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411891
  • Title
    Don Reid reading the John Millett script in verse of 'QF1 - the longest air route under the sun'
  • Call number
    MLOH 26
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    25 October 1982
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    411891
  • Issue Copy
    Digitised
  • Physical Description
    2 audiocassettes (38 min.) - 10 × 7 cm, 4 mm tape
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    John Millett, poet, has contributed poetry to numerous Australian periodicals and published a number of collections of poetry including, 'Calendar Adam' (1971), 'The silences' (1973), 'Love tree of the Coomera' (1975), 'West of the Cunderang' (1977) and 'Tail arse Charlie' (1982). He has been associated with 'Poetry Australia' for many years and has been Managing Editor since 1988. He wrote a script in verse for a proposed film about the Sydney to London, London to Sydney QANTAS flight, QF1.
  • Scope and Content
    'QF1, Night Mail', a recording of Don Reid reading the John Millet script in verse of 'QF1 - the longest air route under the sun' MLOH 26/2 (Side B: 18 min.)
    MLOH 26/1 Side A (21 min.): No summary available
    MLOH 26/1 Side B (n/a): No summary available
    MLOH 26/2 Side B (18 min.): No summary available
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  • Access Conditions
    Restricted: Prior approval is required for access. Any requests for access will be referred to the Head of Manuscripts., Expiry Date: 2029-05-19
  • Copying Conditions
    In copyright:
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder.
  • Description source

    The description of this material has been supplied from the Oral History Digitisation Program, undertaken 2014 to 2017, of the Library's oral history collections.
  • General note

    Tapes accompany papers of John Millett located at MLMSS 3161 ADD-ON 1675.
    MLOH 26/1 Side A: Recorded on 25 October 1982
    MLOH 26/1 Side B: Recorded on 25 October 1982
    MLOH 26/2 Side B: Recorded on 25 October 1982
    MLOH 26/1 Side A: Tape could not be auditioned, estimated duration is a guess only.
    Some of this material has been provided to the Library with limited documentation. If you can provide, or require, more information about this material, please enquire through the Library's Ask A Librarian service.
  • Contributing Creator

    Other creators: Reid, Don (speaker); Millett, John, 1921-2019 (author)
  • Conservation note

    MLOH 26/1 Side A: Tape would not fast forward past 00:14, and would only rewind to 00:07.
    MLOH 26/1 Side B: Tape would not fast forward past 00:14, and would only rewind to 00:07.
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