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Inga Clendinnen

Inga Clendinnen is a renowned writer and historian whose work on Aztec and Mayan culture and the Holocaust has been praised around the world.
Series : Australian Biography Series 8 | Year : 2001 | Total Duration : 26 Minutes | Producer : Robin Hughes
Director : Robin Hughes |
Interview Inga Clendinnen talking about getting to know other peoples' minds, 2001. Super. Freeze frame. Still b&w photograph Inga as baby, 1934. Interview Inga talking about her father. B&W photo Inga Clendinnen's father. Pan up to show him smiling atop a ladder. Interview Inga talking about the Depression. B&W photo Inga as young girl with her mother. Interview Inga talking about her mother.
Access No. 131424 | 2 mins 5 secs | 1930s | Australia | © Inga Clendinnen | Colour |
Archival b&w footage woman in laundry, 1940s. Silhouetted woman bending over copper and walking out with bowl of washing. Young girl / daughter in doorway follows her to washing line. Interview Inga Clendinnen talking about mother's routine of household chores. Archival b&w footage woman hanging out washing in small back yard. Children in B/G. Interview Inga, 2001.
Access No. 131425 | 27 secs | 1940s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still b&w photograph high WS town of Geelong.
Access No. 131426 | 13 secs | 1940s | Geelong, VIC, Australia | © Geelong Historical Society | B&W |
Still b&w photograph suburban weatherboard cottages in Yarra Street, one with white picket fence.
Access No. 131427 | 1990s | Geelong, VIC, Australia | © Joyce Evans | B&W |
Still b&w photograph Inga Clendinnen as young girl with sister and mother walking down steps, 1930s - 1940s. B&W photo Inga as a young girl standing on steps in garden. Detail of photo MS Inga in checkered dress. Cactus in B/G. Interview Inga talking about hostel for servicemen set up by her father during WWII, 2001.
Access No. 131428 | 34 secs | 1930s | Geelong, VIC, Australia | © Inga Clendinnen | Colour |
Still b&w photograph uniformed servicemen playing pool inside Servicemen's Hostel, Geelong, 1942. Super. Detail photo CU pan of men playing pool. Detail photo two men standing by. Interview Inga Clendinnen talking about family friendship with US marines. Still b&w photo man making shot at pool table. B&W photo men standing around pool table. Pan across faces. Interview (2001) Inga talking about marines being killed in Guadalcanal during WWII.
Access No. 131429 | 1 min 10 secs | 1940s | Geelong, VIC, Australia | © Geelong Historical Society | Colour |
Archival b&w footage soldiers landing on Guadalcanal, 1940s. Marines in landing boat, vs running onto beach. Interview Inga Clendinnen talking about US marines returning to family house in Geelong, 2001. Archival b&w footage WWII battle footage on Guadalcanal,1940s. Medic attending wounded soldier on stretcher. Group of US soldiers posing for camera, holding Japanese flag and weapons. Interview Inga talking about cost of war, 2001.
Access No. 131430 | 49 secs | 1940s | Guadalcanal, Pacific Ocean ; Australia | © Film World | Colour |
Still b&w photograph Inga Clendinnen with family and dog, 1940s. Detail photo Inga standing next to brother. B&W photo CU portrait Inga's sister. Interview Inga Clendinnen talking about sister and her own thoughts on leading a Òsafe lifeÓ, 2001. Still b&w photograph Inga as young girl in school uniform. Interview Inga talking about education / teachers and her scholarship opportunities, 2001.
Access No. 131431 | 1 min 10 secs | 1940s | Geelong, VIC, Australia | © Inga Clendinnen | Colour |
Still b&w photograph Morongo school entrance.
Access No. 131432 | 5 secs | 1940s | VIC, Australia | © Geelong Historical Society | B&W |
Still b&w photograph Inga Clendinnen as schoolgirl holding flag with friend, 1940s - 1950s. B&W photo pan up to Inga and school friend smiling with arms around each other. B&W photo young Inga in school uniform and hat. Interview Inga talking about how mother had told her about menstruation, 2001.
Access No. 131433 | 1 min 20 secs | 2000s | VIC, Australia | © Inga Clendinnen | Colour |
Still b&w photograph Inga Clendinnen as young woman, 1950s. B&W photo Inga at her wedding to John Clendinnen, Pan up to cutting wedding cake. Interview Inga Clendinnen talking about reason for marriage at early age of twenty. B&W photo Inga and friends at wedding, laughing. Interview Inga. B&W photo Inga and husband John at wedding reception. B&W photo Inga's mother at wedding reception. B&W photo Inga and John at table. Detail photo CU Inga.
Access No. 131434 | 1 min | 1950s | VIC, Australia | © Inga Clendinnen | Colour |
Interview Inga Clendinnen talking about motherhood, 2001. Still b&w photograph Inga as young mother with baby. Interview Inga talking about maternal instincts, 2001. B&W photo Inga with children on beach, Inga relaxing on sun lounge. B&W photo Inga with two sons in park, Inga wiping boy's face. B&W photo Inga with sons in garden / park, Inga at outdoor table. Interview Inga talking about motherhood and the start of her interest in research and history. Colour photo two boys sitting on stone fence, vista in B/G. Interview Inga, 2001.
Access No. 131435 | 1 min 33 secs | 2000s | Vic, Australia | © Inga Clendinnen | Colour |
Pan of book cover with Aztec design, titled ÒAztecs - an InterpretationÓ by Inga Clendinnen.
Access No. 131436 | 8 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Cambridge University Press | Colour |
Pan up Aztec figure / statue against white B/G. CU face of figure with closed eyes and wide open mouth. Interview Inga Clendinnen talking about violence. VS colour pictures / images of Aztec warriors. Interview Inga talking about blood in Aztec civilisation, 2001. Colour pictures bloodied Aztec people. Interview Inga, 2001. Colour picture / painting bloodied Aztec people. Still b&w photograph Aztec temple. B&W photo Inga and boys at Aztec site. Interview Inga talking about challenges, including death, 2001.
Access No. 131437 | 3 mins 18 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Inga Clendinnen | Colour |
Still colour photograph Inga Clendinnen with two sons at Aztec site, 1960s. Interview Inga talking about her plans at the time she became ill, 2001.
Access No. 131438 | 23 secs | 1960s | South America | © Inga Clendinnen | Colour |
Still b&w photograph Inga Clendinnen with another older male academic, toasting champagne glasses, both in academic garb / robes. Interview Inga talking about illness, 2001.
Access No. 131439 | 19 secs | 2000s | Australia | © La Trobe University | Colour |
Footage of nurse standing by hospital patient on gurney in doorway / entrance, asking patient questions. Glass doors open and hospital staffer walks through. Nurses push gurney through hospital ward and corridor. Interview Inga Clendinnen talking about finishing book on Aztecs while ill, 2001. Slow motion footage of nurse mopping floor of hospital ward and moving caution sign in entrance. Interview Inga talking about need to appear in control, 2001. Footage CU hands putting on surgical gloves. Interview Inga talking about relationship with doctor, 2001.
Access No. 131440 | 2 mins 14 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Footage of ambulance driving into hospital forecourt. Zoom to exterior hospital windows. Interview Inga Clendinnen talking about going on list for liver transplant, 2001. Footage operation in process in operating theatre. VS surgeons at work. Pan from doctor at computer to operating theatre viewed through window. Interview Inga talking about good Australian policy / values with organ transplants, 2001.
Access No. 131441 | 1 min 13 secs | 2000s | Australia | © ABC Television | Colour |
Pan of book cover title ÒInga Clendinnen - A Memoir - Tiger's EyeÓ. Interview Inga Clendinnen talking about reasons for writing her book, Tiger's Eye. Pan down book cover title ÒReading the HolocaustÓ. ÒBest Book off the YearÓ written on cover. Interview Inga talking about holocaust, 2001.
Access No. 131442 | 1 min 6 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Text Publishing | Colour |
Archival b&w footage Jewish people being loaded up onto train by German / Nazi soldiers, WWII holocaust, 1940s. Women packing bundled baby into carrybag on side of railway tracks. VS people clambering onto train. Wooden door sliding shut. Interview Inga Clendinnen talking about question of human capacity for genocide, 2001.
Access No. 131443 | 57 secs | 1940s | Europe ; Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Pan up print / 1966 painting ÒThe Football MatchÓ used on cover for True StoriesÓ. Detail of print showing dark figure in hats. Interview Inga Clendinnen talking about race relations in Australia, 2001.
Access No. 131444 | 28 secs | 2000s | Australia | © ABC Books / Ray Crook | Colour |
Archival b&w footage Aboriginal prisoners / chain gang walking along with hands chained.
Access No. 131445 | 5 secs | Unknown | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still b&w photograph Aboriginal prisoners / chain gang. Pan. Detail of photo two Aboriginal men in chains. Interview Inga Clendinnen talking about wrongdoings by white Australians to Aboriginal peoples.
Access No. 131446 | 31 secs | Various | Australia | © Dorita Thompson | Colour |
Archival b&w footage Aboriginal children on settlement lined up for food. Man attends young Aboriginal boys as other children watch on. Interview Inga Clendinnen talking about individual schools of thought. Archival b&w footage Aboriginal people on settlement. Children playing. mother with baby and children. Camp settlement with smoke from campfires. Woman and children by lean-to / hut.
Access No. 131447 | 1 min 26 secs | Unknown | Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival b&w footage Aboriginal camp with smoke from several fires, 1937. Aboriginals sitting in large circle for ceremony. Men in centre of circle initiate man lying down. Interview Inga Clendinnen talking about having autonomy, 2001.
Access No. 131448 | 43 secs | 1930s | Australia | © National Film and Sound Archive | Colour |
Various still b&w photographs: Inga Clendinnen as young girl with mother, Inga as schoolgirl in uniform, MS Inga as young woman outdoors, CU in winter clothes, in white sweater and short hair, in sleeveless top wearing sunglasses, CU in winter clothes, with young son in park, MS Inga in black top, CU with short hair. Interview Inga talking about moral conduct, 2001.
Access No. 131449 | 1 min 37 secs | Unknown | Australia | © Inga Clendinnen | Colour |