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THERE IS A STORY that my friends at the State Library solemnly assure me is absolutely true, about a supposed researcher for a documentary who rang to ask if they had any colour film of Captain Cook.
"No, there is no colour film of Captain Cook."
"What about black-and-white film?"
I'm certain that had there been movie cameras in the eighteenth century, this kind of researcher would have submitted footage from the Bougainville or La Perouse expeditions if the Captain Cook footage proved unsatisfactory. Indeed, Frank Hurley recut sequences he shot on Mawson's first Antarctic expedition and incorporated them into his film of the explorer's second ...