Interview with Neil Davis for In the eye of a storm - Sydney Film 1

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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
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Description

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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