Interview with Neil Davis for In the eye of a storm - TAS Film 5 Slate 21

Accession Number F10580
Collection type Film
Measurement 10 min 40 sec
Object type Interview
Physical description 16mm/colour (Eastman)/sound
Maker Davis, Neil Brian
Bradbury, David
Place made Australia: Tasmania, Sorell
Date made 1978
Access Open
Conflict Period 1970-1979
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Description

Take 21. Neil Davis as a cameraman correspondent is asked about premonitions of his own death [sound cut 33sec]; confident that he would survive even when he was severely wounded in action as well as when he was a young man suffering from Polio Mellitus; personal faith a belief in reincarnation as result of living in Asia and as the reason for not fearing death; on being born into the Anglican faith but refusing to be confirmed; asked why he now accepts reincarnation as an explanation of life after death; [sound cut 21 sec]; Davis "You only fear death if you feel that's the end." [sound cut 41 sec]; Takes 22-24 funeral procession at a church and silent scenes of Hobart including the ABC building; Take 25 Davis outside the Gordon Highlander Hotel, Sorell recounts the story of how his Great Grandfather a journalist and runner died outside the hotel after stopping for a beer after his weekly 30 mile run. [original sound missing for this film; sound complied from surviving edit track]

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