This is the second in a series of videos that in some way feature Greener Pastures. Broadcast on February 2nd 1995, I think this is the second time Greener Pastures was seen on TV, once again on Bert Newton's Good Morning Australia. Bert must have loved comics at the time!
The wonderful Annette Shiel is interviewed for her role as curator of ACE: the Australian Comic book Exhibition, which toured the country in two mostly identical travelling exhibitions from 1994 to 1997. It was a very good exhibition from an historical point of view and even spawned a book on the subject called Bonzer: Australian comics 1900s-1990s.
Greener Pastures #1 gets a great look-in at the 5 minute 30 second mark, featuring the cover for quite a while and being used as a prop in one of Bert's jokes.
Big apologies for the wavering sound – this has been digitised from a 17 year old VHS tape.
Cartoonists work shown:
Will Donald
Tim McEwen
Cartoonists and/or their work I can't recognise or can't remember also appear. My apologies for any omissions. I'm not an expert on most of the really historical stuff, so off the top of my head I can't name a lot of the creators there.
Hosted by Bert Newton
Aired February 1995
On Channel 10
So can I still buy greener pastures anywhere?
ReplyDeleteThanks for putting these up Tim. Fantastic stuff. Actually quite good to see how seriously Bert handles it. He should do all our launches!
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