N.L.T. Productions Pty. Ltd. photographs and actors' profiles, ca.1955-1971

PXA 1637
SLIDES 227
ON 498

fonds

ca.1955-1971

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Architectural and Technical Drawings, Textual Records, Ephemera, Clippings

909714

approx. 1320 photographic prints - silver gelatin - 24 x 35 cm. or smaller
3 transparencies - colour - 7 x 7 cm. (mount)
29 negatives - b&w - 6 x 6 cm.
1 folder of textual material including 1 architectural drawing - printed, typescript, newscuttings

N.L.T. Productions Pty. Ltd., an Australian film and television production company, was founded in 1961 by Jack Neary, Bobby Limb and Les Tinker. Its productions include the feature films Wake in Fright and Squeeze a Flower, TV series The Rovers, Woobinda-Animal Doctor, and If These Walls Could Speak, and live TV productions Bobby Limb’s Sound of Music, Dave Allen’s Tonight Show, Barry Crocker’s Sound of Music, Don Lane’s Tonight Show, John Laws’ Tonight Show, Divorce Court, The Unloved, The Barry Creyton Show, Dita, Letter Charades, and The Tommy Hanlon Show. A subsidiary company, N.L.T. Artists Pty. Ltd, brought artists from overseas and managed others in Australia. Source: company press release, May 1970, ML file

PXA 1637

Approx. 1100 female, male and child actors' profiles and photographs, from agencies including International Casting Service, Griffin Agency, Telecast, Phyllis Savage Agency, Central Casting, Vaude Video, and others.

Approx. 75 photographs of actors who are unidentified or identified illegibly; with agencies' publicity material profiling multiple artists, not filed in the main alphabetical sequence.

Approx. 145 photographs: publicity photographs for performers and entertainers including Helen Zerefos, Duke Ellington, Avon Long, Lucia Hawkins, Levern Hutcherson, Marian Henderson, dancers Issy Dy and Greg Sims, The Grimaldis, The Austins, Mike Monroe, Mitzi McCall and Charlie Brill, Freddie & the Dreamers, Dick Weston & “Aunt Martha” (puppet), Anni Anderson & Maurice Dean, Johnny Pace & Harriet [Littlesmith], Evie Pikler, Rolf Harris, performers from various Barry Ashtons Productions, The Reno Brothers, Sheila Scott, and other unidentified artists; William McMahon and Gough Whitlam with chat show host; shots of Squeeze a Flower, The Rovers, The Explorers (Marionette Theatre of Australia) and other unidentified productions; Dynamo Moscow and Australia vs Greece soccer photos; portrait of J. Connell, President; photoprints of three frames from Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon; Sydney Morning Herald Photo Sales photoprints of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith.

1 folder manuscript and printed material, including cardboard newspaper blocks of Duke Ellington; correspondence and cast details of The Girl from Peking; correspondence, casting notes and typescript synopsis regarding “Mace”, a television series; one architectural plan showing alterations and additions to Neary-Limb Productions building at 28 Alfred Street, North Sydney, by Davey, Brindley & Vickery, architects, 14/3/1961; programmes and invitations; newscuttings.

PXA 1637/Box 1
Female actors A-M

PXA 1637/Box 2
Female actors N-Z, Male actors A-B

PXA 1637/Box 3
Male actors C-H

PXA 1637/Box 4
Male actors J-R

PXA 1637/Box 5
Male actors S-Z, Child actors A-Z

PXA 1637/Box 6
Unidentified and illegibly identified actors; agency files presenting more than one actor; performers and entertainers; miscellaneous photographs including production shots; Soccer photographs (Dynamo Moscow, Australia vs Greece); manuscript and printed material

SLIDES 227

3 colour transparencies in 7x7cm. mounts: unidentified interior production shots.


ON 498

29 6x6cm. b&w negatives: Squeeze a Flower production shots

This pictorial material is part of the N.L.T. Productions Pty. Limited - Records, ca.1955-1971, at MLMSS 3425

Individual actor profiles are arranged in three groups: Female, alphabetical; male, alphabetical; child actors, alphabetical. Unidentified photographs, and files presenting more than one actor under one casting agency, are filed separately. Other performing artists (e.g. musicians, dancers, entertainers), where clearly identifiable as such, are filed separately.

Restricted: - - Not to be issued

Copyright status:: In copyright - This collection has multiple rights owners