Appearance

Few of us are happy about the way we look. We are either too short or too fat; our noses are too big or the wrong shape. As more people resort to surgery to alter appearance, this program talks to people about what they’ve done and the effect that it has had on their lives.

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Credits

producer

Eve Ash

director

Ted Emery

Duration

00:25:00:00

Production places

Australia

Production dates

1989

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

324572

Language

English

Subject categories

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Body image

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Surgery, Plastic

Short films

Short films → Short films - Australia

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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Australia, 1989

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