Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia - Audiovisual
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ANU Archive Item Open Access Film footage of ships, ocean conditions, islands, men swimming on ship, sailboats, surfingWaterside Workers' Federation of Australia (1890-1993)ANU Archive Item Open Access May Day 1966Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia (1890-1993)Film may be two separate May Day events spliced together.ANU Archive Item Open Access Children's party at CairnsWaterside Workers' Federation of Australia (1890-1993); Producer: Kanimbla Social Club; Photographer: Don BarnesAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that this film recording may contain images, voices and names of people who are deceased. -- "The excited chatter and laughter of the 60 children of the Mona Mona mission school resounded in the seamen's mess of the Kanimbla yesterday afternoon. The Seamen's Union members of the ship were giving their annual Cairn's children's part, and the boys and girls, aged from five to 14 years, enjoyed to the maximum the huge balloons, squeakers, jazz caps and abundant party fare. Each boy received a gay shirt and each girl a purse, comb, handkerchief and mirror. Union members put on the party with the permission of Captain O. K. Snowball and McIlwraith McEacharn Ltd. and decorated the mess with flags. While the children enjoyed the novelty of seeing over their first ship, they formed a most animated group for photographs to be taken. The headmaster of the Seventh Day Adventist Mona Mona mission, which is near Kuranda (Mr G. J. Dawson), his assistant Miss W. M. Gillam, and junior teacher Miss J. Laverton, accompanied the children." The Cairns Post, 16 July 1954, page 8.ANU Archive Item Open Access WWF Film News No.1(1985-10-31) Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia (1890-1993); Director, writer and producer: Abraham Jerome (Jock) Levy (1916-2016); Director, writer and producer: Keith Gow (1921-1987); Director, writer and producer: Norma Disher (1922-); Narrator: Jock LevyA newsreel shot by the Waterside Workers Federation Film Unit about the 1956 Margins Dispute. -- ACTU Institute website.ANU Archive Item Restricted Not only the need(1985-10-31) Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia (1890-1993); Australian Council of Trade Unions (1927-); Director and producer: Abraham Jerome (Jock) Levy (1916-2016); Director and producer: Keith Gow (1921-1987); Director and producer: Norma Disher (1922-); Writer: Clem Millward; Narrator: Leonard TealeA short documentary highlighting the lack of affordable and decent housing in 1950s Australia. -- ACTU Institute website.ANU Archive Item Open Access The hungry miles(31/10/1985) Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia (1890-1993); Director, writer and producer: Abraham Jerome (Jock) Levy (1916-2016); Director, writer and producer: Keith Gow (1921-1987); Director, writer and producer: Norma Disher (1922-); Narrator: Leonard TealeA passionate survey of the struggles and achievements of the Waterside Workers Federation including some striking scenes of the depression (reconstructed by the WWF Film Unit with amateur actors), showing the impact of the economic hardships of the 1930s on the union and its members. -- ACMI.ANU Archive Item Open Access November victory(31/10/1985) Waterside Workers? Federation of Australia (1890-1993); Director, writer and producer: Abraham Jerome (Jock) Levy (1916-2016); Director, writer and producer: Keith Gow (1921-1987); Director, writer and producer: Norma Disher (1922-); Narrator: George Simpson LittleProduced by the Waterside Workers Film Unit, the film charts the successful November 1954 waterside workers strike against ship owners and the Menzies Federal Government.-- ACTU Institute website.ANU Archive Item Open Access Wharfies: A History of the Waterside Workers FederationWaterside Workers' Federation of Australia (1890-1993); Director and producer: Elisabeth Knight; Script: Keith Gow; Presenter: John Sheerin; Editor: Wayne Le Clos; Cinematographer: Jan Kenny; Sound: Rob StadlerThis film develops the history of the Waterside Workers' Federation (WWF) in the context of Australian political and social history. Wherever possible, archival footage has been used, going back to the trenches of World War I, and the general strike of 1917. Later footage is drawn from documentaries made in the 1950s by the WWF Film Unit. Dramatic reconstruction of events using professional actors is also used. Former wharfies, with memories back to the 1920s, appear in the film, recalling experiences of waterside work, life and politics of the WWF.ANU Archive Item Open Access Four's a crowd(1985-10-31) Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia (1890-1993); Director, photographer and editor: Keith Gow (1921-1987); Director, photographer and editor: Abraham Jerome (Jock) Levy (1916-2016); Director, photographer and editor: Norma Disher (1922-); Script: Keith Gow; Script: Hugh MasonProduced by the Waterside Workers Film Unit, Four's A Crowd is a slapstick comedy that highlights the negative effect of bad behaviour by individual workers on the collective union as a whole. The film illustrates how this bad behaviour creates a false impression of waterside workers on bosses and the wider public through the media. The Film Unit's Jock Levy plays each of the archetypal workplace villains - 'Glass Arm Harry', 'Tiddly Pete', 'Nick Away Ned' and 'Ron the Roaster'. Apart from a voiceover by Leonard Teale and a musical score, the film is silent in terms of dialogue and location sound. The film features a union song sung by Dick Hackett. According to author L. Milner, the film was made to counter mainstream press attacks on maritime workers.-- ACTU Institute website. -- Directors, photographers, editors, Keith Gow, Jerome Levy, Norma Disher; script, Keith Gow, Hugh Mason.ANU Archive Item Open Access Pensions for veterans(1985-10-31) Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia (1890-1993); Director, writer and producer: Abraham Jerome (Jock) Levy (1916-2016); Director, writer and producer: Keith Gow (1921-1987); Director, writer and producer: Norma Disher (1922-); Narrator: Abraham Jerome (Jock) Levy (1916-2016)Produced by the Waterside Workers Film Unit (Sydney Branch), the film depicts the 1953 Waterside Workers campaign to win pensions for veteran waterside workers. The film shows the hardship of both life on the docks, and even greater hardship in retirement as workers are discarded without a pension, plunging them into poverty, illness and insecure shelter. -- ACTU Institute website.ANU Archive Item Restricted MLF - Multilateral ForceWaterside Workers' Federation of Australia (1890-1993); DEFA Studios; Director and writer: Joachim Hadaschik (1933-2018); Writer: Hans Oley; Writer: Bodo Schulenburg (1934-2022); Music: Kurt GrottkeThe film attempts to expose the efforts of West German ultras in the Bonn government to equip the Bundeswehr with nuclear weapons. To this end, the country is to be established as a multilateral nuclear force. The film explains the dangers this plan poses to the existence of the German nation and to reunification. The Moscow Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and the resistance movement of West German anti-nuclear activists promise to avert this threat.--DEFA website.ANU Archive Item Restricted Click go the shears: a folk song(1985-10-31) Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia (1890-1993); Link Films; Director: Abraham Jerome (Jock) Levy (1916-2016); Director and editor: Keith Gow (1921-1987); Editor: Norma Disher; Singer: Cedric McLaughlin and The Link Singers; Artist: Harry Reade; Artist: Clem MillwardA highly stylised humorous treatment of the famous Australian ballad, using a minimum of animation. Sung by Cedric McLaughlin and the Link Singers. -- ACMI.ANU Archive Item Restricted My old black billy(1985-10-31) Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia (1890-1993); Peter Hamilton Productions; Director: Keith Gow (1921-1987); Actor: Abraham Jerome (Jock) Levy (1916-2016)The song of the swagman who intends to "stick to me sensible, indispensable, old black billy", sung by male voices and illustrated by shots of the swagman's life. Arranged and sung by The Ramblers. Cast features Jock Levy. -- ACMI.ANU Archive Item Open Access A question of health?(1985-10-31) Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia (1890-1993)A short film about Bankstown and its need for a sewerage system for its growing population.ANU Archive Item Restricted Ellis Blain's guests, No. 236: Tony and Betty AmbatielosWaterside Workers' Federation of Australia (1890-1993); Australian Broadcasting Commission; Speaker: Ellis Blain (1914-1979); Speaker: Tony Ambatielos (1914-1995); Speaker: Betty Bartlett-Ambatielos (1917?2011)ANU Archive Item Open Access Voice of the Countryside: Talk No. 50Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia (1890-1993); Communist Party of Australia; Speaker: J. W. (Joe) Bailes (1903-2001); Speaker: Bob WilkieJ. W. Bailes interviews Bob Wilkie regarding the P. J. Adams oil tanker dispute. Broadcast 8-13 December 1962.