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Maitland And Morpeth String Quartet, 1989
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The classic Australian animation of love, music, poetry and flood in a country town - voiced by the late and great Ruth Cracknell. Based on the book by Nicholas Enright, set in basic but very clever rhyming verse, it tells the humorous story of a group of small town classical music lovers who form an ensemble. Along the way they encounter the pains of lost love, the drenching of a flood and the power of people coming together for common purpose. Produced in 1989 and long out of print this was originally aired on Australian television in the early 1990s and was briefly available on VHS tape. This below by Dr Marian Quigley, from the Australian Screen NFSA website: https://aso.gov.au/ Curator’s notes by Dr Marian Quigley The Maitland and Morpeth String Quartet is primarily a 2D hand-drawn cel animation but also includes photographic and abstract imagery. A love story set in the year of the Great Maitland Flood of 1955, the film is based on a rhyming narrative poem of the same name by Nicholas Enright and recited by the late Australian actor, Ruth Cracknell. The poem had previously been performed on ABC radio, also recited by Cracknell, and made into a book illustrated by Victoria Rob…
Subjects
music, video, animation, Ruth Cracknell, baroque, classical music, poetry, rhyme, humor, Maitland, Morpeth, Anne Joliffe
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