Living in Two Worlds | ABC-TV (Australia) | ACMI collection

Episode of Series “Face Australia”.
Looks at a suburban industrial “ghetto” in Wollongong which is made up almost entirely of migrants.

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Credits

producer

Ken Dyer

production company

ABC-TV (Australia)

Duration

00:30:00:00

Production places

Australia

Appears in

Group of items

Face Australia

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

016759

Language

English

Subject categories

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Australia - Emigration and immigration

Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Children of immigrants

Short films

Short films → Short films - Australia

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

U-Matic; Access Print (Section 1)

MOV file ProRes4444; Digital Preservation Master - overscan

MPEG-4 Digital File; ACMI Digital Access Copy - overscan

Collected

2 times

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