50 years of ABC footage now searchable online

The ABC is pleased to announce the launch of TARA Online, an online database providing content users access to thousands of hours of footage recorded over the past 50 years by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).

Dion Beebe ASC ACS wins Oscar

It was Dion's second nomination for an oscar... and only the 7th time in 20 years, Director of Photography Wins Both ASC Award and Oscar for Film

ARRI Australia opens its doors

ARRI Australia provides camera rental sales and service, with a lighting sales and service division in development.

On the Box

On the box: great moments in Australian television 1956-2006... at the Powehouse Museum, Sydney

2006 AFI Winners

ACS Members picked up gongs in all both cinematography categories (Ian Jones & Jackie Farkas); as well as the International Awards for Excellence in Filmmaking (Dion Beebe ACS ASC), and Outstanding Achievement in Television Screen Craft (Joe Pickering)

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ACS seeks production stills

Do you have a great production still featuring an Australian cinematographer? If so, the Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS) would like to consider it for inclusion in its 50th Anniversary publication, The Shadowcatchers, an elegant coffee table book documenting the work of Australian Cinematographers from early days to the present.

So that we can have a sufficiently wide range of stills from all types of production to choose from, we need you — the cinematographers, directors, producers, actors, still photographers and others — to send in copies of your photos. Don’t send any originals yet, just a jpeg (preferably) or a photocopy with — as best you can — the following information:

- name and year of the production
- name of the cinematographer and others in the photo
- name of the person who took the still
- name and contact details (if you have them) of the copyright holder of the still

At this point, the project is unfunded and the only reward for selection will be immortalisation in a beautifully-designed, inclusive and enduring record of our industry. All stills photographers will be credited and the high quality of the photos will be matched by the thoughtfulness of the accompanying text. This will be written by film historian Martha Ansara, with support from the ACS Book Committee.

Please send material to
ACS Book Committee
c/- Calvin Gardiner
Engine
47 Herbert St.
Artarmon NSW 2064
cal@engine.net.au

Please direct inquiries or any contact details you may have for photographers who have done production stills to: Martha Ansara (email only) hotdox@iinet.net.au

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