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Manuscript Name | Papers relating to Film Australia/Pram Factory |
Manuscript Number | MSS 322 |
Last Updated | June 2021 |
Extent | 4 boxes + 7 AV boxes |
Location | Special Collections, UNSW Canberra |
Abstract | Original interviews, research, correspondence, scripts and photographs, copies of organisational papers, reviews, clippings and transcripts relating to the Pram Factory theatre group and the making of the 1994 documentary film |
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This collection comprises original research and content collated by directors Anna Grieve and James Manche during the making of the film ‘Pram Factory’, a 1994 Film Australia documentary on the Australian theatre group. It includes research notes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, organisational papers, scripts, interviews and photographs taken by Ponch Hawkes, Lloyd Carrick and others.
1970-1994
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pram_Factory
The Pram Factor was an alternative theatre venue established in Carlton, Victoria in 1970. It became a base for Australian intellectual, artistic and political figures, most significantly The Australian Performing Group (APG). The resulting counter-cultural artistic community launched a new wave in Australian performing arts as well as the careers of many actors, writers, directors, musicians, artists, designers, poets, photographers, circus performers and filmmakers including Helen Garner, David Williamson, Max Gillies and Bruce Spence. The Pram Factory venue was demolished in 1980 but it’s associated performing groups continued into the late 1990s. Film Australia created the documentary film ‘The Pram Factory’ (Anna Grieve & James Manche, Australia, 1994) discussing the history and impact of the community with its original members.
References:
https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/research/digital-studio/projects/the-pram-factory
http://shop.nfsa.gov.au/pram-factory
Access: Open Access
This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed below. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy.
Copying: Copying of material for private study and research is approved
Papers relating to Film Australia / Pram Factory, Special Collections, UNSW Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, MSS 322, Box [Number], Folder [Number].
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Further material relating to Pram Factory is located in the Papers of Max Gillies (MSS 265) , the Papers of Phil Motherwell (MSS 168), the Papers of John Romeril (MSS 054), the Papers of Lex Marinos (MSS 327), the Papers of Graeme Blundell (MSS 097) and the Papers of Peter Corrigan (MSS 245)
Australian theatre – 20th century
Theatre - Victoria – History
La Mama Theatre – History
Australian Performing Group – History
Documentary programs – Australia
Anna Grieve
James Manche
Ponch Hawkes 1946-
Lloyd Carrick 1944-
Pram Factory (Carlton, Vic)
Australian Performing Group (APG)
La Mama
Film Australia
Actors
Playwrights
Authors
Photographers
Directors
Folder 1
Early research notes
Folder 2
Early research notes
Folder 3
Archival photocopies, includes : ‘Betty Can Jump’ - letter to collective by Helen Garner; essay written by Lindsay (Linzee) Smith - ‘Comedy, Revolution and a Theatre of the People’; ‘Proscenium Arch Blues’ by Jack Hibberd; interview with John Romeril conducted by Jim Davidson, 11 August, 1978; Dimboola - play to film; ‘Collectives: Can’t Live With ‘em, Can’t Live Without ‘em’, Robin Laurie; interview with David Williamson conducted by Jim Davidson, 3 May 1979; ‘On not being treated like a minority’ by John Romeril and reviews
Folder 4 [not listed]
Folder 5
Photocopies of reviews, including papers relating to the Australian Performing Group (APG) and the Festival of Perth, 1970
Folder 6
Photocopies of clippings
Folder 7
Photocopies of clippings
Folder 8
Photocopies of clippings
Photocopies of flyers for ‘Brainrot’, Christie in Love plus Mrs Thally-F’, ‘Chicago Chicaga’, ‘Norm and Ahmed’
Folder 9 {para bold}
Photocopies of organisational papers, Australian Performing Group (APG), includes : chart of ‘The Group’; constitution; internal bulletins; notes by Bill Garner; correspondence Bill Garner/Margaret Williams, 8 March 1972
Folder 10
Photocopies of organisational papers, Australian Performing Group (APG), includes : correspondence Max Gillies /Margaret Williams, 7 May 1972; ‘Workings of the APG”; minutes; Basic Submission - Workshop Committee, 19 June 1972
Folder 11
Lists, archival photos and posters
Folder 12
Photocopies : Interview with Jack Hibberd by Libby Booth; photograph of queue for ‘The Removalists’, ‘Marvellous Melbourne’ and ‘Moving In’; Archival Listing; ‘General Areas for each Interviewee; Listing and notes, Latrobe Library
Folder 13
Archival notes and lists of holdings at the Academy Library, Australian Defence Force Academy [Special Collections, UNSW]
Folder 14
Archival notes and lists of holdings at the Academy Library, Australian Defence Force Academy [Special Collections, UNSW]
Folder 15
Archival notes on ‘Gillies Report’ cassettes, Performing Arts Museum, Australian Performing Group (APG) personnel
Correspondence, including Ruth Maddison / Anna Grieve, James Manche, Lloyd Carrick /Anna Grieve, James Manche, Ponche Hawkes / Anna Grieve, James Manche, 14 March 1993
Folder 16
Correspondence between Andrew Bell and Anna Grieve
Photocopies of film reviews - 1965-1977; ‘Women’ Theatre Groups’ by Charlotte Rea; ‘Speculations on Radicalism, Sexuality and Performance’ by Richard Schechner; ‘The Living Theatre in Brazil’ by Paul Ryder Ryan; ‘The Ridiculous of the Theatre’ by John Timlin; ‘La Mama, Cafe La Mama, La Mama etc.’; ‘The Open Theatre’
Folder 17
Photocopies of manuscripts, including ‘He Wasn’t Entirely Himself’ by Jerzy Grotowski (part only); ‘A Myth Vivisected - Grotowski’s Apocalypse’ by Konstanty Puzyna; ‘The Babe Among the Gladdies is Perambulating Nicely, Thankyou’ by J.H. Davidson; ‘The Actor’s Involvement : Notes on Brecht’ an interview with Joseph Chaikin by Erika Munk; Dave Jones talks with David Williamson; ‘The Axeman Cometh’ - a review of Dalmas by John Tettensor; reviews - ‘Apostasy’, Blue Collar’ and ‘Woyzeck’; interview between Bert Deling and Phil Noyce (‘Pure Shit’); Bert Deling (Cinema Papers, April) plus film review; production report ‘Don’s Party’; interview between Philip Adams and Gordon Glenn and Scott Murray; Reviews - ‘The True Story of Eskimo Nell’, ‘Flesh for Frankenstein and Young Frankenstein’, Alvin Purple, ‘Yakkety Yak’, ‘Asylum’, ‘The Trespassers’; interview between Richard Franklin and Gordon Glenn and Scott Murray
Folder 18
Photocopies of photographs
Folder 19
Organisation papers, La Mama, including photocopies of outlines of objectives, background to beginnings of La Mama, clippings and publicity material
Photocopies of organisation papers, Australian Performing Group (APG) : profile, report and clippings
Folder 20
Photocopies of papers, the ‘Building’
Photocopies of clippings, Vietnam War and Melbourne University, c1960s
Folder 21
Photocopies of papers : La Mama, Pram Factory, Graeme Blundell, ‘The Hills Family Show’, Vietnam War demonstrations, Albert Langer, Malcolm Fraser, clipping - ‘Liberated Jail Birds Turn It On’; survey sheet ‘Were You a Carlton Resident?
Folder 22
Interviews transcripts : Peter Cummins, Laurel Frank, Helen Garner, Max Gillies, Jack Hibberd, Robin Laurie,
Carol Porter, Bruce Spence, Tony Taylor and John Timlin
Folder 23
Interview transcripts : Clare Dobbin, Kerry Dwyer, Bill Garner, Grahame Issacs, Phil Motherwell, Richard Murphett and John Romeril
Folders 24-25
Photocopies of interview transcripts : Richard Murphett, John Timlin, Clare Dobbin, Grahame Issacs, Bill Garner, Kerry Dwyer and John Romeril
Organisational papers, ‘Pramocracy in Action’ (1) and (2)
Article, ‘Since Betty Jumped : Theatre and Feminism in Melbourne’ by Suzanne Spunner.
Interview transcript : ‘Women’s Theatre and the APG’, Clare Dobbin and Hilary Glow
Folder 26
Script, ‘Pram Factory .... Sex, Drugs and Political Culture’ [documentary film], directed by Anna Grieve and James Manche (Film Australia Pty. Ltd.)
Folder 27
Lip, 1978/1979
Folder 28
Interview transcripts, early research : Robin Laurie, John Timlin, Max Gillies, Carol Porter, Helen Garner, Laurel Frank, Tony Taylor, Bruce Spence
Script (two copies), ‘Pram Factory a film’, by Carole Sklan and Anna Grieve
Program, ‘Manning Clark’s History of Australia - the Musical’, written by Tim Robertson and Don Watson with John Romeril
Folder 29
Magazine, Cinema Papers, Issue 18, October-November 1978
Folder 30
Magazine, Cinema Papers, Issue 18, October-November 1978
Folder 31
Scrapbook, ‘Pram 20 years on - Pram Research Clippings’
AV 1
Audio cassette tape : Michael Ahearn - Side (a) ‘Autumn Music I’ (Seymour Group) and ‘Scintillation’ (Ross Dunlop) and Side (b) ‘Autumn Music II’ (Seymour Group)
AV 2
Audio cassette tape : Transcripts 1, S/Rolls 1 to 4 pt., 29/3 to 30/3 pt., sl 1 - 47
AV 3
Audio cassette tape : Pram Factory, 5/4 and 6/4, S/R 24 - 30 pt
AV 4
Audio cassette tape : Pram Factory, 7.4.93, S/R 37 and 38
AV 5
Audio cassette tape : Greg Pickhaver
AV 6
Audio cassette tape : Bill and Lorna Hannan, 1 February 1993
AV 7
Audio cassette tape : Pram Factory - Side (a) S/R 39 - 40, John Timlin, and S/R 40 - 41 - 42, Bill Garner; Side (b) S/R 42 (continued) and 43, Bill Garner
AV 8
Audio cassette tape : Pram Factory - Side (a) S/Rs 47 - 48, Pickhaver, and S/R 49, Hawkes; Side (b) S/Rs 50 -51, Hawkes, Interviews
AV 9
Audio cassette tape : Graeme Blundell, interview 15 February 1993
AV 10
Audio cassette tape : Robin Laurie and Dennis More
AV 11
Audio cassette tape : Rob Meldrum, 7 February 1993
AV 12
Audio cassette tape : Transcriptions 2 - S/R 4 - 7, Sl. 48 - 77, 30 March 1993
AV 13
Audio cassette tape : S/Rs 20 - 23, 1 April 1993
AV 14
Audio cassette tape : Pram Factory - S/Rs 13 - 19, 1 April 1993
AV 15
Audio cassette tape : Peter King
AV 16
Audio cassette tape : Pram Factory - Side (a) Nos. 52 and 53; Side (b) Nos. 54 and 55
AV 17
Audio cassette tape : Rls. 62, 63 and 64
AV 18
Audio cassette tape : Richard Murphett
AV 19
Audio cassette tape : John Timlin
AV 20
Audio cassette tape : Grahame (Issacs)
AV 21
Audio cassette tape : Kerry Dwyer
AV 22
Audio cassette tape : Side (a) - Max Gillies, 27 January 1993; Side (b) - Betty Burstall, 1 February 1993
AV 23
Audio cassette tape : Pram Factory interviews - tapes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and part 6
AV 24
Audio cassette tape : Pram Factory interviews - tape 6 (continued from tape AV23)
AV 25
Audio cassette tape : Helen Garner
AV 26
Audio cassette tape : Bill Garner
AV 27
Audio cassette tape : Clare Dobbin
AV 28
Audio cassette tape : Jenny Kemp
AV 29
Audio cassette tape : Jon Hawkes
AV 30
Audio cassette tape : Helen Garner
AV 31
Audio cassette tape : Peter Corrigan
AV 32
Audio cassette tape : Bruce Spence
AV 33
Audio cassette tape : Phil Motherwell
AV 34
Audio cassette tape : Peter Cummins, 29 January 1993
AV 35
Audio cassette tape : Side (a) John Timlin, 27 January 1993; Side (b) Max Gillies, 27 January 1993
AV 36
Audio cassette tape : Tony Taylor, 26 January 1993 (26 February 93)
AV 37
Audio cassette tape : Laurel Frank, 6 March 1993
AV 38
Audio cassette tape : Pram Factory, Rl 65
AV 39
Audio cassette tape : John Romeril
AV 40
Audio cassette tape : Jack Hibberd
AV 41
Audio cassette tape : Pram Factory, 6/4 and 7/4, S/R 30 - 36
AV 42
Audio cassette tape : Pram Factory - Side (a) Rls 56, 57, 58, 59; Side (b) Rls 60 and 61
AV 43
Audio cassette tape : Transcripts - roll No. 2, S/Rolls 8 - 12, shoot 31/3
AV 44
Audio cassette tape : ‘Domestic Contradiction’, No. 15 - ‘Art and Politics’
AV 45
Audio cassette tape : Australian Performing Group Special General Meeting, 28 June 1979
AV 46
Audio cassette tape : The Gillies Report - the Songs
AV 47
Audio cassette tape : ‘Manning Clark’s History of Australia - the Australian Cast Recording of History of Australia, the Musical’
AV 48
Video cassette tape : ‘It Won’t Last a Week’, Melbourne University Theatre
Sheet 1
Slides of Dreamers of the Absolute (15) - copied from originals held by The Australian Defence Force Academy (Papers of Peter Corrigan) [MSS 245, Special Collections, UNSW]
Sheet 2
Slides of The Floating World (16) - copied from originals held at The Australian Defence Force Academy (Papers of Peter Corrigan) [MSS 245, Special Collections, UNSW]
Sheet 3
Handwritten notes listing actors in AC/DC production which were loose - photographs not identified
Sheet 4
Photograph by Ponch Hawkes of Australian Performing Group (Soapbox Circus, the community wing of the APG) in production of ‘The Timor Show’ (performed in a local factory canteen) soon after the Indonesian invasion of East Timor. Performers - Larry Meltzer, Richard Murphett, Greig Pickhaver, Michael Price, Lorna Hannon, Robin Laurie, Caz Howard
Sheet 5
Photograph by Ponch Hawkes - unidentified
Sheets 6 & 7
Photograph by Ponch Hawkes of Roz de Winter, Michael Price and Tony Taylor performing in ‘Mary Shelley and the Monsters together with handwritten identification
Sheets 8 & 9
Photograph by Ponch Hawkes of Carol Porter, Larry Meltzer, Michael Price and Jon Hawkes performing in ‘The Mother’ together with handwritten identification
Sheet 10
Photograph by Ponch Hawkes - unidentified
Sheet 11
Photograph by Ponch Hawkes of Carol Porter, Susy Potter, Paul Hampton, Neil Giles, Robin Laurie and Roz de Winter performing in ‘The Golden Holden’ written by John Romeril
Sheet 12
Photograph by Ponch Hawkes - unidentified performers in ‘Migrant Show’
Sheet 13
Photograph by Ponch Hawkes of Bill Garner and Gary Waddell performing in ‘Sports Show’.
Sheet 14
Handwritten note on Portable Theatre ‘Sports Show’.
Sheets 15 & 16
Photograph by Ponch Hawkes of John Romeril, Bruce Spence, Clare Dobbin, Jane Clifton, Lindzee Smith, Wilfred Last and Faye Mokatow in ALP Street Theatre together with handwritten identification note
Sheet 18
Photograph by Ponch Hawkes - unidentified
Sheets 19 & 20
Photograph by Ponch Hawkes of Clare Dobbin and others in Street Theatre for ALP together with handwritten identification note
Sheets 21 – 29
Photographs by Ponch Hawkes - unidentified
Sheets 28 & 29
Photograph of Richard Murphett and Wilfred Last in ‘Radioactive Horror Show’ together with handwritten identification note
Sheet 30
Photograph by Ponch Hawkes - unidentified
Sheets 31 & 32
Photograph by Ponch Hawkes of Soapbox Circus (backstage, Brisbane Matchbox) with Lauren Frank and Alan Robertson (Malcolm Fraser mask) and others together with handwritten identification note
Sheets 33 & 34
Photograph by Ponch Hawkes of Peter Green and one other in ‘Mad World My Masters’ together with handwritten identification note
Sheet 35 & 36
Photograph by Ponch Hawkes of Paul Hampton and Roz de Winter performing in ‘Migrant Show’ together with handwritten identification note
Sheet 37 – 39
Photographs by Ponch Hawkes - unidentified.
Sheets 40 & 41
Photograph by Ponch Hawkes of Margot Nash, Ursula Harrison, Richard Murphett and Kerry Dwyer performing in ‘Radioactive Horror Show’ (the Uranium Show) together with handwritten identification note
Sheets 42 & 43
Photograph by Ponch Hawkes of Wilfred Last performing in ‘Radioactive Horror Show’
Sheets 44 – 52
Photographs by Ponch Hawkes - unidentified
Sheets 53 & 54
Photograph by Ponch Hawkes of Soapbox Circus performing at Federation of Italian (FILEF) picnic together with handwritten identification note
Sheet 55
Handwritten identification notes for photographs of Soapbox Circus (loose)
Sheet 56
Photograph by Ponch Hawkes - unidentified
Sheet 57
Photograph by Ponch Hawkes of the Australian Performing Group’s Soapbox Circus (the community wing of the Australian Performing Group) perform ‘The Timor Show’ at a factory in 1976 with Jon Hawkes and others
Sheets 58 – 64
Photographs by Ponch Hawkes - unidentified
Sheet 65
Handwritten identification notes for ‘Panto in Space’ and ‘Migrant Show’ (loose)
Sheets 1 – 3
Photographs of Pram Factory building
Sheet 4
Photograph by Lloyd Carrick of the Australian Performing Group Street Theatre. (Doctor Karl (?), ‘The Alternative’ (?))
Sheets 5 & 6
Photograph by Ponch Hawkes of The Women’s Theatre Group and ‘The Love Show’
Sheets 7 & 8
Photograph by Ponch Hawkes of Max Gillies and Jon Hawkes in ‘The Architect and the Emperor’
Sheets 9 – 11
Photographs by Ponch Hawkes of ‘Tootles’, Tony Taylor and Max Gillies in ‘The Hills Family Show’
Sheet 12
Photograph by Ponch Hawkes of Robin Laurie, Jon Hawkes, Sue Broadway and Jack Daniels in ‘Circus Oz’
Sheet 13
Photograph by Ponch Hawkes of ‘Tootles’, Tony Taylor and Max Gillies in ‘The Hills Family Show’
Sheets 14 & 15
Photographs by Ponch Hawkes of Robin Laurie, Jon Hawkes, Sue Broadway and Jack Daniels in ‘Circus Oz’
Sheets 16 & 17
Photographs by Ponch Hawkes of Jane Clifton, Larry Meltzer, Carol Porter, Richard Motherwell and Richard Murphett rehearsing for Heathcote Williams’ play ‘AC/DC’
Sheet 18
Photocopies of photographs of Evelyn Krape, Faye Mokatow, Bill Garner and Jack Wiener in ‘The Hills Family Show’ and Phil Motherwell, Richard Murphett and Carol Porter in Heathcote Williams’ ‘AC/DC’
Sheets 19 – 47
Photographs by McKenzie and Associates Pty. Ltd. – unidentified (including Max Gillies and Bruce Spence)
Sheets 48 – 53
Proofs of photographs taken by McKenzie and Associates Pty. Ltd. (Includes ‘Don’s Party’)
Sheets 1 & 2
Proofs of photographs taken by Lloyd Carrick
Sheets 3 -6
Proof Sheets of photographs taken by Lloyd Carrick of ‘May Day’, 1969
Sheets 7 – 11
Proof Sheets of photographs taken by Lloyd Carrick of ‘May Day’, 1970
Sheets 12 – 14
Photographs by Lloyd Carrick taken of photographs held in ASRC, The Australian Defence Force Academy [Special Collections, UNSW]
Sheet 15
Negatives of photographs by Lloyd Carrick taken of photographs held in ASRC, The Australian Defence Force Academy [Special Collections, UNSW]- unidentified
Sheets 16 – 42
Photographs by Lloyd Carrick - unidentified
Sheets 43 & 44
Proofs of photographs taken by Lloyd Carrick of ‘Moving In’
Sheets 45, 46
Proofs of photographs taken by Lloyd Carrick of ‘Mayday’
Sheet 47
Proofs of photographs taken by Lloyd Carrick of Melbourne University Open Day
Sheets 48 & 49
Negatives of photographs taken by Lloyd Carrick
Sheets 50 & 51
Proofs of photographs taken by Lloyd Carrick (?) of Lygon Court Shopping Plaza
Sheets 1 – 14
Photographs by Margot Nash - unidentified
Sheets 15 – 22
Photocopies of proofs of photographs taken by Margot Nash
Roll 1
Proofs of photographs taken by Lloyd Carrick of ‘Moving In - Pram Factory’, 28 October 1970
Roll 2
Proofs of photographs taken by Lloyd Carrick of Melbourne University Open Day - Australian Performing Group (La Mama)