Writings by Blain
- Component identifier:
- Series 2
- Content Summary:
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There are typescripts with varying titles including 'Know your ABC', 'The ABC of it', and 'A life for the ABC', which are drafts for Blain's major work Life with Aunty. Other writings include scripts for radio plays and feature programs, including 'In my fashion', a biography of Ernest Dowson, and 'Quality Street', a biographical sketch of Ernest Dowson. Other titles are 'Tasmania's lost world', 'Recording an opera', 'Dinner with the duke', 'Secret weapon', 'Music has charms', 'Decca's Traviata', 'Slow sleeper'and 'Rouben Mamoulias', a brief biography and full filmography.
'Documentary records' reviewed by Blain in Electronics Australia (1964-66) are included here.
- Immediate source of acquisition:
- The papers were donated by Ms Jenny Blain, the wife of Ellis Blain, in 1994.
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Access and use
- Parent Restrictions:
- Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2672118).
- Parent Terms of Access:
- Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
- Location of this collection:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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