We Built This City

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Resource MovingImage: Performance Recording
Title We Built This City
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Abstract/Description Archival recording of We Built This City. Melbourne's construction workers celebrate the 150th anniversary of the eight-hour day with stories from building sites, a rock'n'roll choir and a ballet for heavy machinery. Cast made up of CFMEU members and other related unionists and the Victorian Trades Union Choir. 5 mp4 clips, shot by Genevieve Picot, Tony Watts and Karin Altmann. All clips play twice, second time without sound 1. (CITYNEW-1) 109MB, 00:26:55 (actual clip length 00:13:27) 44g Drum Quartet – final night performance. Four drummers on the balcony of main Scienceworks building 2. (CITYNEW-2) 655MB, 02:39:29 (actual clip length 01:19:42) Entire show. Credits at 01:14:39 and run for 5 minutes. 3. (CITYNEW-3) 7.30MB, 00:02:03 (actual clip length 00:01:01) Program Identification for archival recording. Includes a dedication to the memory of Larry Knight, killed in the Beaconsfield mine collapse in 2006, and all those who have lost their lives in industrial accidents. 4. (CITYNEW-4) 648KB, 00:00:27 (actual clip length 00:00:13) Program Identification and copyright details, without the dedication included in clip3. 5. (CITY NEW-5) 8.49MB, 00:01:59 (actual clip length 00:00:59) Reversed footage of bulldozer sequence, so that balloons fly into metal box, dozer picks up box and reverses out.
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Date Created May 2006
Catalogue ID Melbourne Workers Theatre Digital Archive - HD2
Holding Institution Deakin University, Library
Language English
Medium Digital
Format 5x.mp4 files (543MB); .iso files (3.74GB)
Citation Tony Watts, Melbourne Workers Theatre, We Built This City, Deakin University, Library, May 2006
Resource Identifier 51472
Dataset AusStage