This Meeting's Speaker
The Next General meeting is on Monday 4th March 2024 at 10 am
March Speaker 
Chris Long
Melbourne’s Earliest Films
Chris worked for 40 years in documentary broadcasting with ABC radio and elsewhere as well as in film and sound archives. He has published extensively on early Australian films. During the 1990s he published an ongoing series of articles in the magazine Cinema Papers dealing with Australia’s earliest films.
Chris will screen a selection of early films from his collection of Melbourne and Camberwell. For those of us who have watched Melbourne and its suburbs change including its housing, street lighting, shops, dress, public and private transport, the presentation will be one of nostalgia and fascination.
March Speaker Summary
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When Peter Gurry spoke to us about his New Guinea experience many of us realised that we knew very little about New Guinea. This is the case despite the fact that it is our closest neighbour and Australia has had a considerable interest in the country for years. Of course, we are of the generation who had relatives who served in New Guinea during the Pacific part of the Second World War. Peter was engaged as a school principal for a government school in Madang. Living in such a different society from Victoria was a personal challenge not just for Peter, but also for Mary and two young sons Anthony and Michael. The challenges started with lost luggage by the airline to finding suitable house help and settling into living in the tropics. We quickly formed the opinion that the New Guinea experience was worth the effort for the Gurry family. Thank you Peter for a fascinating talk with some great accompanying pictures. And we appreciated your sartorial elegance once again! Special mention to those members who went to the trouble of wearing a tie, it made Peter feel right at home. |
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