Historical information

30 min colour and sound 16mm film, severely faded, beginning with an interview with a Vietnam widow and going on to explain the help Sydney Legacy gave to bereaved families including outings, health, etc.
Lionel Long, who was a Legacy ward, is interviewed and sings one of the ballads he was famous for in the 1960s.
A Widow's Club meeting is shown and a party of the Northern Suburbs Progressive Twenties who raised money for Legacy. They were smoking, drinking, and eating what looks like cheerios and slices of bread in a large room hung with streamers and balloons and dancing to pop music.
Junior Legatee Karen Miller was interviewed about her experience travelling to Switzerland to represent Australia at the Swiss Bank Centenary, Switzerland, with a boy from NSW, going on to stay with a Legacy family in London for a week. The functions of Legatees are explained as a Legatee is shown with one of his families.
Also interviewed is a practising solicitor who attributes his qualification to the help he got from Legacy.
Girls are shown rehearsing for their debutante presentation and the film segues to the actual presentation with the Governor Sir Roden Cutler, Governor of NSW, and his wife.
Legatees are shown cutting, trucking and delivering firewood to widows.
Photography by Frederick Richardson; sound by Peter Willesee; Executive Producer Michael Willesee; produced and edited by Bob Lawson. A Trans Media Production.
This film has been digitised to preserve its content. Melbourne Legacy gratefully acknowledges the support of the Victorian Government and Public Record Office Victoria for making this possible.

Significance

A visual record of Sydney Legacy in the 1960s giving an overview of the work they did.

Physical description

A film in a blue plastic canister produced about the activities of Sydney Legacy in the 1960s.

Inscriptions & markings

Label of 'Colour Film Pty Ltd, client Trans Media Colour print' handwritten 'Copy No 3'