FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

Title Details

Keeping the Promise

The work of the Repatriation Department.
Year : 1961 | Total Duration : 30 Minutes | Producer : R J Edwards
Director : Loch Townsend |
The logo of the Repatriation Department and titles.
Access No. 123069 | 33 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | B&W |
WWI. VS Guns artillery, ships trenches, Gallipoli.
Access No. 123070 | 26 secs | 1910s | © NFSA | B&W |
WWII. VS Aircraft, artillery guns being loaded and fired, Kokoda. Victory celebrations with ticker tape. Wounded soldiers carried in stretchers from ship.
Access No. 123071 | 51 secs | 1940s | © NFSA | B&W |
Steps of Parliament House. Books thrown on desk indicating different versions of the Repatriation Act. Two nurses lead man to hospital bed. CU old man. Nurse helps injured woman apply lipstick and read a book.
Access No. 123072 | 30 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | B&W |
VS Exteriors service hospitals in various states including some aerials
Access No. 123073 | 27 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | B&W |
Repatriation Department offices in various capitals, exteriors and interiors.
Access No. 123074 | 21 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | B&W |
CU's student Reg Barnes and his mother widowed during WWII. They talk to next door neighbour Reg Barnes, WWII veteran with amputated foot. Another veteran from WWI, Mr Edgar seated in garden with wife.
Access No. 123075 | 1 min 35 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | B&W |
WWI Veteran Mr Edgar and wife at home chatting informally with family doctor GP who advises them to contact the Repatriation Department.
Access No. 123076 | 1 min 4 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | B&W |
Man opening letter. Good shot people seated at desks in open plan office. Army Records Office, man looking through files in shelves. Man at desk looking at paperwork.
Access No. 123077 | 1 min 3 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | B&W |
Family doctor GP at desk, looking through records. Hands through papers.
Access No. 123078 | 24 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | B&W |
VS Men undergoing medical examinations - using equipment to look at eyes, chest and head. Man with WWI veteran Mr Edgar's paperwork.
Access No. 123079 | 29 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | B&W |
WWII veteran Alf Sutherland at Outpatients department, exterior. Inside with doctor examining amputated leg stump and artificial limb. Talking.
Access No. 123080 | 57 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | B&W |
WWI veteran Mr Edgar and wife at Repatriation Department offices, talking to clerk.
Access No. 123081 | 1 min 4 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | B&W |
Three members of Repatriation Commission Board seated at table looking through papers. WWI veteran Mr Edgar at office, filling out forms. Mr and Mrs Edgar talk to doctor in white coat about medical history. Couple leave offices.
Access No. 123082 | 2 mins 19 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | B&W |
Student Reg Barnes who lost his father in WWII talking to man from Children's Education Scheme. Arranging for social worker to visit his sick mother at home. Woman taken away from home to hospital in car. Mrs Barnes in hospital bed, having blood pressure taken.
Access No. 123083 | 1 min 21 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | B&W |
WWII veteran Alf Sutherland in hospital bed taking breathing instructions from physiotherapist. Also doing leg exercises with amputated leg. Man in mask and nurses arrive with hospital trolley. POV patient to anaesthetist talking and counting patient into oblivion. Operation in progress to alleviate condition of amputated leg.
Access No. 123084 | 2 mins 37 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | B&W |
Hospital patients on trolleys. WWI veteran Mr Edgar undergoing a thermograph of body. Man looking at X-rays. Woman, WWII war widow, Mrs Barnes having blood test. Woman in laboratory looking through microscope. Elderly war veterans meet and chat in hospital ward. Visitors come in during visiting hour. Student Reg Barnes visits mother.
Access No. 123085 | 2 mins 17 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | B&W |
Doctors in white coats examine paperwork and chest X-rays. One doctor writes report and diagnosis.
Access No. 123086 | 1 min 50 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | B&W |
Physiotherapy amputee exercise class. Group with amputated limbs undergoing exercises.
Access No. 123087 | 54 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | B&W |
Three men of Repatriation Commission Board looking at papers.
Access No. 123088 | 25 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | B&W |
Bowling green at hospital. Ambulance arrives at Limb Factory. Man with amputated leg, WWII veteran Alf Sutherland, gets out. Stump of leg is examined and fitted with false limb. Man practising with limb. Workshop, the false limb is adjusted and finished and fitted to patient.
Access No. 123089 | 3 mins 45 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | B&W |
Woman in office operates punch card machine preparing details for veterans, machine prints cheques and packs into envelopes.
Access No. 123090 | 33 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | B&W |
WWI veteran at Occupation Therapy Centre. He and others being helped with daily living skills . Man with no hands learning to use hooks to dress himself. Group seated at table with special utensils.
Access No. 123091 | 1 min 36 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | B&W |
Man getting out of car and into wheelchair. Wheels himself into workshop where he repairs watches. WWI veteran Mr Edgar talks to Repatriation officer in garden discussing interest in hydroponics. Neighbours in street wave to each other. VS people in hospital.
Access No. 123092 | 2 mins 19 secs | 1960s | © NFSA | B&W |