IT'S A GREAT, GREAT GAME!
(Published on YouTube May 15, 2016)
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This
32 min sound film (colour) was made by the Senior Scouts of 1st Rose Bay (Sydney) and tells
the story of their time at the 7th Australian Jamboree held at Dandenong
near Melbourne in 1964-5.
The Standard 8mm Kodachrome film stock cost about 33 pounds (a lot of money then!) which
was raised by weekend car-washing.
Post
production was in early 1965. The sound track was recorded
semi-synchronously in one take on stroboscopically-striped open reel
tape - with minor adjustments later.
The premiere was at a crowded Rose bay Scout Hall in about March 1965.
The
fragile film (and tape) was re-constructed and restored in 2016. It now
looks better, and is better synchronised, than at any original
performance!