The Land (Federation Series)
2015
Computer Files, Websites
The Land is the first episode in a three-part series about the history of Australia's federation. In the winter of 1889, Sir Henry Parkes, the three-times premier of NSW, the grand patriarch with the big white beard, decides he will federate the colonies. But in these isolated regions separated by armies, train gauges, customs houses and with every capital setting its own time, it will take more than the grand vision of one elder statesman to create a nation. Though a constitution is written, the squabbling colonies find it impossible to agree. What is achieved in the first attempt is a national political map. Within these boundaries Australia's political existence would be wrestled into being "” but by the next generation. A Film Australia National Interest Program produced with the assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Copyright - 2011 National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Executive Producer: Sharon Connolly, Megan McMurchy Producer: Anna Grieve Director: Ian Munro Writer: Sue Castrique DOP/Cinematographer: Kim Batterham Narrator/Presenter: John Doyle Principal Cast: Leo McKern (Henry Parkes), Peter O'Brien (Alfred Deakin), Deborah Kennedy (Louisa Lawson), Richard Piper (Edmund Barton) (Voiceovers).
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Imprint:
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2015.
Collation:
1 online resource (streaming video file)
Notes:
Title from title frames.In Process Record.Originally produced by National Film and Sound Archive of Australia in 1998.In English
System details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language:
Undetermined
Index terms:
Australian and Indigenous StudiesK-12
BRN:
409814
Electronic access:
Access eFilm - A Kanopy streaming videohttps://www.kanopy.com/node/88282/external-image - Cover Image