. Old woman in county road, driving old Dodge, stops to talk to couple. They drive to farm and talk to woman again. Look at newly born chicks, their hatching effected by weather.
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Access No. 123851 | 2 mins 50 secs | 1960s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Man from Bureau of Meteorology and woman reporter walking through orchard. Man stops to talk in telephone box.
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Access No. 123852 | 50 secs | 1960s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Tractor spraying vineyard. Man from Bureau of Meteorology and woman reporter chatting and eating grapes. Trawler at sea, POV ship to rough seas. Inside ship on the bridge. Man from Bureau of Meteorology and woman reporter walk along street, enter hairdressers, woman has hair done. Women under hairdryers look to camera
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Access No. 123853 | 2 mins 14 secs | 1960s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Secretary in office seated at desk painting her nails. Woman reporter enters office. Talking to editor. Leave in rain. Woman reporter meets up with man from Bureau of Meteorology , walk under umbrella together in rain.
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Access No. 123854 | 2 mins 7 secs | 1960s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
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