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Bread and dripping [videorecording]

Contributor(s): Series: A Woman's Word (television program)Description: 1 videodisc (DVD)(68 mins.) sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inOther title:
  • Working up - women at work in Australia [Other title]
  • A Woman's Word 8 September 1988 [Other title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.40994 20
Production credits:
  • Filmmakersfor "Bread and Dripping", Wendy Brady, Donna Foster, Margot Nash, Elizabeth Schaffer, Vic Smith.
  • "Working up - women at work in Australia" ; producers, script, Maureen McCarthy, Chris Warner; director, Chris Warner. Produced In Melbourne, Victoria by Trout Films in association with The Schools Commission Special Projects Program and The Women's Film Fund, 1979.
Summary: "Bread and Dripping" investigates how women's unwritten history is passed down through memories. Shows women talking about their experiences of the Great Depression in Australia. Covers such areas as: Aboriginal women; paid and unpaid work; mothering; marriage; women's participation in the political struggles of the 1920's and '30's. Uses archival footage.Summary: "Working up - women at work in Australia", is a documentary profile of nine working women. The women - a printing compositor, a flying instructor, an actor/singer, a computer systems analyst, a process worker and shop steward, a stock drover, a surgeon, an apprentice mechanic and a union organiser - are shown both at work in their occupations and talking intimately about themselves, their work and their lives.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
DVD DVD Jessie Street National Women's Library 305.40994 BRE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library 61843

"Bread and Dripping" and "Working up - women at work in Australia" recorded off-air on 8 September 1988 on S.B.S.

"Bread and Dripping" and "Working up - women at work in Australia" are feature films for "A woman's word" programme of 8 Sep 1988 (separate DVD of the latter held by JSNWL)

Filmmakersfor "Bread and Dripping", Wendy Brady, Donna Foster, Margot Nash, Elizabeth Schaffer, Vic Smith.

"Working up - women at work in Australia" ; producers, script, Maureen McCarthy, Chris Warner; director, Chris Warner. Produced In Melbourne, Victoria by Trout Films in association with The Schools Commission Special Projects Program and The Women's Film Fund, 1979.

"Bread and Dripping" investigates how women's unwritten history is passed down through memories. Shows women talking about their experiences of the Great Depression in Australia. Covers such areas as: Aboriginal women; paid and unpaid work; mothering; marriage; women's participation in the political struggles of the 1920's and '30's. Uses archival footage.

"Working up - women at work in Australia", is a documentary profile of nine working women. The women - a printing compositor, a flying instructor, an actor/singer, a computer systems analyst, a process worker and shop steward, a stock drover, a surgeon, an apprentice mechanic and a union organiser - are shown both at work in their occupations and talking intimately about themselves, their work and their lives.

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