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At 20:24, on board the MS Mikhail Lermontov, former State Minister Bill Crabtree, rumoured to have been involved in impropriety and dropped from the Cabinet in 1981. At this time he would have been Minister for Services (Police and Emergency Services).
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Interesting information John, thanks for letting us know.
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Interesting to note the cruise ship featured in this film was the Soviet MS Mikhail Lermontov which sank 8 years after this film was made off the coast of New Zealand. You can see the ship at 6:17 and onward from 20:00 . Just a little bit of history to go with such a fantastic film.
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Thanks for the feedback. We have a lot more to come.
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You're welcome, glad you enjoyed it.
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wonderful film, thank you brought back many memories.
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Interesting. I've heard about Sydney's start as convict settlement.
Made by Film Australia 1978. Directed by Dean Semler. Taking its title from the Kenneth Slessor poem "Five Bells" Sydney Harbour is the subject of this documentary. A pre-dawn memory of the harbour's convict past appears like a dream, but as the sun rises and the trawlers return with their cargo of prawns, the harbour comes to life. Australia's multicultural society is epitomised in this film; people of Italian, Greek,Turkish, Filipino, Russian, Maltese, South American, British and Asian descent all have something to do with Sydney Harbour, either at work or at play. This film was Dean Semler's directorial debut which was followed up the following year by the equally evocative Film Australia film Saturday http://www.youtube.com/edit?ns=1&o=U&video_id=o3zLZ4EYJrg Five Bells refers to the 12 hours of a ship's day or night that are divided into watches of four hours counted from midday or midnight. After the first half hour there is a bell, after the hour two bells, and so on until eight bells and the four-hour watch. Five bells sound at 10.30 am. or 10.30 p.m.