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Dame Joan Hammond

One of the great opera stars of the two decades following World War Two, Joan Hammond established a wide international following as a soprano.
Series : Australian Biography Series 1 | Year : 1992 | Total Duration : 26 Minutes | Producer : Frank Heimans
Director : Frank Heimans |
Interview Dame Rachel Cleland talking about enjoyment of life, 2001. Super. Freeze frame. Still b&w photograph Dame Rachel as baby being held by her mother, 1906. B&W photo CU Dame Rachel as baby, smiling, 1900s. B&W photo Dame Rachel's mother, Olive Evans. Interview Dame Rachel about her mother. B&W photo Dame Rachel's father, William Herbert Evans. B&W photo family home. Detail of photo Evans children playing on front lawn of house. B&W photo Rachel as young girl with watering can. B&W photo Rachel with parasol.
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Access No. 131553 | 1 min 27 secs | 1900s | WA, Australia | © Dame Rachel Cleland | Colour |
Interview Dame Joan Hammond talking about depth and sound of audience applause, memory of occasion in Liverpool when audience was silent after singing a piece by Elgar ÒTo the FallenÓ, then sudden applause. Archival b&w footage, 1950s, concert audience clapping. Interview Joan about the silent pause being one of the most amazing moments of her career.
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Access No. 133473 | 1 min 34 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival b&w footage, 1962, Joan Hammond singing ÒOne Fine DayÓ aria from Puccini's Madame Butterfly.
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Access No. 133474 | 28 secs | 1990s | UK | © BBC Television | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1910s, Joan Hammond as young girl with miniature furniture. Interview Dame Joan Hammond talking about her mother exposing her to classical music as a child, doubting father's story that he had sung at Westminster.
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Access No. 133475 | 52 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Dame Joan Hammond | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1920s, Joan Hammond as teenager with friends. B&W group photo students from Pymble Ladies College (PLC), Killara, Joan highlighted, CU detail Joan. Group of photos, zoom in to photo of Joan and two other girls laughing on ferry. B&W photo Joan and other girls in swimming costumes at PLC. Interview Dame Joan Hammond talking about not liking maths at school. B&W photo PLC swimming pool.
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Access No. 133476 | 35 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Pymble Ladies College | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1930s, Joan Hammond in golf swing. Interview Dame Joan Hammond talking about beginning to play golf at links by family weekend place in Palm Beach. B&W photo, 1930s, WS Joan hitting off at golf course with crowd watching. Interview Joan about playing golf as a girl with three men. Pan of magazine article ÒMerciless GolfÓ with picture of Joan in golf swing. Interview Joan. Cover of 1933 Golf & Tennis Magazine with picture of Joan in golf swing.
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Access No. 133477 | 1 min 43 secs | 1990s | Australia | © State Library of New South Wales | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1930, Joan Hammond holding two golf trophies for NSW State Junior Championship, Royal Sydney Golf Club. Interview Dame Joan Hammond talking about accident causing severe arm injury, using arm by playing violin again after a year , playing in Sydney Symphony Orchestra despite handicap.
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Access No. 133478 | 2 mins 14 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Sydney Opera House | Colour |
Still b&w portrait photograph Joan Hammond as young woman in black beret. Interview Dame Joan Hammond talking about her Òfairy godmotherÓ, Lady Hore-Ruthven (Lady Gowrie).
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Access No. 133479 | 26 secs | 1990s | Australia | © John Fairfax Publications | Colour |
Still b&w portrait photograph, 1930s, Lady Hore-Ruthven (Lady Gowrie) holding terrier dog. Interview Dame Joan Hammond talking about Lady Hore-Ruthven (Lady Gowrie) who, on hearing Joan sing as a young girl, became determined to send her overseas to study.
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Access No. 133480 | 1 min 46 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Still b&w shot Vienna skyline, cathedral spire in F/G, super: Vienna, 1936. Still b&w photograph Vienna Boys Choir residence. B&W photo, circa 1935, Vienna Boys Choir and rector. Interview Dame Joan Hammond talking about countess living in prince's rooms of Vienna Boys Choir palace residence, having only bathroom in palace. Detail previous photo rector. Interview Joan about approaching rector about having daily shower, countess helping her with German language and giving her access to bathroom.
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Access No. 133481 | 1 min 14 secs | 1990s | Vienna, Austria, Europe; Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival b&w footage, 1930s, Nazi motorcade, Hitler standing in open topped car, CU cheering boys with swastika, WS marching German soldiers, MS profile Hitler saluting, tilt up people waving swastikas from balcony. Interview Dame Joan Hammond talking about her contact with Nazis during pre-war time in Vienna, first encounter with anti -Semitism. Archival footage German troops marching in goose-step. Interview Joan about anti-Semitism.
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Access No. 133482 | 1 min 59 secs | 1990s, 1930s, | Austria; Australia | © O.R.F Austrian Television | Colour |
Still b&w detail photograph,1930s, portrait Lady Hore-Ruthven (Lady Gowrie). Interview Dame Joan Hammond talking about Lady Gowrie arranging for her to go to London from Vienna for the coronation, auditioning while in London.
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Access No. 133483 | 28 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1930s, Dame Joan Hammond glamour portrait as young woman. Interview Dame Joan Hammond talking about getting parts in opera in England, her first opera in English.
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Access No. 133484 | 15 secs | 1990s | Australia | © State Library of New South Wales | Colour |
Archival b&w footage, 1940s, WWII bombing of city, VS people working in wreckage, damaged buildings, high shot adult and child walk past desolate bomb site. Interview Dame Joan Hammond talking about helping out as stretcher carrier during blitz despite her injured arm, travelling from Chelsea by bicycle.
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Access No. 133485 | 57 secs | 1990s | London, England, UK; Australia | © O.R.F Austrian Television | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, London Blitz 1940s, Joan Hammond in WWII home front clothing on bicycle with poodle dog Pippo sitting in front basket. B&W photo, 1940s, CU Joan Hammond's face, pearl earrings. Fade out.
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Access No. 133486 | 17 secs | 1940s | London, England, UK | © Sydney Opera House | B&W |
Newspaper clipping ÒSydney Singer's Success in LondonÓ.
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Access No. 133487 | 3 secs | 1940s | Australia | © John Fairfax Publications | B&W |
Still b&w photograph, 1956, glamour portrait shot Joan Hammond, diamond drop earrings. Fade out.
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Access No. 133488 | 3 secs | 1940s | © National Library of Australia | B&W |
Newspaper clipping ÒMiss Joan Hammond's SuccessÓ. Still b&w photograph, 1940s, Dame Joan Hammond as young woman in profile, pearl earrings. Newspaper clipping ÒPraise by Critics - Sydney Girl SingerÓ. Fade out.
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Access No. 133489 | 9 secs | 1990s | Australia | © John Fairfax Publications | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1940s, with Joan Hammond with Benjamin Gigli and Alicia Markova at Albert Hall, London. Interview Dame Joan Hammond talking about success of ÒOh My Beloved FatherÓ.
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Access No. 133490 | 20 secs | 1990s | London, England, UK; Australia | © Sydney Opera House | Colour |
Archival b&w footage, 1940s, Joan Hammond singing ÒOh My Beloved FatherÓ. Newspaper clipping, 1946, ÒJoan Hammond's Recital - Flawless SingingÓ. Archival footage continued Joan singing ÒOh My Beloved FatherÓ. Interview Dame Joan Hammond talking about becoming aware of her admirers, sensing mood of an audience, feeling warmth and love from an audience and on other occasions having to win approval, mainly with foreign audiences.
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Access No. 133491 | 1 min 32 secs | 1990s | London, England, UK; Australia | © BBC Television | Colour |
Archival b&w footage, 1946, flying boat arrival of Joan Hammond at Rose Bay, VS Joan being greeted, given bouquet of flowers, talking with Lt Col. Charles Moses, Joan talking to camera. Interview Dame Joan Hammond talking about the success for the ABC of her Australian tour in the 1940s.
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Access No. 133492 | 47 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Film World | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1946, Joan Hammond holding large bouquet of flowers with her mother wearing hat with net veil during Joan's Australia tour. Dissolve.
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Access No. 133493 | 5 secs | 1940s | Australia | © John Fairfax Publications | B&W |
Newspaper clipping ÒJoan Hammond DisappointingÓ. Dissolve.
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Access No. 133494 | 3 secs | 1940s | Australia | © Sydney Opera House | B&W |
Still b&w photograph, 1946, glamour shot Joan Hammond in operatic costume and tiara. Interview Dame Joan Hammond talking about not being happy with the way she was singing due to vocal strain and emotional strain from war years.
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Access No. 133495 | 29 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Victorian Arts Centre | Colour |
Programme cover ÒPresenting Joan HammondÓ with b&w photograph head shot of Joan. Interview Dame Joan Hammond talking about her trip to America through her Òfairy godmotherÓ Lady Gowrie, First Lady Mrs Roosevelt asking her to sing at luncheon. Still b&w photograph glamour shot Joan Hammond in operatic costume. Interview about declining the invitation because of commitments that day and night to opening of Tosca, thus slighting Mrs Roosevelt.
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Access No. 133496 | 1 min 33 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Sydney Opera House | Colour |
Still b&w photograph Lady Hore-Ruthven (Lady Gowrie) wearing hat with net veil. Interview Dame Joan Hammond talking about regretting declining invitation from First Lady Mrs Roosevelt to sing at luncheon, feeling she had not done as well in America as she should have.
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Access No. 133497 | 40 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival b&w footage, 1940s - 1950s, Joan Sutherland singing ÒOh Silver MoonÓ from Rusalka by Dvorak, seated on stage set in flowing gown. Interview Dame Joan Hammond talking about health problems later on in her career, wanting to forget about that stage of her life, being surprised when told she'd had a coronary.
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Access No. 133498 | 1 min 29 secs | 1990s | England, UK; Australia | © BBC Television | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1950s, Joan Hammond with two dogs (similar to poodles), one black one white. Interview Dame Joan Hammond talking about taking long sea voyage, not thinking she would get well again after coronary.
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Access No. 133499 | 28 secs | 1990s | England, UK; Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1960s, Dame Joan Sutherland in winter coat holding pair of binoculars. Newspaper clipping ÒReturn of a Noted LadyÓ with article about Dame Joan's teaching appointment at the Victorian College of the Arts. Interview Dame Joan Hammond talking about her teaching career. Newspaper article ÒIn Class With Dame JoanÓ. Interview Joan about teaching being less emotional than performing, disliking having to cancel performances and letting audiences down.
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Access No. 133500 | 46 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Sydney Opera House | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1970s, Governor -General Sir John Kerr with Dame Joan Hammond at her investiture at Government House. Interview Dame Joan Hammond talking about being taught humility throughout her life, learning humility through golf.
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Access No. 133501 | 30 secs | 1990s | Australia | © National Library of Australia | Colour |
Archival b&w footage, 1940s, Joan Hammond singing aria from the opera ÒThe Force of DestinyÓ by Verdi, wearing black cloak kneeling in front of statue of Madonna and child. Interview Dame Joan Hammond talking about saying a prayer before doing most things.
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Access No. 133502 | 44 secs | 1990s | England, UK; Australia | © BBC Television | Colour |
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