Jane Tanner

Australia, 1987

Film
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Episode of Series “Cover to cover”.
Jane Tanner is a Melbourne-based illustrator of children’s books, best known for her illustrations in “Time for a Rhyme” and “There’s a Sea in my Bedroom”. She and Allan Baillie, who writes the text for children’s books, are interviewed by Trevor Lunn. Jane discusses her career, what she thinks makes a good picture book and displays examples of her work as she explains her working methods. She and Allan then discuss collaborating on books.

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Credits

director

Jeff Spencer

producer

Lily Steiner

production company

TV Ed Productions

Victoria. Ministry of Education

Duration

00:24:00:00

Production places
Australia
Production dates
1987

Appears in

Cover to cover

Group of items

Cover to cover

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

325189

Language

English

Subject categories

Crafts & Visual Arts → Illustration of books

Crafts & Visual Arts → Illustrators

Crafts & Visual Arts → Women artists

Literature → Children's literature, Australian

People → Tanner, Jane

Short films

Short films → Short films - Australia

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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