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Keith Gow |
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First invloved with the New Theatre movement in the late 1940s. Keith Gow was one of the three people who went on to form the Waterside Workers Federation Film Unit. He was the Unit's most experinced members, having worked on commercial feature films in a varirty of roles. His credits include being a propert man, special effects and in chrge of 2nd Unit filming on "Kangaroo". He also worked in Samo with Gary Cooper in a film called "Return to Paradise".
After the film unit was wound down in 1959, he went on to work for the Commonwealth Film Unit and later Film Australia.
He was an avid member of left film societies and was influenced by the writings of the Soviet school filmakers such as Eisenstein and Vertov. |
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journal - a Way of Being Engaged With The World Metro. 01-01-1993. pp.47-55 |
Peter Hughes
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The article looks at John Hughes's films from a critical persepective and contains an indepth interview with him explainf the motivations behind some of his ...[full record]
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book - An Australian Film Reader . 00-00-1985 |
A collection of articles exploring Australian film spanning the silent and early sound period; documentary work, commercial features from 1971 and independen...[full record]
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book - Australian Cinema: The First Eighty Years . 00-00-1989 |
Graham Shirley,
Brian Adams
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Brief mention of the work done by the Waterside Workers Film Unit.
Give us basic knowledge of the Australian film industry.
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chapter - The Documentray Film in Australia : Propaganda Then and Now . 00-00-1982. pp.142-145 |
John Hughes
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Essay on the propaganda film and the various forms it takes. Looks at Soviet and Nazi propaganda films and what the difference is between them and mainstream...[full record]
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