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Avondale lecturer helps produce Anzac TV program
02 March 2010
Brenton Stacey
Public relations officer
An Avondale College lecturer has travelled to Gallipoli in western Turkey to help produce Anzac Day-themed episodes for a Christian television program.
Associate Professor Daniel Reynaud, dean of the Faculty of Arts, wrote the scripts, served as the historical consultant and appeared on camera for two episodes of It Is Written Oceania. He spent six days with the crew on the peninsula. "Most tour groups spend about half-a-day there, so the experience enhanced my knowledge enormously, and it was a lot of fun."
Daniel's interest lies in the Anzac legend and its representation in early Australian films. He is the author of Celluloid Anzacs: The Great War Through Australian Cinema and The Hero of the Dardanelles and Other World War One Silent Dramas. He has also worked with the National Film and Sound Archive in the recovery and partial reconstruction of several silent films, including The Hero of the Dardanelles (1915), Australia's first Gallipoli movie.
The It Is Written Oceania episodes will air on the Australian Christian Channel, Channel Seven in Australia, EMTV in Papua New Guinea, the Seventh-day Adventist Church's Hope Channel and TV2 in New Zealand around Anzac Day this year and over the next two years.
Caption: Associate Professor Daniel Reynaud and It Is Written Oceania speaker and director Pr Gary Kent on set at The Neck, which served as the setting for the movie, Gallipoli.
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