tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post2438861074653090737..comments2024-03-27T20:34:09.464+01:00Comments on zmkc: Goshzmkchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-706101796622588932012-12-09T00:09:20.407+01:002012-12-09T00:09:20.407+01:00Thank you, I will - I think I may have seen scraps...Thank you, I will - I think I may have seen scraps of it a long time ago, but never really paid attention.zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-86180638574271267582012-12-06T23:54:20.689+01:002012-12-06T23:54:20.689+01:00Without being a "Australian patriotic zealot&...Without being a "Australian patriotic zealot" either but with what I <i>know</i> is just the right amount of patriotism, I don't find this surprising when I think of masterly pieces that came in its wake. It was just 14 years later that the wonderful <i>The Sentimental Bloke</i> [56 mins.] was running, showing how huge technical problems – film reproduction for distribution for a start – were solved. <br /><br />Think of the great individual contributions by a number of Australian directors, creative effects people and performers ever since. In film, they have been truly the problem-solvers leading the way.<br /><br />No doubt every country could put together its own galaxy of stars in film creation [New Zealand, e.g., would stand up well per head of population, but then it always does in most things, he said grudgingly] but in early film there seemed to be the technical knowhow here to manage a task that was unbelievably labour intensive and must have paid terribly.<br /><br />It could have been done only with love of the art and the excitement of the possibilities of a whole new medium.<br /><br />Just watch it, if you never have. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbsXPiUkl-Y" rel="nofollow"><i>The Sentimental Bloke</i></a><br />…<br />Denis Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786035137418348609noreply@blogger.com