Australian cinematography

The book The Shadowcatchers is an entirely volunteer project from the members of the Australian Cinematographers Society. It shows the history of Australian cinematography from the silent films of pre-WWI to the present day. The book is full of profiles of some of the best of Australia\u27s cameramen and women, including examples of them working on location. Listen in ful

The Waterside Workers Federation Film Unit: the forgotten frontier of the fifties

This paper, written for the Fifth International Documentary Conference, Brisbane, 1997, offers a reappraisal of the historical status of Australian documentary, and, more generally, suggests the value of a revised view of Australian Cinema. In particular, Ansara and Milner look at the work of the Waterside Workers’ Federation Film Unit in the context of the rapid expansion of Australian film-making which took place in the 1950s. At the time, the ‘wharfies’ Film Unit opened a new frontier in documentary film-making in Australia, an endeavour which, in retrospect, provides a source of reflection upon our own documentary practices of today