Collection 1: Arts Council of New South Wales records, 1944-1995

MLMSS 9005/Boxes 1-33
MLMSS 9005/Boxes 34X-45X
VT 1685-VT 1703, VT 3158-VT 3160, VT 3167

sub-fonds

1944-1995

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Moving Images, Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Objects, Clippings, Photographs

133081

9.06 metres of textual material (33 boxes and 12 outsize boxes)
4 film reels
19 videocassettes - 2 in., U-matic (BVU), EIAJ Open Reel (J Standard)

Arts Council of New South Wales records, 1944-1995. The collection relates to the arts sector in New South Wales, including metropolitan and regional arts tours and school performances sponsored by the Arts Council of New South Wales. Material includes correspondence, notes, reports, newscuttings, scrapbooks, annual reports, theatre programs and playbills, photographs, motion pictures, video recordings and sound recordings.

BOX 1
Newscuttings concerning Corroboree, 1951; Ronne Arnold Modern Dance Company, 1968; general newscuttings concerning Arts Council of New South Wales activities, ca. 1964-1972; regional arts, 1979

BOX 2
Records including correspondence, itineraries, notes, print advertising, photographs and budgets. Material relates to Bennelong Players; Wayne Roland Brown; Bull n Bush Show Tour; Bushwackers; The Club; Jan Carter; Dance Company of NSW; Leila Blake in Feminine Plural; Dale Woodward Theatre of Puppetry; Dirty Dicks Elizabethan Banquet Show; Bob Fillman; The Grand Adventure; ca. 1976-1978

BOX 3
Facilities and floor plans for regional venues, ca. 1978; a folder of miscellaneous theatre programs, exhibition catalogues, playbills and black & white photographs, 1953-1978

BOX 4
Contracts relating to Doolan; Beethoven & Bach; Bennelong Players; Wayne Roland Brown; The Bandels; The Bard’s Banquet; Bull & Bush Show; Jan Carter; The Club; Contemporary Saxaphone Quartet; Dance Company of NSW; Dirty Dicks; Bob Fillman; Koalaroo; Kemps Jig; The Grand Adventure; Mike McClellan; Moose Malone & Country Casanovas; New England Ensemble; Sleuth; The 20’s and all that Jazz; Dale Woodward; New England Ensemble; Stax of Sax; Australian Dance Theatre; Koalas Kids and Kangaroos

BOX 5
4 British Drama League trophies: The Harry Tighe Cup for Best Individual Acting, 1934-1966; Nicholas Cup for Diction, 1950-1966; Fay Compton Challenge Cup, 1938-1966; Best Supporting Player, 1956-1966

BOX 6
Records concerning school performances, including a list of non-government infants and primary schools in Sydney and Sidetrack Theatre’s school tours, 1981; teacher’s notes, 1981; school comments on tours, 1978-1981

BOX 7
Records including correspondence, itineraries, performance confirmation sheets, notes, promotional material, photographs and budgets. Material concerns Norman Berg Puppets and Puppetry, 1981; The Octaves, 1981; Modern Mime, 1979; Fontegard, 1979; Alex Hood, 1979; Dance Concert Limited, 1979; The Bushranger, 1980; Polyglot Puppets, 1979; Jenny Hope, 1981; and Dale Woodward, 1979. Also included are lists of school shows; lists of schools in NSW; school tour print requisitions, 1981; the Ministry of Cultural Activities annual report, 1971 / 72; theatre programs, playbills, and exhibition catalogues, 1978-1981

BOX 8
Records including a scrapbook of newscuttings relating to the Trinidad Steel Band, 1975; a scrapbook of newscuttings relating to Dance Company of NSW performances of The Rainmaker, 1975; newscuttings concerning the Queensland Ballet, 1976; Amral’s Trinidad Cavaliers Steel Band, 1976; Old Tote Tour, 1969; Out of the Crocodile Tour, 1969; Barrie Ingham, 1969-1971; theatre programs and playbills, ca. 1975

BOX 9
Records including correspondence, itineraries, tour reports, performance confirmation sheets, notes, promotional material and budgets. Material concerns The Bushwackers Band, 1978; Bull N Bush, 1977; Leonard Teale performing While the Billy Boils, 1978; The Grand Adventure, 1978

BOXES 10-11
Records relating to tours, including income and expenditure statements, weekly statements of receipts, tour manager’s correspondence, daily reports, budgets, contracts, itineraries, notes, performance confirmation sheets and newscuttings. Tours include Travelling North, 1981; Human Veins Dance Theatre, 1981; 20’s and all that Jazz, 1978; Mr Jupiter’s Children’s Theatre: Journey to the Glass Wall, 1981; More than a Sentimental Bloke, 1981; Pariah Dog, 1980; The Larrikins, 1980

BOX 12
Records relating to the Arts Council of New South Wales Summer School 1981, and the Flexitime tour, 1980. Records include correspondence, enrolment forms, notes, and course programs, income and expenditure statements, reports, budgets, contracts, itineraries, notes and performance confirmation sheets. Also includes general newscuttings relating to the arts, 1981

BOXES 13-14
Records relating to tours and school performances, including correspondence, income and expenditure statements, reports, budgets, contracts, itineraries, notes, and performance confirmation sheets. Tours include While the Billy Boils, 1979; Jim Stoppard, 1981; The Whittle Family, 1979; Norman Berg, 1981; Dirty Dicks, 1977. Also includes newscuttings concerning Flexitime, 1980; Bedroom Farce, 1980; general newscuttings relating to the arts, 1980, and tour comments, 1980-1981

BOXES 15-16
Records relating to tours, including correspondence, income and expenditure statements, reports, budgets, contracts, itinerary, notes, and performance confirmation sheets. Tours include Sleuth, 1978; Leila Blake in Feminine Plural, 1979; Malambo Latino, 1979. Also includes newscuttings concerning While the Billy Boils, 1979; High School Drama Festival, 1978; Swap Shop and Dramatic Societies, 1979-1980; Bunratty Castle, 1979

BOXES 17-18
Records relating to tours and school performances, including correspondence, income and expenditure statements, reports, budgets, contracts, itineraries, notes, and confirmation of performance sheets. Tours include Bunratty Castle, 1979; Moose Malone, 1978; The Bard’s Banquet, 1977; Mike McClellan, 1978; Sidetrack Theatre, 1981; Book Book Theatre Company, 1981; Flamenco Laberinto, 1980. Itineraries for The 20’s and all that Jazz, The Bushwackers, While the Billy Boils, Mike McClennan, Sleuth, 1978

BOX 19
Records concerning the Arts Council of New South Wales Summer School 1980, including correspondence, enrolment lists, notes, promotional material and reports; newscuttings concerning The Whittle Family 1979; Lelia Blake in Feminine Plural, 1979; and Common Thread tapestry, 1981-1982. Also includes five purchase order books, 1980-1982

BOX 20
Records relating to school tours, including itineraries, correspondence, reports, and confirmation of performance sheets. Tours include The Bandels, 1980; Jim Stopford’s Reptiles of Australia, 1980-1981; The Book Book Theatre Company, 1981; Mr Jupiter’s Children’s Theatre, 1981; Jan Carter, 1981; Blinky Bill, 1979-1980

BOXS 21
Newscuttings concerning Bull N Bush, and Dirty Dicks 1977; The Bushwackers, 1978; The 20’s and all that Jazz, 1978

BOX 22
Newscuttings concerning Arts Council of NSW activities and touring productions, August 1977- February 1979

BOX 23
Newscuttings concerning Arts Council of NSW activities and touring productions, 1970 and May 1977-September 1977; The Bard’s Banquet, 1977; Mike McClellan, 1977

BOX 24
Records including correspondence, transcripts, minutes of meetings, annual reports, bulletins, exhibition catalogues, theatre programs, newscuttings and black & white photographs. Material concerns the history of the Arts Council of NSW and Dorothy Helmrich; transcripts of interview with Gordon Horswell, Gertrude Langer, Douglas Dundas, 1979; Annual General Meeting, 1952; annual reports, 1952-1954, 1958, 1977; Queensland Division, 1963-1974; Arts Council bulletins, ca. 1964-1972 [incomplete]

BOX 25
Scrapbook and loose newscuttings concerning Arts Council of NSW activities and touring productions including Yeomen of the Guard, 1957
Scrapbook and loose newscuttings concerning Arts Council of NSW activities and touring productions including Corroboree, 1950

BOX 26
Scrapbook and loose newscuttings concerning Arts Council of NSW activities and touring productions including Peter Scriven’s Puppets, Pygmalion, Beth Dean, and the Melbourne Ballet Guild, 1955

BOX 27
2 scrapbooks of loose newscuttings and 6 black & white photographs concerning Arts Council of NSW activities and touring productions including Peter Scriven’s Puppets, 1954 and 1956

BOX 28
Scrapbook of newscuttings concerning Arts Council of NSW touring productions and lunchtime concerts, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Australia’s Children’s Theatre, The Sydney Opera Group, Twelfth Night and Charley’s Aunt, 1956

BOX 29
Scrapbook of newscuttings and black & white photographs concerning Arts Council of NSW activities and touring productions, including Bodenweiser Ballet, Love From a Stranger, The National Opera Company, Corroboree, 1953-1954

BOX 30
Scrapbook of newscuttings and black & white photographs concerning Arts Council of NSW activities and touring productions, including Bodenweiser Ballet, Let’s Make an Opera, The Polish-Australian Ballet, Replica of the Crown Jewels exhibition, 1951

BOX 31
3 scrapbooks of newscuttings relating to the Northside Arts Festival, 1963 and 1965
Publicity material including colour and black & white photographs relating to Leila Blake in Feminine Plural; The 20’s and all that Jazz; Mike McClellan; Geraldine Doyle; The Bushwackers; Grand Adventure; Bull N Bush; the Whittle Family; Malambo Latino; ca. 1975-1979
44 slides and 1 audiotape relating to the Century of Sound Exhibition, 1978

BOX 32
Records concerning the history of the Arts Council and Dorothy Helmrich, 1944-1981. Records include notes, correspondence, transcripts, reports, newsletters, an exhibition catalogue, and black & white photographs

BOX 33
Arts Council of Australia (N.S.W. Division) annual reports, 1954-55, 1958-1960, 1963-1967, 1973-1974; Arts Council of New South Wales annual reports, 1984, 1986-1995; photocopies of the Art Council Review, October 1945, January 1947, January 1948, January 1950
Miscellaneous print material including Arts in Schools, October 1974
The Arts Council of New South Wales Ltd, Memorandum and Articles of Association, 1976

BOX 34X
2 large scrapbooks of newscuttings concerning Arts Council of NSW activities and touring productions, including Dial M for Murder, Henry V, An Evening with Dickens, The Shifting Heart, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, 1960-1962

BOX 35X
Large scrapbook of newscuttings concerning Arts Council of NSW activities and touring productions, including Rigoletto, Cosi Fan Tutte, 1957-1958

BOX 36X
2 large scrapbooks of newscuttings concerning Arts Council of NSW activities and touring productions, including Odd Man In, Rigoletto, Paul Grinwis Ballet Company, 1959-1962

BOX 37X
Large scrapbook of newscuttings relating to Gilbert and Sullivan Go Kosher, 1974; folder of loose newscuttings relating to High School Drama Festival, 1973, and weekend workshops, 1973-1975

BOX 38X
Graphic designs used for print advertising; lettrasets etc., no date

BOX 39X
Large scrapbook of newscuttings relating to Summer School, 1967; Taste of Honey, 1966; Q Theatre, 1965; Queensland Ballet, 1965; art exhibitions, 1965

BOXES 40X-41X
2 large scrapbooks of newscuttings concerning Arts Council of NSW touring productions, including the Engel Family; the Arts Council Travelling Theatre for Young Children; Don Pasquale; June Bronhill; Paint Your Wagon; The Owl and the Pussycat; and The Twilighters; 1966-1967

BOX 42X
Large scrapbook of newscuttings concerning Arts Council of NSW activities and touring productions, including La Traviata, and The Cocktail Party, 1962

BOX 43X
Large scrapbook of newscuttings concerning Arts Council of NSW activities, reviews, etc., 1965

BOX 44X
Large scrapbook and loose newscuttings concerning Arts Council of NSW activities and touring productions including La Boheme and The Sentimental Bloke, 1964

BOX 45X
Large scrapbook and loose newscuttings concerning Arts Council of NSW activities and touring productions including the Sound of Murder, and the Young Elizabethan Players, 1963

MOTION PICTURE AND VIDEO RECORDINGS

2 inch videotapes:

The Hollow Crown (VT 1685)
Trinidad Cavaliers (VT 1686)
Sleuth (VT 1687)
Trinidad Cavaliers (VT 1688)
Baranggay Dancers (VT 1689)
Trinidad Cavaliers (VT 1690)
Mike McClellan (VT 1691)
Golberg and Solomon promotion (VT 1692)
Flexitime (VT 1693)
Malambo Latino (VT 1696)
Malambo Latino (VT 1697)
Golberg and Solomon promotion (VT 1698)
Royal Shakespeare Company, Hollow Crown (VT 1700)


U-matic (BVU):

20’s and all that Jazz (VT 1699)
Divas of the Golden West (VT 1694)
20’s and all that Jazz (VT 1695)


EIAJ Open Reel (J Standard):

John Bell"s Hamlet, reel 1 (VT 1701)
John Bell"s Hamlet, reel 2 (VT 1702)
John Bell"s Hamlet, reel 3 (VT 1703)


Film reels:

Ballet dancers rehearse, director views set design (VT 3158)
New Orleans ad, Graham Bell’s tour of NSW advertisement (VT 3159-VT 3160)

Housed separately from the records at MLMSS 9005. For enquiries about this collection please contact the Manuscripts section.

SOUND RECORDINGS
73 audiotapes of advertisements broadcast on commercial radio to promote Arts Council of New South Wales touring productions, ca. 1975.
Not to be issued - master tape only. For access please contact the Curator of Oral History.

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