Updated 10 April 2003
DATABASES / DIRECTORIES / RESEARCH
MEDIA
The red star 
indicates a site that we think is of special interest or outstanding quality.
ScreenSound
Australia
- (formerly the National Film & Sound Archive)
in Canberra, dedicated to preserving Australia's audio-visual heritage.
It includes a terrific searchable database of the National Collection.
Australian
Soundtracks
- Dennis W. Nicholson's definitive resource with
comprehensive listings for hundreds Australian film and TV soundtracks.
AusFilms: Australian Films Database
Australian Television Memorabilia & Collectables
Bonza RMIT Film Research
A fantastic online resource about Australian film with tons of material about Australian films
of the 60s and 70s.
Bert Deling Interview
Joel Stern's Quicktime audio interview with Bert Deling on the Bonza RMIT site. One of the pioneers
of the Australian film renaissance in the early '70s, Deling talks about his film Dalmas (1973), Australian film
culture, the ongoing battle against conservatism, and the problems of film-making on LSD.
Killer
Koalas: Australian / NZ Horror Films - A History
- Robert Hood's overview of the horror genre downunder,
including historical essays and film lists.
Morning
Of The Earth
A brilliant new site chronicling Albie Falzon's classic surf-film, looking
at the movie, the music and much more.
The
Peter Weir Cave
- the great site by "Crazy" Dave Niicholson devoted
to Australia's most internationally successful film director.
Witzig
Films
Acclaimed film-maker Paul Witzig is one of the pioneers of the surf
film, whose credits including the classics EVolution, A Life In The Sun
and The Hot Generation, and he worked closely with bands like Tamam Shud.
Now he's on the web!
Captain Goodvibes' Unofficial World
One of the icons of Australia pop culture in the 70s, Captain Goodvibes (aka The Pig Of Steel) was the creation of Tony Edwards. The Goodvibes cartoons were regularly published in Australia's surfing bible Tracks, and their popularity led to the publication of books including The Whole Earth Pigalogue; the inimitable Captain (as voiced by Edwards) was also regular contributor to Double Jay in the late 70s.
Lily
Brett - In Full View
- the former Go-Set reporter, now a world-renowned
novelist, talks about her work.
Larrikin
Literature
- Perry Middlemiss' great site on Australian writers,
including many important authors of the '64-'75 period such as David Ireland.
London
OZ: A Rough Guide to OZ and Some Stuff Therein…
Nifty! Cover
scans and contents listings of every edition of the legendary underground
rag.
Adventures in Cybersound For
What It's Worth Ian's Transistor Radio Homepage
Triple
J 2SM What's
Rangoon To You Is Grafton To Me "Do
you realise that Bob Menzies now knows what really happened to Harold
Holt?"
Dr Russell McNaughton's site, documenting his PhD research on the history of radio and the related
media services of telegraphy, telephony, facsimile, television, photography
and cinema
- a great weekly music program presented by our
mate Steve Kernohan, on Stereo 974 in Melbourne The
Jingle Shrine
A wonderful ever-growing site with RealAudio sound
clips of Aussie radio commercials and jingles, mostly from the '70s, and
background information on the stations. Includes a clip of one of the
original 2JJ jingles, sung by Doug Parkinson.
Retrospectives
- the long-running weekly radio show hosted by
our friend John Broughton, broadcast on 3SER 97.7FM in Melbourne. Since
it began in 1988, John has interviewed international music stars like
Roger McGuinn, Ralph McTell, Ian McLagan and Ron Sexsmith, as well leading
lights of the Australian scene such as Renee Geyer, Jim Keays and Mike
Rudd.
Ian Malcom's collection of AM portable radios from Australian manufacturers, most of whom
disappeared from the market with the introduction of FM broadcasting in 1975.
- Australia's national yoof radio network
- An excellent page by the multi-talented Debbie Kruger, devoted to the station that ruled
the Sydney airwaves in the '70s.
The wonders of the Web never cease. This page
includes a downloadable MP3 file of Russell Guy's classic radiophonic
work, narrated by James Dibble, and first broadcast on Double Jay in 1978.
There is also a text transcription.
AUNTY JACK
- Foll's Aunty Jack page - includes .mpeg and RealAudio sound files
- Stephen McDonald's Aunty Jack page - includes .wav files of various AJ soundbites
- Richard Miles' excellent Aunty Jack / Grahame Bond'Ography
Australian
TV Archive
- Tom Bozic's excellent web archive contains hundreds of downloads of audio and video material from the history of Australian TV. You'll need to register to use the site, but it's well worth it, and once registered, you can also contribute to the site's growing list of reference articles or edit them directly online.
Crawfords
Australia
- the pioneering Melbourne-based production
house, famous as the makers of Homicide, Division 4, Matlock Police and The Sullivans
The Unofficial "Hey, Hey It's Saturday" Website
Number
96
Comprehensive pages documenting the pioneering
'sex and sin' soapie that shocked Australia in the early '70s
Robert's
Aussie Soap Archive
A comprehensive tour of long-gone Australian soap operas from the first
big success, the calm and rustic Bellbird, through to the bizarre contrivances
of Chances and everything in between.
The
Samurai
"Don't lie to us, old man!" If you grew up anywhere near a TV
in Australia the '60s you will surely remember this classic Japanese series,
the first Japanese TV show ever screened in Australia. It gained incredible
popularity in 1964-65 and its star Koichi Osi ("Shintaro")
was for a brief time one of the most popular TV personalities of the day
-- in fact his Australian promotional tour in 1965 drew crowds that rivalled
The Beatles! Researcher Nikki White has compiled an impressive
archive about the series, including informative essays on its historical and literary background and its
phenomenal popularity both in Japan and in Australia, which was
the only western country in which it was screened. We rate this as one
of the very best TV-related sites we've ever seen, and it also includes a
comprehensive feature on the cult '60s Japanese espionage series Phantom Agents.
DVDs of The Samurai are now vailable through Siren Video.
TelevisionAU
- Andrew Bayley's excellent site spans the history of Australian TV from its beginnings
to the present day, including special features like "Classic TV Guides"
which presents TV sample programs from the '50s to the '90s.
TV
EYE - Classic Australian Television
Another great site, celebrating the hits of Aussie
TV of the 60s and 70s, including Homicide, Division 4, Hunter and many
more.
The
World's Earliest Television Recordings - Restored!
OK it's not Australian, but this is a truly
outstanding site that documents an amazing chapter in birth of TV. As
early as 1927 John Logie Baird was not just transmitting live pictures
with his early version of TV -- incredibly, he was also able to convert
the video output into audio signals and record them. Some of Baird's priceless
"Phonovision" discs have survived and thanks to recent developments in
image processing software, British computer scientist Donald McLean
has been able to retrieve the signals stored on these discs -- the very
first "video" recordings ever made -- and restore them back to moving
video images. As Don justly says, these pictures rank with those of Armstrong's
first steps on the moon. A "must see" website.
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