More Winners : Mr. Edmund (Captioned)

Episode of Series ‘More Winners”.
12 year old Cheryl Williams befriends Mr. Edmund, who is one of the rather impoverished guests at her mother’s boarding house. Mr. Edmund has a dream that one day he will sing at the Sydney Opera House. Cherry has a dream too, that one day she will be a lawyer. Cherry’s mother believes these are foolish dreams and urges the two of them to “grow up”. Mr. Edmund, Cherry and her younger brother Sam save old Mrs. Finkel from a bag snatcher. She is grateful and when she hears of Mr. Edmund’s dream. Mrs. Finkel insists on hiring the Opera House Concert Hall for him for one night.

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Credits

director

George Whaley

producer

Anthony Buckley

production company

Australian Children's Television Foundation

Duration

00:48:00:00

Production places

Australia

Production dates

1990

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Group of items

More Winners [Series]

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ACMI Identifier

302417

Language

English

Audience classification

G

Subject categories

Childrens Films

Closed captioning

Sound/audio

Captioned

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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Australia, 1990

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