Film-Work

Synopsis

During the height of the Cold War, the Waterside Workers' Federation Film Unit produced eleven (11) films for several trade unions on political and industrial issues. Independent film-makers worked with them to develop critical dialogue from one generation of concerned film-makers onto another. FILM-WORK looks at sequences from 4 of these films and interviews some of their makers, raising a diversity of issues pertinent to current debates in film, history and politics. The 4 films that are looked at are PENSIONS FOR VETERANS (1953, NSW Branch, WWF), THE HUNGRY MILES (1954, WWF), NOVEMBER VICTORY (1955, WWF), and HEWERS OF COAL (1953, Miners Federation). PENSIONS FOR VETERANS covers the issue of the need for pensions to be given to workers who have worked on the waterfront all their life. THE HUNGRY MILES shows the strength of the workers, the union and its democracy. HEWERS OF COAL is about the coal miners and their struggle to get better working conditions and pensions.

Main Cast

Norma Disher

Self

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Jerome 'Jock' Levy

Self

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Keith Gow

Self

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	John Hughes
Production	Producer	John Hughes
Writing	Writer	John Hughes
Camera	Director of Photography	Margot Nash
	Camera Production Assistant	Glenys Page
Editing	Editor	John Whitteron
Sound	Sound	John Whitteron
	Music	Andrew Duffield
Visual Effects	Animation	Lisa Parish Ray Argall
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