Archival Film Project, 1984-88

Component identifier:

Series 22

Content Summary:

From 1974 onwards the Australia Council supported an Archival Film Project which recorded on film interviews with leading writers, composers and artists. Copies of the film were deposited in the National Library (later the National Film and Sound Archive). In 1984 Murdoch was engaged by the Australia Council as a researcher for the Project and carried out 25 interviews. The interviewees included Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Joan Hammond, Judith Wright, Manning Clark, Hal Missingham and Gwen Harwood. Murdoch produced a directory of arts on film in 1988.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The Murdoch papers were purchased from James Murdoch in 1991. Further papers were received in 2010.

Names:

James Murdoch

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