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Accession Number | F10571 |
Collection type | Film |
Measurement | 9 min 53 sec |
Object type | Interview |
Physical description | 16mm/colour (Eastman)/sound |
Maker |
Davis, Neil Brian Bradbury, David |
Place made | Australia: New South Wales, Sydney |
Date made | 1978 |
Access | Open |
Conflict |
Period 1970-1979 Indonesian Confrontation, 1962-1966 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial![]() |
Interview with Neil Davis for In the eye of a storm - Sydney Film 1
Neil Davis as a cameraman correspondent at the Cenotaph in Martin Place, Sydney, talks about leaving the Australian Broadcasting Commission and then working for Visnews. Gives his opinion of Gurkha troops as perhaps the best soldiers and relates a story of Gurkhas in action against the Indonesians in Borneo. The tradition behind the Gurkha's main weapon the Kukri knife. The British employing head hunters in Borneo during the Second World War to hunt Japanese troops. Scenes of David walking through streets of Sydney. Davis's voice over about his philosophy of life and the cultural shock of returning to a big Australian city since living in Asia. Take 4. Davis opinions on the ex President of Indonesian Sukarno and Davis coverage of riots in Indonesia. Comments on the Australian journalists killed in Timor.
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