Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1937-1950. (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
11 boxes.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Maxwell Dunn (1916-1965) was born in Launceston, Tasmania, and began his working life as an insurance agent. Turning to writing, he wrote radio plays first for the ABC, beginning with Jungle Drums in 1937, and later for the Macquarie network where he became production manager. He wrote and adapted numerous plays, serials and documentaries for the Macquarie network and its subsidiary Artransa. In 1950 Dunn joined the United Nations Radio and Television department, working for ten years in New York and New Delhi. Dunn returned to Australia shortly before his death in 1965.
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Papers, 1937-1950.
Collection alternatively titled as: Maxwell Dunn Collection.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Works by or adapted by Dunn including radio series, radio plays, radio documentaries, publicity booklets, synopses, sample scripts, audition episodes, script ideas, quiz game, and comic strip ideas.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access.
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Uploaded finding aid
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
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Notes area
Alternative identifier(s)
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Libraries Australia ID
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Name access points
- Dunn, Maxwell, 1916- (Subject)
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Status
Migrated
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.