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Angels of War

Item number (ISN):

459997

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

459997

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

RONIN FILMS

Accession:

1983-0156

Media:

Film

Part:

2 of 2

Release date:

1983

Production credit:

editor, Stewart Young; photography, Dennis O'Rourke; sound recording, Gary Kildea; narration John Waiko; research, Hank Nelson

Distributor name:

Filmakers' Library Inc.

Description:

Documentary "capturing the experience of villagers who lived through the Papua New Guinea campaign". Forced to collaborate with the Japanese, Australians and Americans in turn, depending on the fortunes of war, "they speak passionately of the white man's promises, made to them in war and never kept in peace". The film contains numerous archival sequences on women fleeing from bombed villages as men are marched away by Australian troops, men collaborating with Japanese occupation forces being punished for it by Australians, General Douglas MacArthur coming ashore, Gary Cooper entertaining troops, etc. Raphael Oebari of Hanau "becomes the archetype of the 'Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel', famous worldwide as teh epitome of the black angel of mercy in teh war-torn New Guinea jungle" when he is photographed helping a blind Australian soldier. <54mn 27s>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. IDC made from PDC card.~2. Produced with the assistance of Air Niugini, Australian Film Commission, Australian National University, Australian War Memorial, Burns, Philp & Company, The Utah Foundation.

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Vault ISN:

397347

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8308-0007

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

620015

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8307-0109
8307-0110

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Restricted by creator/donor

Consultation copy number:

V1 8308-0007

Reproduction access:

with written permission of producers

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