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Mungo MacCallum

A lifelong questioner of the status quo, Mungo MacCallum was a distinguished journalist, writer and broadcaster best known for his satirical wit.
Series : Australian Biography Series 5 | Year : 1996 | Total Duration : 27 Minutes | Producer : Robin Hughes, Linda Kruger
Director : Robin Hughes, Linda Kruger |
WS B&W photograph of Point Piper from Double Bay, 1914. CU pan across photograph of residences from Woollahra Point to Point Piper, 1909 with voice-over of Mungo MacCallum describing growing up in the area.
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Access No. 139171 | 42 secs | 1910s | Point Piper, Sydney, NSW, Australia | © State Library of NSW | B&W |
MS interview with Mungo MacCallum talking about growing up in Point Piper, Sydney.
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Access No. 139172 | 5 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
GS archival B&W footage of yachts sailing, one with spinnaker flying.
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Access No. 139173 | 7 secs | 1920s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Film World | B&W |
MS interview with Mungo MacCallum talking about his childhood in Point Piper, Sydney.
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Access No. 139174 | 6 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU B&W photograph of Mungo MacCallum as a small child.
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Access No. 139175 | 4 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Mungo MacCallum | B&W |
CU B&W photograph of Mungo MacCallum as an adult.
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Access No. 139176 | 10 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
MS interview with Mungo MacCallum talking about MacCallum's family and family expectations.
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Access No. 139177 | 24 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU B&W photograph of Mungo MacCallum smiling as a child.
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Access No. 139178 | 4 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Mungo MacCallum | B&W |
MS interview with Mungo MacCallum talking about MacCallum's family expectations.
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Access No. 139179 | 14 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS archival B&W photograph of Sydney Grammar preparatory school.
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Access No. 139180 | 4 secs | 1920s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Sydney Grammar School | B&W |
MS interview with Mungo MacCallum talking about his family's achievements at Sydney Grammar preparatory school.
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Access No. 139181 | 12 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photographs of Mungo MacCallum's two brothers George then Duncan in Sydney Grammar school photographs.
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Access No. 139182 | 5 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Sydney Grammar School | B&W |
MS interview with Mungo MacCallum talking about Sydney Grammar preparatory school.
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Access No. 139183 | 3 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU B&W photograph of the Sydney Grammar School coat of arms and tilt up window at Sydney Grammar school.
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Access No. 139184 | 5 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Sydney Grammar School | B&W |
MS interview with Mungo MacCallum relating an incident where he was involved in an accident as a child which left him unattended and badly hurt.
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Access No. 139185 | 46 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU B&W photograph of a teenaged Mungo MacCallum wearing braces on his teeth, 1927.
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Access No. 139186 | 6 secs | 1920s | Australia | © Sydney Grammar School | B&W |
MS interview with Mungo MacCallum talking about the pain he suffered after being involved in an accident as a boy.
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Access No. 139187 | 15 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS pan across B&W photograph of Sydney Grammar students to Mungo MacCallum wearing braces on his teeth.
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Access No. 139188 | 6 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Mungo MacCallum | B&W |
CU interview with Mungo MacCallum listing his involvement as lead of the debating team at Sydney Grammar as his one act of distinction.
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Access No. 139189 | 11 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS pan across archival B&W photograph of Mungo MacCallum's class photograph from Sydney Grammar School.
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Access No. 139190 | 9 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Mungo MacCallum | B&W |
CU interview with Mungo MacCallum being questioned on his academic performance and his response where he tells of his very strong inner life.
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Access No. 139191 | 26 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS of a painting by Mungo MacCallum and fade to CU and tilt up painting.
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Access No. 139192 | 12 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Mungo MacCallum | Colour |
CU interview with Mungo MacCallum with him talking about the encouragement he received from his father then goes on to speak of his father's tragic life.
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Access No. 139193 | 11 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU B&W photographic portrait of Mungo MacCallum's father, also Mungo.
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Access No. 139194 | 12 secs | 1920s | Australia | © Mungo MacCallum | B&W |
MS interview with Mungo MacCallum speaking about his father's struggles in setting up as a barrister after returning to Australia as a Rhodes scholar from Oxford. He describes his father's subsequent career as a journalist. MS of a book open at a page with a photograph of MacCallum's father and CU MacCallum writing. MS MacCallum outlining his career in writing right from preparatory school days.
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Access No. 139195 | 40 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Zoom out from CU of The Sydneien, the Sydney Grammar School journal dated May, 1928.
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Access No. 139196 | 6 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Sydney Grammar School | Colour |
MS interview with Mungo MacCallum about his early writings from Sydney Grammar School.
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Access No. 139197 | 2 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU tilt across B&W photograph of St Andrew's College members, Sydney University, 1932 with zoom into Mungo MacCallum.
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Access No. 139198 | 15 secs | 1930s | Australia | © St Andrews College, University of Sydney | B&W |
CU interview with Mungo MacCallum about his cadetship at the Sydney Morning Herald.
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Access No. 139199 | 18 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS B&W photograph of the Sydney Morning Herald building, Hunter Street.
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Access No. 139200 | 4 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © State Library of New South Wales, Mitchell Library | B&W |
MS interview with Mungo MacCallum about his cadetship at the Sydney Morning Herald, which was his first job.
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Access No. 139201 | 32 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU B&W photograph with pan across row of journalists. WS of photograph showing journalists working at desks in large room.
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Access No. 139202 | 15 secs | 1930s | Australia | © John Fairfax Publications Ltd | B&W |
CU interview with Mungo MacCallum where he talks of the collapse in his father's life brought about largely from the enduring problems he suffered after a cycling accident.
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Access No. 139203 | 10 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS slow-motion B&W archival footage of a man cycling.
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Access No. 139204 | 4 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Film World | B&W |
CU interview with Mungo MacCallum where he describes his father's hospitalisation and life-long disability after a cycling accident.
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Access No. 139205 | 1 min | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU interview with Mungo MacCallum talking about his father's drinking habits after his illness, how it affected his leader writing at the Sydney Morning Herald and his death at age 48.
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Access No. 139206 | 1 min 3 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU B&W photograph of Mungo MacCallum's father.
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Access No. 139207 | 6 secs | 1920s | Australia | © Mungo MacCallum | B&W |
CU B&W obituary in the Sydney Morning Herald with a photograph of Mungo MacCallum's father. Zoom into photograph.
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Access No. 139208 | 9 secs | 1930s | Australia | © John Fairfax Publications Ltd | B&W |
MS interview with Mungo MacCallum where he describes his first experience of being drunk and his realisation that drinking would be a problem for him to control.
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Access No. 139209 | 1 min 41 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU sepia toned portrait of Mungo MacCallum's mother.
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Access No. 139210 | 6 secs | 1920s | Australia | © Mungo MacCallum | B&W |
Interview with Mungo MacCallum about his mother where he recalls her reaction to his first bout of drunkenness.
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Access No. 139211 | 17 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU B&W photograph of the Sydney Morning Herald building and tilt down the front facade on Hunter Street.
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Access No. 139212 | 8 secs | 1920s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © State Library of New South Wales, Mitchell Library | B&W |
CU interview with Mungo MacCallum talking about his life as a journalist at the Sydney Morning Herald. He also speaks of what he perceives as his lack of discipline as a writer.
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Access No. 139213 | 50 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
ECU B&W archival footage of someone writing on page.
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Access No. 139214 | 12 secs | 1940s | Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
CU interview with Mungo MacCallum where he talks about his relationship with Diana Wentworth.
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Access No. 139215 | 5 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU B&W photograph of Mungo MacCallum's first wife Diana Wentworth.
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Access No. 139216 | 6 secs | 1950s | Australia | © ABC Document Archives | B&W |
CU interview with Mungo MacCallum where he talks about his relationship with Diana Wentworth and their marriage and his parent's disapproval of him.
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Access No. 139217 | 36 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Zoom in to Mungo MacCallum in B&W photograph of the army journal Salt staff posed in lines in army uniform, 1943.
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Access No. 139218 | 12 secs | 1940s | Australia | © MacLaren Gordon | B&W |
CU interview with Mungo MacCallum talking about the army journal Salt which he edited during the war years and the political controversy it spawned.
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Access No. 139219 | 25 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU cartoon from the journal Salt which Mungo MacCallum edited during the war years and CU to controversial articles published in it such as "White Australia". CU letters page.
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Access No. 139220 | 14 secs | 1940s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview with Mungo MacCallum where he talks about how rewarding editing the controversial magazine "Salt" was for him.
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Access No. 139221 | 3 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU zoom out to covers from the journal Salt which Mungo MacCallum edited during the war years.
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Access No. 139222 | 12 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU interview with Mungo MacCallum talking about his post-war job on the Sydney Sun writing a satirical column called National Circus. MacCallum describes his anger at the Establishment at the time.
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Access No. 139224 | 52 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Zoom into B&W photograph of Mungo MacCallum and his wife Diana smiling to camera.
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Access No. 139225 | 7 secs | 1950s | Australia | © ABC Document Archives | B&W |
Interview with Mungo MacCallum talking about the strain both he and his marriage were under retreating for a month to a nursing home to dry out. He speaks of the failure of the treatment he received.
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Access No. 139227 | 53 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS B&W photograph of the exterior of the ABC building, William Street, Sydney.
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Access No. 139228 | 8 secs | 1950s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © ABC Document Archives | B&W |
Interview with Mungo MacCallum talking about his time at the ABC and the pleasure he had from creative writing. He speaks of his controversial debut with a piece about being drunk.
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Access No. 139229 | 40 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W CU photograph of Mungo MacCallum at a microphone in the ABC Outside Broadcast van dated 4/8/56.
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Access No. 139230 | 6 secs | 1950s | Australia | © ABC Document Archives | B&W |
CU interview with Mungo MacCallum where he talks of finding his mŽtier at the ABC but being too preoccupied for the good of his family.
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Access No. 139231 | 25 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of Mungo MacCallum's wife Diana reading to their son Mungo Jnr.
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Access No. 139232 | 5 secs | 1950s | Australia | © ABC Document Archives | B&W |
CU interview with Mungo MacCallum where he talks about working at the ABC and his raging at the bureaucrats and his behaviour at the time.
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Access No. 139299 | 43 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU B&W photograph of Diana MacLaren and zoom out to MS of her with Mungo.
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Access No. 139300 | 9 secs | 1950s | Australia | © ABC Document Archives | B&W |
MS B&W photograph of Mungo MacCallum with group gathered around ABC TV camera.
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Access No. 139301 | 3 secs | 1950s | Australia | © ABC Document Archives | B&W |
B&W MS photograph of Mungo MacCallum at a microphone sitting with others in the ABC Outside Broadcast van dated 4/8/56.
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Access No. 139302 | 5 secs | 1950s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © ABC Document Archives | B&W |
WS B&W photograph of Mungo MacLaren and others in television studio. CUs to various people from different programme departments and cameras
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Access No. 139303 | 14 secs | 1950s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © State Library of New South Wales | B&W |
MS interview with Mungo MacCallum talking about public television broadcasts he was involved in the the ABC.
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Access No. 139304 | 14 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of ABC television crew filming from the pylon on the Sydney Harbour Bridge for the programme "Sydney from the Bridge". Zoom out showing cameras and the Bridge. WS of ABC Outside Broadcast van positioned at Milsons Point almost under the Sydney Harbour Bridge with cameraman standing on the roof with camera filming. MS of Mungo MacCallum looking down from pylon over Bridge during outside broadcast.
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Access No. 139305 | 15 secs | 1950s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © ABC Document Archives | B&W |
MS interview with Mungo MacCallum talking about filming Sydney from the Harbour Bridge for the ABC in the 1950s.
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Access No. 139306 | 6 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival B&W footage of the opening night of ABC-TV featuring announcer Michael Charlton.
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Access No. 139307 | 38 secs | 1950s | Australia | © ABC Content Sales, Library Sales | B&W |
MS interview with Mungo MacCallum talking about the immediacy of television.
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Access No. 139308 | 10 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival B&W footage of Government House, Canberra introduced by Mungo MacCallum.
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Access No. 139309 | 25 secs | 1950s | Canberra, ACT, Australia | © ABC Content Sales, Library Sales | B&W |
CU interview with Mungo MacCallum talking about an awkward experience he had with Lady Slim while filming at Government House, Canberra.
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Access No. 139310 | 13 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival B&W footage of Mungo MacCallum walking around the rose gardens of Government House, Canberra with Lady Slim and her dog trailing a long microphone cord.
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Access No. 139311 | 6 secs | 1950s | Canberra, ACT, Australia | © ABC Content Sales, Library Sales | B&W |
CU interview with Mungo MacCallum telling an anecdote about being filmed walking around the rose gardens of Government House, Canberra with Lady Slim and her dog trailing a long microphone cord.
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Access No. 139312 | 14 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival B&W footage of Mungo MacCallum with Lady Slim and her dog in the rose gardens of Government House, Canberra trailing a long microphone cord.
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Access No. 139313 | 10 secs | 1950s | Canberra, ACT, Australia | © ABC Content Sales, Library Sales | B&W |
CU interview with Mungo MacCallum telling an anecdote about being filmed walking around the rose gardens of Government House, Canberra with Lady Slim and her dog and MacCallum getting tangled in cord.
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Access No. 139314 | 4 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival B&W footage of Mungo MacCallum with Lady Slim and her dog in the rose gardens of Government House, Canberra getting caught in the long microphone cord and walking off with cord between his legs.
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Access No. 139315 | 28 secs | 1950s | Canberra, ACT, Australia | © ABC Content Sales, Library Sales | B&W |
MS interview with Mungo MacCallum talking about his promotion to a management position in the ABC whist still trying to stay involved in the various aspects of programs.
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Access No. 139316 | 28 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU B&W photograph of Mungo MacCallum from 1964. Zoom into his face.
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Access No. 139317 | 20 secs | 1960s | Australia | © ABC Document Archives | B&W |
CU interview with Mungo MacCallum talking about the nervous breakdown he suffered when he held a management position at the ABC. He then talks about his successful return to the ABC as a freelancer.
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Access No. 139318 | 51 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU newspaper clipping announcing Mungo MacCallum as Awgie winner with tilt down to photograph of MacCallum.
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Access No. 139319 | 10 secs | 1960s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
CU interview with Mungo MacCallum talking about his personal problems through the 1960s.
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Access No. 139320 | 52 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU tilt up painting of Mungo MacCallum (possibly painted by Polly MacCallum).
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Access No. 139321 | 14 secs | 1960s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS colour informal wedding photograph of Mungo MacCallum and his second wife Polly.
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Access No. 139322 | 7 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Mungo MacCallum | Colour |
MS interview with Mungo MacCallum talking about the positive effect marriage to his second wife Polly had on him.
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Access No. 139323 | 8 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS colour photograph of Mungo MacCallum and his second wife Polly by the sea.
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Access No. 139324 | 8 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Mungo MacCallum | Colour |
MS interview with Mungo MacCallum where he names music and art as giving him pleasure and joy through life. CU MacCallum writing and tilt up to his face as he sits at desk. MS MacCallum seen from behind looking at bay and city view from his verandah .
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Access No. 139325 | 1 min 35 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
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