Photographs and research material related to Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television program 'The Italians' ca. 1983-1985.

PXD 523
PXE 1387
ON 142

fonds

ca. 1983-1985

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Textual Records, Prints

909930

1 transparency slide - colour - 7 x 7 cm
57 sheets of negative strips - black & white, 2 colour - Kodak, Ilford; 35 x 20 cm each sheet
1 photocopy of drawing - hand-tinted watercolour, mounted on board - 43.5 x 35.5 cm
34 negatives - black and white - 10 x 10.5 cm each
36 photographs - Polaroid, colour - 10.5 x 9 cm each
139 photographs - black & white, mounted on cardboard - 40 x 50 cm or smaller
353 photocopies - black & white, on paper - 29.5 x 21 cm each
855 photographs - black & white - 20.5 x 26 cm or smaller

Over the last 200 years, 26 million Italians left their country in search of fortune abroad, the largest national diaspora in human history. Traditionally they migrated to America and to countries then undergoing a stage of rapid industrialization and rural development, and with a great need of unskilled and semi-skilled labour.
Italian migrants began arriving in Australia during the gold rushes of the 1850s and 1890s, and also during the twenties when the United States imposed a quota on their immigration. The largest immigration wave came after post war 1947, when the immigration policy in Australia brought about a radical reshaping of Australia’s ethnic composition.

Reference: ‘The Italians’ (Based on the ABC TV Series) by Cresciani, Gianfranco. (1985) Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Sydney.

9 boxes in total

The series and the book written by Gianfranco Cresciani traces the Italian migrant experience in Australia, the forces which spurred Italians to emigrate to the ‘Lucky Country’ and the reasons they do not emigrate any longer.

7 episodes/chapters: 1. ‘A Country of Emigrants’; 2. ‘Italians Discover Australia 1788-1900’; 3. ‘The Italian Presence 1900-1940’; 4. ‘Fascism and Anti-Fascism 1922-1940’; 5. ‘Italians and Australians at War 1940-1947’; 6. ‘Mass Migration 1947-1985’; 7. ‘Full Circle’.

PXE 1387 Box 1

Item 1
Stills copyright list including slate number and title of each still photograph

Item 2
92 Photographs – stills not used [Episode 2]

Item 3
90 Photographs – stills used Episode 2]


PXE 1387 Box 2

Item 4
109 black & white photographs - stills not used [Episode 2]

Item 5
109 photocopied and captioned pages of stills not used [Episode 2] (identical content to above)

Item 6
79 black & white photographs - stills not used [Episode 3]

Item 7
79 photocopied and captioned pages of stills not used [Episode 3] (identical content to above)


PXD 523 Box 1

Item 8
37 black & white photographs each mounted on cardboard, nos. 340-375 [Episode 3]

Item 9
232 photographs – stills used [Episode 3]


PXD 523 Box 2

Item 10
24 black & white photographs mounted on board [Episode 4]

Item 11
1 copy of a drawing hand-tinted with watercolour, mounted on cardboard. Signed ‘Calvert’ at bottom of page.

Item 12
1 copy of a woodcut print each mounted on cardboard


PXE 1387 Box 3


Item 13
27 black & white photographs - stills not used, with separate list of captions [Episode 4]

Item 14
27 photocopied and captioned pages of stills not used [Episode 4] (identical content to above), including 9 additional photocopied stills

Item 15
16 black & white photographs each mounted on cardboard [Episode 4]


PXE 1387 Box 4

Item 16
35 black & white photographs each mounted on cardboard [Episode 4]


PXE 1387 Box 5

Item 17
27 black & white photographs each mounted on cardboard [Episode 4]


PXE 1387 Box 6

Item 18
121 black & white photographs - stills used [Episode 5]

Item 19
20 black & white photographs - stills not used [Episode 6]

Item 20
6 black & white photographs - stills used [Episode 6]

Item 21
22 black & white photographs - stills used [Miscellaneous]

Item 22
Photocopies of photographic stills collected from various sources to be used in ‘The Italians’ [All episodes] Includes some related correspondence. (Sources include John Battye Library of Western Australia, James Cook University Townsville, La Trobe Library Melbourne, Mitchell Library Sydney, National Library Pictorial Section, John Oxley Library Brisbane, State Library of NSW, Australian War Memorial.)

Item 23
36 colour Polaroid photographs with hand-written captions of various individuals and locations in and around Eukey, Stanthorpe, Innisfail and Ingham, Queensland. (n.d., ca. 1980s) Includes pamphlet on the Eukey Sun Powered Complex owned by Ruth Cilento [Miscellaneous]

Item 24
1 black & white photograph of an aerial view of the Murchison P.O.W. Camp, 1942, with accompanying letter and description.


ON 142

item 25
1 4x4” colour transparency slide of bronze sculpture ‘Porcellino’ in front of the Sydney Hospital, Macquarie St, Sydney.

Item 26a-b.
53 negative proof sheets* [All episodes];sheets 1-24 and sheets 25-53

Item 27
12 5x4” negatives source: Mitchell library

Item 28
3 Photographs; 2 of Father Jerome Davadi, and 1 of site of his original vineyard (Donated to the ABC by Jean Harslett)

Item 29
2 negatives of La Riscossa Magazine, 20 June 1930

Item 30
2 colour negatives of a statue of Marconi

Item 31
6 negatives of ‘Manoora’

Item 32
9 4x5” negatives of Anti-Fascist posters

Item 33
6 negatives of the New Guard Rally

Item 34a.
1 copy of image of the New Guard Rally, mounted on board, Sydney Town Hall, 22 July 1931

Item 34
6 negatives of Eric Campbell

Item 35
2 negative proof sheets of War Memorial (Cresciani copies) [Episode 5]

Item 36
1 negative proof sheet of magazine article ‘Matteotti’ and Rando stills; 2 proof sheets of miscellaneous stills

Item 37
13 5x4” copy negatives ‘Andreallo negatives’[Episode 2]

Item 38
53 photo proof sheets* (of negatives, Item no. 26) with 7 additional enlarged images [All episodes]

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In copyright:
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