Interview with Jim Revitt (Frontline out takes)

Place Asia: Vietnam, South Vietnam, Saigon
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
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Description

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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