If ever I do get to lead a U3A course in 'Armchair Economics' I need to be able to access Petty's 1970 film 'The Money Game'. I've just looked to see if it's on You Tube...doesn't seem so, but it seems it's still available through the National Film Archive, who showed it as a Post Budget movie just last year.... found this in the publicity for the showing...
"But the great 'poet’ of Australian economics was then (and still is) cartoonist and filmmaker Bruce Petty. For The Money Game (1970, 50 mins, 16mm), he collaborated with filmmaker Michel Pearce to make a wicked satire on the biffo of Australian class and socio-economics, re-imagined as a hybrid of courtroom drama and professional wrestling bout." Added later: A more recent film to check out could be Global Haywire, which I must try to access. Here's a review... Fitzgerald, K (2008) Film Review: Global Haywire http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=7220 |
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