Guide to the Maslyn Williams Map Collection, ca. 1935-1962

 

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Summary

Collection number:
MFC 35
Creator:
Maslyn Williams, Ronald (Ron)
Extent:
12 items
Language:
Multiple languages
Preferred citation:
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of map item], Maslyn Williams Map Collection, National Library of Australia, [item number]'.
Availability:
Available
Access conditions:
Available for reference. Not for loan.

Background

Biographical / Historical:

{"persname":["Frank Coffey","Frank Hurley"],"corpname":["National Studios","Cinema and Photographic Branch","Australian Information Bureau","Canadian Film Board"],"content":["Journalist, filmmaker and writer. Robert Ronald Maslyn (Ron Maslyn) Williams was born in England in 1911. In the 1920s, he moved to Australia where he grew up in the New England and Southern Highlands districts of New South Wales. He studied at the Conservatorium of Music in Sydney and worked as a journalist prior to a career in filmmaking. In 1935 Williams joine","\u003cspan class='corpname'\u003eNational Studios\u003c/span\u003e, assisting","\u003cspan class='persname'\u003eFrank Coffey\u003c/span\u003e. With the Studio's closure in 1938, Williams joined Australia's first government filmmaking unit: the Commonwealth Government's","\u003cspan class='corpname'\u003eCinema and Photographic Branch\u003c/span\u003e. In 1940, he joined the Official War Film and Photographic Unit as a writer-producer and served under","\u003cspan class='persname'\u003eFrank Hurley\u003c/span\u003e in the Middle East. He transferred to the","\u003cspan class='corpname'\u003eAustralian Information Bureau\u003c/span\u003e in New York in 1945 and then to the","\u003cspan class='corpname'\u003eCanadian Film Board\u003c/span\u003e in 1946."]}

{"subject":["ethnographic films","phosphate industry"],"geogname":"Territory of Papua and New Guinea","content":["Williams made films in Europe and Australia gaining several awards including a gold medal at the Venice Bienalle. He was Head of the PNG Division of the Film Unit from 1955, his documentary work included","\u003cspan class='subject'\u003eethnographic films\u003c/span\u003e made in the","\u003cspan class='geogname'\u003eTerritory of Papua and New Guinea\u003c/span\u003e. In 1962, he ceased filmmaking and turned to writing. He became the author of books on Indonesia, the Philippines, Cambodia and China and also published a history of the","\u003cspan class='subject'\u003ephosphate industry\u003c/span\u003e, and four novels. Williams' autobiography, His mother's country (1988), won the Fellowship of Australian Writers Christina Stead Award in 1988 and the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction, 1989. Williams died in Bowral, New South Wales, in 1999."]}

Immediate Source of Acquisition:

Acquired by the National Library of Australia from Maslyn Williams in 1978.

Access and use

Conditions Governing Access:
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/917881).
Conditions Governing Use:
Some of the items within this collection, including some that have been made available as digitised images, are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.
Preferred citation:
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of map item], Maslyn Williams Map Collection, National Library of Australia, [item number]'.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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