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Echoes of the past.(Film)

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| November 01, 2003 | Mcdonald, Neil | COPYRIGHT 2003 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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 ...

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