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Oral History and Transcriptions
Oral history is the recording of people’s memories and life experiences. It is unique, individual and completely biased and wonderful (after all only they remember it that way!). It needs time, patience and good recording gear.
http://www.ohaa.net.au/
Why Documentaries offers a video oral history package for $300.00 + GST.
This is a fantastic gift idea which sees Why Documentaries crew turn up at your grandfather’s house for two hours and have a good old conversation. We even provide tea and biscuits!
Seriously, video oral history is the new way to record memoirs, throw out the photo album, the letters and the tape recordings and talk to the camera.
Why Documentaries is also working with the Lake Illawarra MAP Digital storytelling.
www.lakeillawarramap.info/Writers_Information/Welcome.html
Transcriptions
At Why Documentaries we provide fast turnaround transcriptions.
At $2 per minute we provide accurate, timecoded transcriptions of all audio cassette tapes, interviews, video tapes.
We can also better sound problems on your audio tapes and provide conversions to DVDs.
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Tape |
Who |
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Use |
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Len Leffley |
Introducing Len Leffley, retired miner of the South Coast. |
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SP: Mr Leffley, could tell us how you started in the mines? LL: There was a history of mining in my family in the 1850s, both my grandfathers had came from England and Scotland and they went to the goldfields and the Leffleys we had in fact done very well in the early times of the goldrush days and of course, being born in this little gold mine area town of --- I very soon learnt the ways to find gold. In fact I was panning for gold when I was 5 years of age, so with this mining in my blood it was only…natural that eventually when I left Winnyer? And I went to Candos and worked for wireless roof works, there was a couple of mines around the place and I still had this mining in the blood, and I eventually went to the mine in Candos and stayed until about 18 years of age.SP: What about down in the Illawarra?LL: Down in the Illawarra I was working in Lithgow and it was normal with the mines that there was some good times that were bad and then in 1957, the mines around Lithgow were closing and many were transferred from Lithgow, there was a steelworks mine, AI & S mine in Lithgow and we were transferred down to the mines of theirs on the coast and I was replaced at Mt Kembla, that was in 1957. |
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SP: did you enjoy being in the mines?LL: If I had another opportunity to work, that would be the only one place that I would go and that would be the mines.SP: Why was that?LL: something about mining, theres, the environment of the mining demands that once you go underground you are never alone, there is a dependence of each other and that dependence builds a comradeship which I don’t believe you get anywhere else other than in a mine.SP: Can you explain that a bit more, why do you think that is?LL: Why do I think that is? Because of the dangers in the mine, the dangers of the mine of roof falls, of fires, of explosions and of course at any time one works underground, he can be caught in these situations, caught under a fall, involved in explosions, and as a miner, it’s traditional that you know, that if you are in trouble, your mates will never let you down and they will always be with you and they will give all your efforts to make sure of your safety and of course the sad times, when falls result in fatalities and even then you know, that even in death, you are never alone in a mine… |
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Contact us
info@whydocumentaries.com.au
Some recent and current clients and projects include:
- Oral History of Vietnam War Veterans
- Stonemasons of Australia, NSW Dept of Public Works & Services
- International Tennis Hall of Fame
- “Beneath Black Skies: Illawarra Coal Mining stories beneath the surface” - over 42 interviews to be held at the Wollongong City Council library of early mining days in the Illawarra.
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