Place | Asia: Vietnam, South Vietnam, Saigon |
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Accession Number | F10554 |
Collection type | Film |
Measurement | 10 min 44 sec |
Object type | Interview |
Physical description | 16mm/colour (Eastman)/sound |
Maker |
Revitt, John James (Jim) Bradbury, David |
Date made | 22 February 1978 |
Access | Open |
Conflict |
Period 1970-1979 Vietnam, 1962-1975 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial![]() |
Interview with Jim Revitt (Frontline out takes)
Jim Revitt as a correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) Radio News and Television News and Radio Australia describes being the only ABC reporter in South Vietnam; utilising Visnews cameramen; Neil Davis as one of the greatest cameramen and correspondents of the Vietnam war; task of reporting in South Vietnam; lack of ABC resources; ABC policies guiding reporters and talks [current affairs] department; no in-depth interpretive reporting carried out; ABC policy of reporting singular events, without context; frustration of not being able to report the progress of the war; how Australian public opinion would have been more informed by interpretive reporting; lack of management awareness; most feedback came from his parents; hope for future war reporting, futility of war; ABC policy change toward the end of the war, and lack of ABC equipment in Saigon.
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