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Phillip Law

Phillip Law was Director of the Australian Antarctic Division for nearly 20 years.
Series : Australian Biography Series 2 | Year : 1993 | Total Duration : 26 Minutes | Producer : Frank Heimans, Sharon Connolly (Supervising Producer)
Director : Frank Heimans |
Aerial zoom to blue sea and ice of Antarctica, dissolve to aerial track past barren snow-covered mountains, past high peak.
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Access No. 135462 | 22 secs | Unknown | Antarctica | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival b&w footage men and dog team on Mawson's Antarctic expedition, men digging in snow in blizzard, two men on rock with meteorological instrument. Interview Phillip Law talking about most of Antarctica still being unexplored when he came into the picture.
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Access No. 135463 | 19 secs | 1910s, 1990s, | Antarctica; Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, circa 1960s, Phillip Law wearing hooded gear and spiked ice shoes and holding stick looking straight to camera, super: Phillip Law, Born 1912, Scientist, Explorer. Interview Phillip Law talking about curiosity being a powerful driving force for explorers as well as being the first to do something.
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Access No. 135464 | 27 secs | 1960s, 1990s, | Antarctica; Australia | © Phillip Law | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, circa 1950s, WS camp on ice in front of large iceberg. Interview Phillip Law talking about explorers' thrill at being to remote and unexplored locations.
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Access No. 135465 | 10 secs | 1950s, 1990s, | Antarctica; Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, circa 1950s, LS expedition ship Kista Dan with icy stalactites in F/G. Interview Phillip Law talking about pleasure of exploration.
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Access No. 135466 | 9 secs | 1950s, 1990s, | Antarctica; Australia | © Museum Victoria | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1955, Phillip Law and two other men sitting on rock of Mount Henderson.
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Access No. 135467 | 3 secs | 1950s | Antarctica | © Phillip Law | B&W |
Still b&w photograph, circa 1950s, MCU Phillip Law in hooded anorak.
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Access No. 135468 | 6 secs | 1950s | Antarctica | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Still b&w photograph high angle view patterned icescape meeting water. Interview Phillip Law talking about feeling an immense thrill to witness an unexplored view. B&W photograph large iceberg with man in F/G.
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Access No. 135469 | 21 secs | Unknown, 1990s, | Antarctica; Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Interview Phillip Law talking about his first mountaineering experiences being with his grandfather, wanting to climb Mount Charlie since being a boy, climbing it at the age of 78. Still b&w group photograph, circa 1930s, children from Mitta Mitta school. Interview Phillip about six children in his family being disciplined very severely by their father. B&W photo, 1937, CU Phillip Law's father. Interview Phillip about being locked up in coat cupboard being terrifying, being scared of his father but his brother Geoff defying him.
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Access No. 135470 | 2 mins 57 secs | 1990s, 1930s, | Australia | © Phillip Law | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1910s, Phillip Law as toddler with four year old brother Geoffrey, both in rustic coats. Interview Phillip Law talking about envying his brother Geoffrey's freedom that he'd created for himself. B&W photo, 1947, MS Phillip smiling in suit, no beard. Interview Phillip about being over cautious as a boy, starting to plunge off the deep end a bit more as a teenager. B&W photo, 1932, Phillip and three other young men in boxing team, all wearing singlets and gloves. Interview Phillip about having more fun with risk taking.
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Access No. 135471 | 1 min 18 secs | 1910s, 1990s, | Australia | © Phillip Law | Colour |
Detail still b&w photograph, 1930s, Phillip Law in cricket team. Interview Phillip Law talking about his brother Geoffrey stirring him out of a lethargy, organising trips. B&W photo, 1936, Phillip and brother Geoffrey on skiing trip, walking with skis on shoulders. Interview Phillip. B&W photo, 1930s, Geoff Law in ski gear.
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Access No. 135472 | 25 secs | 1930s, 1990s, | Australia | © Phillip Law | Colour |
Interview Phillip Law talking about doing his masters degree when the war broke out. Still b&w photograph, 1939, Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies with another man and two officers in front of building. Interview Phillip about Menzies asking students to finish their degrees during WWII, students being frustrated while war was going on overseas, setting up the University National Service, giving speech to large meeting.
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Access No. 135473 | 1 min 20 secs | 1990s, 1930s, | Australia | © John Fairfax Publications | Colour |
Still b&w photograph Phillip Law as young man in suit during university days. Interview Phillip Law talking about the University National Service running physical fitness and social service classes in the poorer suburbs, organising camps in the fruit picking season.
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Access No. 135475 | 30 secs | 1930s, 1990s, | Australia | © Phillip Law | Colour |
Archival b&w footage women working in Shepparton canning factory. Interview Phillip Law talking about returning to university after fruit picking to start research in classical physics, doing his PhD when it was introduced.
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Access No. 135538 | 58 secs | 1930s, 1990s, | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, circa 1940s, clean-shaven Phillip Law smiling, b&w photo, 1938, Phillip on snow skis at Mount Hotham with snowcapped mountain in B/G. Interview Phillip Law talking about conversation with scientific advisor to the Commonwealth government, Professor Martin, which led to him becoming chief scientific officer of Antarctic Division. B&W photo, 1940s, CU Phillip smiling to camera. Interview Phillip about an expedition planning committee including Douglas Mawson. Interview Phillip about Mawson.
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Access No. 135541 | 1 min 17 secs | 1940s, 1990s, | Australia | © Phillip Law | Colour |
Archival b&w footage, 1911, departure of Australasian Antarctic expedition on Aurora from Hobart, crew, crowd on wharf, VS ship and setting up camp in Antarctic.
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Access No. 135543 | 28 secs | 1910s | Australia; Antarctica | © NFSA | B&W |
Archival B&W footage, 1914, Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance towards camera, ship trapped in ice, MS mast and rigging breaking up, masts falling. Interview Phillip Law talking about the disappointing Shackleton voyage.
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Access No. 135546 | 14 secs | 1910s, 1990s, | Antarctica; Australia | © ABC Television | Colour |
Archival b&w footage, 1948, Antarctic research expedition, title, VS ship HMAS Wyatt Earp being loaded in Hobart, commander Earl at ship's wheel, VS ship at sea, Phillip Law viewing through meteorological surveying instrument, bow of ship through rough sea, commander in wheelhouse. Interview Phillip Law talking about going through violent storm on way to Antarctic expedition. Archival footage POV bridge port side of ship rolling in rough seas. Interview Phillip about ship's accommodation area being flooded with icy cold water.
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Access No. 135547 | 59 secs | 1940s, 1990s, | Australia; Antarctica | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival b&w footage, 1948, Antarctic expedition ship Wyatt Earp POV bridge to bow pitching through rough seas, Phillip Law playing accordion and singing with shipmates, man at ship's bow as it moves towards icebergs. Interview Phillip Law talking about the Wyatt Earp being unsuitable for Antarctic conditions. Archival footage icebergs, two expedition men on ship's deck, LS iceberg at sunset with rigging in F/G, commander looks through binoculars, sea at sunset.
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Access No. 135551 | 42 secs | 1940s, 1990s, | Antarctica; Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview Phillip Law talking about returning from the Wyatt Earp expedition within a year to physics department at university, applying for position as assistant officer in charge, scientific. Archival b&w footage, 1948, Stewart Campbell looking through binoculars, LS ship through channel, men running ashore from duck. Interview Phillip about Stewart Campbell disliking him and trying to stop him getting the job, being appointed by department of external affairs anyway.
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Access No. 135554 | 52 secs | 1990s, 1940s, | Australia; Antarctica | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival b&w footage, 1963, Phillip Law planting Australian flag in ice in Oates Land accompanied by other expedition men.
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Access No. 135563 | 8 secs | 1960s | Antarctica | © ABC Television | B&W |
Still b&w photograph, 1950s, CU Phillip Law with goatee beard. Interview Phillip Law talking about being appointed as Australian observer with Norwegian-Swedish expedition in 1950. B&W photo Phillip looking through 16mm Bolex camera. Interview Phillip about watching an Antarctic station being built, learning a lot from Norwegian captain. B&W photo Norwegian ship Norsel moored by ice. Interview Phillip about being well prepared to set up Mawson station in 1954.
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Access No. 135564 | 56 secs | 1950s, 1990s, | Antarctica; Australia | © Phillip Law | Colour |
Archival colour footage, 1954, Norwegian expedition ship Kista Dan moving up Yarra, MS ship approaching dock to berth at with men on wharf in F/G. Interview Phillip Law talking about Kista Dan arriving in Melbourne. Archival colour footage men bringing raft with drums ashore, men struggling in wash with seaweed pulling on rope attached to raft. Interview Phillip. Archival colour footage pointer at map following route of Antarctic expedition from Melbourne to Heard Island. Interview Phillip about having to try and find Mawson's station.
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Access No. 135565 | 45 secs | 1950s, 1990s, | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival colour footage, 1956, tracking aerial over icefloes in water, MCU Phillip Law and Captain Petersen on ship's bridge looking out window, iceberg dipping in sea, men looking out from deck, ship past seal on icefloe, crew on deck, icefloes, man at ship's railing with camera as ship passes iceberg. Interview Phillip Law describing scenery near Mawson on 1956 expedition, running into fast ice.
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Access No. 135566 | 47 secs | 1950s, 1990s, | Antarctica; Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival colour footage, 1956, VS bow of expedition ship Kista Dan moving through ice, POV ship's bow as it cuts through ice, ice cracking, point of bow comes to standstill, WS Kista Dan stuck in ice, red plane taking off from ice, aerial icefloes and ship on ice, LS plane in flight against grey sky, aerial Mawson Harbour. Interview Phillip Law talking about the danger of fast ice around Mawson where they landed in light aircraft, pilot Doug Lecke spinning aircraft to avoid crashing into iceberg. Archival footage plane on skis being pushed over ice near Kista Dan.
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Access No. 135568 | 2 mins 1 sec | 1950s, 1990s, | Antarctica; Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview Phillip Law talking about returning to ship Kista Dan in ice after flight. Archival colour footage, 1950s, orange ÒweaselsÓ or snowmobiles across flat ice, high angle LS weasels across snowscape. Interview Phillip about organising excursions across sea ice by weasels while Kista Dan slowly progressed through ice, hit by hurricane near Horseshoe Harbour, hurricane creating pressure in fast ice around ship, causing ice to break and pile up all around them.
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Access No. 135569 | 1 min 40 secs | 1950s, 1990s, | Australia; Antarctica | © NFSA | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1950s, ice piled up against ship Kista Dan, silhouetted man leaning against railing. Interview Phillip Law talking about problem of getting ship out of ice. B&W photo, 1950s, low angle MWS ship Kista Dan trapped in ice. Interview Phillip about not being able to move ship from ice, resorting to manpower.
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Access No. 135570 | 31 secs | 1950s, 1990s, | Antarctica; Australia | © Phillip Law | Colour |
Archival colour footage, 1950s, VS ANARE workers digging at ice surrounding expedition ship Kista Dan. Interview Phillip Law talking about being in dangerous situation causing a mixture of fear and exhilaration. Archival colour footage MWS Kista Dan moving through flat thin ice, WS many penguins waddling across vast icescape, penguins diving into icy water, penguins waddling in F/G of Kista Dan, overhead shot penguins on ice, penguins huddled on edge of ice.
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Access No. 135573 | 55 secs | 1950s, 1990s, | Antarctica; Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival colour footage, 1950s, aerial expedition ship Kista Dan anchored in Horseshoe Bay, WS Phillip Law and two other men waving joyously beneath Australian flag at Mawson, VS ship being unloaded, super: Establishment of Mawson Station February 13, 1954, weasel hauling sledges with building materials, man operating pneumatic drill, VS construction of prefabricated huts, group of seals, aerial Mawson base, two men weighing husky, Phillip law emerging from helicopter, tender going ashore POV ship.
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Access No. 135574 | 33 secs | 1950s | Antarctica | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview Phillip Law talking about curiosity driving a scientist and expeditioner. Still colour photograph WS rocky mountains and snowfield with LS two men in F/G, colour photo Phillip Law standing on craggy rock formation, colour photo WS man standing between snowmobile and tent in snowstorm.
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Access No. 135576 | 17 secs | 1990s, 1950s, | Australia; Antarctica | © Australian Antarctic Division | Colour |
Archival colour footage, 1950s, Captain Petersen with pipe in mouth in wheelhouse of expedition ship Kista Dan. Interview Phillip Law talking about a ship's captain not having sense of adventure or discovery. Pan down exploration map showing ships' discovery routes in Antarctica. Interview Phillip about taking up post of Vice President of Victoria Institute of Collegiate in 1966, arising from Martin report on alternative structure of tertiary education in Australia, institute taking over technical colleges in Victoria.
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Access No. 135577 | 1 min 21 secs | 1950s, 1990s, | Antarctica; Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1976, Dr Muncey, Phillip Law and Ron Parry in Victoria College meeting. Interview Phillip Law talking about committees creating new tertiary courses, fighting for salary structures equivalent to universities', building new campuses and colleges. B&W photo committee meeting, University of Melbourne, possibly Victorian College of the Arts, Phillip Law seated in back row. B&W photo, 1984, Phillip holding Founder's Medal, Royal Geographic Society, cigar in other hand.
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Access No. 135579 | 1 min 2 secs | 1970s, 1990s, | Australia | © Phillip Law | Colour |
Interview Phillip Law talking about recognition. MS Australian Geographic Award for Excellence medal. Interview Phillip about most people dying before they're recognised, gaining more recognition as he gets older. Still b&w photograph Phillip Law on ship gangplank with microphone behind crowd on wharf. Interview Phillip about 80% of Australians being unadventurous, wanting people to take a step out to the semi-known.
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Access No. 135604 | 54 secs | 1990s, 1960s, | Australia | © John Fairfax Publications | Colour |
Various still colour photographs: man on port side of ship in high seas, craggy rocks in snow, Phillip Law standing on rock promontory overlooking sea with ice shelf in B/G, Phillip walking in deep snow with helicopter in B/G, MS Phillip in orange vest and woollen cap, rear view WS Antarctic party on skis approaching iceberg, helicopter hovering above rocks with supplies in net hanging and iceberg in B/G and man directing.
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Access No. 135608 | 25 secs | Various, 1990s, | Antarctica | © Phillip Law | Colour |
Interview Phillip Law talking about lesson of not knowing what your body can do until you force it to point of exhaustion. Still colour photograph MS Antarctic party on skis pulling sled across snow. Interview Phillip about people not using their brains to capacity, wanting young people to learn that they have infinite mental and physical resources built in, knowing that there will not always be success but if you have enough payoffs to keep encouraged you don't worry about the disappointments. Freeze frame.
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Access No. 135611 | 1 min 49 secs | 1990s | Australia; Antarctica | © Phillip Law | Colour |
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