A poetic debate between Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson ran over several weeks in the Bulletin magazine of the 1890s. The subject of the debate was the Australian bush. Paterson, who spent most of his life in more affluent surroundings than Lawson, saw the bush as a place of romance and adventure. Lawson saw only the hardship and struggle. To earn themselves some money they convinced the Bulletin to print the poems they each wrote disclaiming the other’s point-of-view. The story is filmed entirely in contemporary settings with Paterson and Lawson, in their period costume, as the only references to the time-frame of the Bulletin articles.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
36052
Language
English
Subject categories
Adaptations
Documentary
Documentary → Documentary films - Australia
Literature → Australian literature - Film and video adaptations
Literature → Lawson, Henry,1867-1922
Literature → Literature
Literature → Poetry
People → Lawson, Henry,1867-1922
People → Paterson, A. B. (Andrew Barton), 1864-1941
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)
MOV file ProRes4444; Digital Preservation Master - overscan
MPEG-4 Digital File; ACMI Digital Access Copy - overscan