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OK for Sound (1928-1948)

The new technology that made talking pictures possible revolutionised the industry and brought forth new stars.
Series : Celluloid Heroes, The | Episode : 2 | Year : 1995 | Total Duration : 56 Minutes | Producer : Anthony Buckley
Director : Robert Francis |
B&W MS man with headphones listening to gramophone and making adjustments. CU spools inside gramophone spinning. CU interior of kinetephone, MS inventor testing kinetephone, CU monitor image on kinetephone and GS kinetephone. B&W sequence of shots from early Australian films.
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Access No. 135461 | 2 mins 16 secs | 1920s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
CU movie projector and ECU of flashing light from lens. The beginning of the ÒTalkiesÓ era. B&W still of Regent Cinema and still of Lyceum. Dissolve to projector panning down to gramophone record and CU to Jazz Singer record. B&W footage from ÒJazz SingerÓ with man kissing mother.
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Access No. 135571 | 53 secs | 1920s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
MS map of Australia torn down to reveal man announcing to camera that Australia has entered the talkie production field. B&W footage from Melbourne producer Dick Harwood's ÒSpur of the MomentÓ. CU flyer for ÒOut of the ShadowsÓ advertised as Australia's first talkie. Dissolve to B&W footage from film framed by flyer.
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Access No. 135572 | 31 secs | 1920s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
MS producer Frank Thring speaking at the premiere of the B&W film ÒDiggersÓ and high shot of milling crowds at night outside Hoyt's Plaza, Melbourne. B&W footage from ÒDiggersÓ showing slapstick scenes with soldiers. B&W MS unruly food queues during the Depression dissolving to various stills of families during the Depression. High shots of long food queues.
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Access No. 135575 | 54 secs | 1920s | Melbourne, VIC, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
B&W MS ornate theatre curtains and high shot of curtains rising as orchestra rises up from pit. WS conductor leading musicians. B&W sequence of stills from shows with orchestra in foreground. B&W footage from Frank Thring's remake of the silent classic ÒThe Sentimental BlokeÓ.
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Access No. 135578 | 1 min 24 secs | 1920s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Colour WS of His Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne. B&W still of the Theatre taken from the same angle and another still of His Majesty's after fire being made into make-shift studio. CU B&W koala logo for Frank Thring's ÒEFFTEEÓ logo. Split screen with MS footage of Frank Thring on one side and the Hoyts insignia on the other. Insignia dissolves into still of Union Theatre's Stuart Doyle, Thring's enemy.
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Access No. 135580 | 30 secs | 1920s | Melbourne, VIC, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Painting and series of colour and B&W stills of interiors and exteriors of theatres. CU B&W still of Frank Thring and superimposed headline regarding Thring selling Hoyts to US giant Fox and his acquisition of ÒThe Sentimental BlokeÓ. CU colourful Fox poster and B&W footage of Athol Tier as Napoleon entering on wooden horse and performing skit from Efftee film. CU on Tier's ÒperformingÓ knees.
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Access No. 135581 | 44 secs | 1920s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
WS Efftee's film with show number on stage with women in Marie Antoinette outfits playing violins. Pair of performers tap dancing in police outfits; male singers around pianist on baby grand piano. Colour high angle shot then MS of former Efftee employee John Murray walking to centre stage in empty theatre. B&W stills of Murray in the 1930s standing at control board. MS present day interview.
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Access No. 135582 | 57 secs | 1930s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
MS interview with former Efftee employee John Murray talking about Efftee's invention of their own clapper board. B&W footage of actor yawning and clapper board in front of him and B&W sequence of films showing use of Efftee's modified style of clapper board. Segments include ÒTatler News No. 2Ó.
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Access No. 135605 | 42 secs | 1920s, 1990s, | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
B&W footage of Thring production ÒHis Royal HighnessÓ starring comedian George Wallace as the bumbling king. High pan of rooftops and colour poster superimposed over B&W street scenes and other footage from ÒHarmony RowÓ starring George Wallace and child star Bill Kerr. Present day colour interview with Bill Kerr talking about his childhood acting experiences, auditions and experiences with George Wallace.
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Access No. 135606 | 2 mins 6 secs | 1930s, 1990s, | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
B&W footage of comedian George Wallace working in grocery store and B&W footage of George Wallace film showing speedboat in water. Colour footage with Clive and Phyllis Cross talking about the Smith & Cross studio recorder which they invented while working at Cinesound in the 1930s. Overlay B&W photo of Arthur Smith. B&W footage featuring Dad having his tooth etc. pulled from ÒOn Our SelectionÓ using the Cinesound system. CUs of the sound system.
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Access No. 135607 | 1 min 19 secs | 1930s, 1990s, | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Colour footage with Clive Cross talking about developing the first sound recorder with his father Bert Cross with B&W still of Bert Cross filming. MS B&W footage of Ken Hall entering frame. B&W footage from ÒOn Our SelectionÓ featuring Dad, Dave, Mum and Joe. B&W still of Doyle & Cross zooming in. B&W footage and bush sounds of ÒBushland SymphonyÓ inserted by Ken Hall which opened ÒOn Our SelectionÓ.
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Access No. 135612 | 1 min 14 secs | 1930s, 1990s, | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Colour CU interview with Clive Cross talking about problems using generators out in the bush. B&W still of cast and crew on ÒOn Our SelectionÓ and MS Phyllis & Clive Cross. B&W stills of sound equipment and sound crew on location. B&W footage of early Cinesound Productions logo and still of their building in Bondi Junction, Sydney. CU colour poster for ÒThe Squatter's DaughterÓ.
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Access No. 135613 | 58 secs | 1930s, 1990s, | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Colour LS to Bill Kerr in church and poster for ÒThe Silence of Dean MaitlandÓ superimposed on screen. B&W church scene footage from the film and zoom to Kerr holding photo of himself as a child which got him the part of Dean Maitland. B&W footage from the film of Kerr as a child with the priest and scenes between the minister and the seductress Alma which shocked the censors at the time.
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Access No. 135614 | 1 min 50 secs | 1930s, 1990s, | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
B&W footage of man dancing with small girl and VS with Roy Rene as Mo in ÒStrike Me LuckyÓ. Combination of animated pictures and Mo performing song. B&W stills of Ken Hall on set with crew and filming from roof of Cinesound Productions van, on dolly and with actors. B&W footage from ÒDad and DaveÓ.
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Access No. 135615 | 1 min 25 secs | 1930s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
B&W newsreel footage of the State Theatre at the premiere of ÒThe Silence of Dean MaitlandÓ with the title advertised on the exterior. VS black tie audience and guests. MS Raymond Longford at microphone and WS Ken Hall meeting guests in State Theatre foyer. B&W sequence of stills of empty theatre overlaid with news clippings about the merger of Hoyts and Greater Union theatres.
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Access No. 135616 | 32 secs | 1930s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
CU sequence of colour posters for American movies including ÒA Star is BornÓ, ÒShall We DanceÓ, ÒElephant BoyÓ, ÒConfessionÓ, ÒDark JourneyÓ and ÒThe Toast of New YorkÓ. CU B&W split screen stills of producers Frank Thring and Charles Chauvel dissolving to portrait stills of silent movie makers Raymond Longford and Beaumont Smith
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Access No. 135617 | 59 secs | 1930s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
B&W footage from Beaumont Smith's film ÒHayseedsÓ with scenes of women marching in bush reminiscent of the Hitler Youth and group of people at ticket booth with man buying tickets from clerk. Scenes of a priest leading a prisoner flanked by police down a corridor in ÒThe Man They Could Not HangÓ. B&W still of director Longford looking at camera.
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Access No. 135618 | 1 min 4 secs | 1930s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
B&W montage of shots of harbour, CU printing press, newspaper headlines, CU still of producer Frank Thring overlaid with headlines about Thring forcing NSW Government to hold an enquiry into the film industry and to hold a quota for local films. CU B&W still of Doyle with headlines about his opposition to quota. B&W footage of Premier Stevens who implemented a 5% quota. CU B&W still of Stevens.
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Access No. 135619 | 33 secs | 1930s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
B&W footage of crowds throwing streamers at passenger liner overlaid with headline about producer Frank Thring's departure to Hollywood to set up deals for Efftee Productions. CU colour interview with man explaining Thring's sudden hospitalisation and death from cancer of the throat. WS Thring in darkened theatre and B&W still of his face superimposed on screen.
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Access No. 135620 | 39 secs | 1930s, 1990s, | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Zoom in to B&W drawing of National Studios by Premier Fred Daniel and businessmen in Botany, Sydney. B&W still of Daniel and businessmen overlaid on drawing. Sequence of B&W photographs of studio and offices which later became known as Pagewood Studios. B&W footage from ÒThe Flying DoctorÓ and CU poster. CUs of actors Charles Farrell and Mary McGuire in film.
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Access No. 135621 | 39 secs | 1930s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
B&W footage of ÒRangle RiverÓ with American lead Victor Jury singing and in whipping scene. B&W footage of Triton Studios with line of people queuing outside and B&W stills of film-maker Charles Chauvel and with his wife Elsa. B&W footage from Chauvel's silent movie ÒGreen HideÓ featuring his wife Elsa. B&W footage from Chauvel's first talkie ÒIn the Wake of the BountyÓ starring Errol Flynn. Documentary sequences in Tahiti.
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Access No. 135622 | 1 min 27 secs | 1930s | Australia; Tahiti | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
B&W footage from ÒThe Birth of AustraliaÓ with convict scenes and several scenes from Chauvel's ÒForty Thousand HorsemenÓ with B&W stills of actors Grant Taylor, Betty Bryant and Chips Rafferty overlaid on footage showing cavalry scenes, trench warfare and humourous scenes. Horsemen riding across dunes singing ÒWaltzing MatildaÓ. B&W still over fighting footage of Universal boss Herb McIntyre who gave Chauvel the financial backing for the film.
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Access No. 135623 | 2 mins 52 secs | 1940s | Middle East | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
B&W still of Hollywood executive Phil Riseman and montage of newspaper headlines about Riseman's challenge to the NSW film quota law. B&W footage of Premier Stevens. Track through archives overlaid with newspaper headlines about battle over free trade. B&W Cinesound logo and newsreel footage of crowds watching American actress Helen Twelvetree take to podium carrying toy koala and speaking in microphone then joined by Ken Hall. CU B&W still of Twelvetree.
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Access No. 135624 | 1 min 4 secs | 1940s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
B&W footage from film with American actress Helen Twelvetree in bus shouting to man in car driving alongside bus. B&W footage of horses racing in Hall film ÒThoroughbredÓ. Footage from ÒOrphan in the WildernessÓ showing kangaroo and joey in idyllic bush scene, shooters and the rise of the star Chuck the Kangaroo. VS Chuck in circus, escaping the ring and with boy. Colour overlay of poster.
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Access No. 135625 | 2 mins 4 secs | 1930s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
B&W still of Ken Hall with woman and B&W photographic sequence of actors and actresses. WS colour contemporary footage of actress Shirley-Ann Richards greeting make-up man Alex Ezard. B&W footage of Richards in film with her screen father. Richards and Ezard reminiscing with B&W footage from ÒTall TimbersÓ. Pan across scene of trees falling in domino effect. B&W still of special effects man Alan Kenyon briefly overlaid on screen.
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Access No. 135626 | 2 mins 59 secs | 1930s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
B&W footage of actress Shirley-Ann Richards with actor Cecil Kelloway in film ÒIt Isn't DoneÓ and with US actor Lloyd Hughes in ÒLovers and LuggersÓ. Richards with actor Peter Finch in ÒDad and Dave Come to TownÓ. CU colour interview with Richards and scenes from film. CU colour poster for Cinesound overlaid with still portrait of Stuart Doyle. CU newspaper article about Stuart Doyle's resignation and footage of replacement Norman Rydge.
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Access No. 135627 | 2 mins 22 secs | 1930s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
B&W footage of film crew on outdoor set with Ken Hall in foreground. B&W footage of fourth in Dad & Dave series ÒDad Rudd MPÓ. MS Bert Bailey as Dad Rudd giving patriotic speech. B&W newsreel on outbreak of war and footage of soldiers marching. B&W footage of airborne bombers attacking ship Matzui and ship on fire (dramatic commentary).
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Access No. 135628 | 1 min 35 secs | 1940s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
1942 B&W newsreel footage of war-torn New Guinea shot by cameraman Damien Parer. VS soldiers in jungle, explosions, frontline troops firing weapons and lines of soldiers along tracks. Still of Parer overlaid on screen and footage of bearded Parer shooting footage with New Guinean native watching him. B&W footage of interview to camera with Parer.
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Access No. 135629 | 49 secs | 1940s | New Guinea | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
1942 B&W newsreel footage of war-torn New Guinea shot by cameraman Damien Parer. Pan around soldiers gathered around grave sites. Parer's B&W newsreel footage used to make ÒKokoda Front Line!Ó with natives (fuzzy-wuzzy angels) carrying wounded soldiers on stretchers and well-known footage of blindfolded soldier being led across stream by mate. CU Parer superimposed over footage addressing camera about the dangers to Australia from the Japanese.
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Access No. 135630 | 1 min 49 secs | 1940s | New Guinea | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
B&W Cinesound propaganda film Ò100,000 CobbersÓ followed by explanation of ÒcobberÓ appearing on screen followed by recruitment poster. Footage from film featuring Grant Taylor and Shirley-Anne Richards. B&W footage from ÒSoldiers Without UniformsÓ with newsreader's emotional commentary as men work in foundry made by Charles Chauvel, shot by George Heath and scored by Linley Evans.
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Access No. 135631 | 1 min 10 secs | 1940s | New Guinea; Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
B&W footage from Chauvel's ÒWhile There is Still TimeÓ featuring Chips Rafferty, Peter Finch and Jean Hatton. B&W high shots over city of Sydney with overlaid stills of documentary film-maker John Greerson and PM Robert Menzies. Footage of Sydney buildings shot from Botanic Gardens, VS fountain in Hyde Park, Town Hall clock tower, QVB, tilts to architecture (incl. T&G building, Astor, MCA, Town Hall), sculptures, trams and LS to Sydney Harbour Bridge and ferries leaving Circular Quay.
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Access No. 135632 | 1 min 14 secs | 1940s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
B&W footage of victory celebrations with people throwing streamers, kissing, running and jumping in streets and B&W still overlays of film producers Ralph Foster and Leigh Robinson. Footage from Robinson's early colour film ÒNamatjira the PainterÓ showing outback landscape, camels and Namatjira painting with painter Batherbie. B&W still of Stanley Hors, replacing Ralph Foster as producer.
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Access No. 135633 | 1 min 46 secs | 1940s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
B&W footage of Hors produced film ÒSchool in a MailboxÓ with small children collecting mail from postman in car. B&W footage from ÒJourney of a NationÓ with young boy in rural scenes, trains and B&W still of documentary film-maker John Hire superimposed on screen. B&W footage of car through countryside with VS rural scenes and footage of logging in Murray Valley.
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Access No. 135634 | 1 min 33 secs | 1940s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
B&W footage of movie premiere. Duke & Duchess receiving Ken Hall and wife, Norman Rydge, Nick Perry, Ron Randall and Muriel Steinbeck. B&W footage from Hall film ÒSmithyÓ starring Randall and Steinbeck. Various scenes with flying, ticker-tape parade, wedding etc. B&W still of Hall.
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Access No. 135635 | 3 mins 23 secs | 1940s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
B&W footage from ÒThe OverlandersÓ about a mammoth wartime cattle drive across the NT in the face of Japanese invasion. B&W still of director Harry Watt over cattle stampede scene and sequence of stills showing filming process. Game of two-up with colour poster overlaid on screen. VS scenes with Chips Rafferty and cattle drive. Rafferty shooting crocodile.
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Access No. 135636 | 1 min 48 secs | 1940s | NT, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
B&W footage from ÒEureka StockadeÓ gun battle scenes directed by Harry Watt. VS empty and ailing Pagewood film studios. B&W footage from ÒAlways Another DawnÓ and scene with Bud Tingwell and Muriel Steinbeck. B&W footage from ÒBush ChristmasÓ starring Chips Rafferty with child cast shot in mountain landscape.
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Access No. 135637 | 1 min 28 secs | 1940s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
B&W footage from ÒSons of MatthewÓ produced by Charles & Elsa Chauvel showing soldiers marching overlaid with colour poster. Domestic scene with Michael Pate and Ken Wayne. Mountain climbing scenes in Southern Queensland wilderness. Colour interview with Pate. Sequence of B&W stills taken during filming. More footage and final scene from film. Stills from program as closing credits roll.
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Access No. 135638 | 5 mins 1 sec | 1940s | Qld, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
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