Bread and Dripping (1981), oral history the great depression

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The SBS promo at the start of the show for National Aborigines' Week, September 5-11th 1988 suggests that this show aired on SBS before that big event, and in terms of content, was designed to be simpatico, with Aboriginal themes running through the show.
This left-leaning, feminist inclined film from 1981 looks at four women recalling the business of raising families during the great depression of the 1930s.
The women were Eileen Pittman, Tibby Whalan, Mary White and Beryl Armstrong. Unfortunately, the film doesn't use sub-titles to identify the speakers.
The film adopts an oral history approach to the telling of stories by people often ignored by history and historians.
The film was put together as a collective, with Wendy Brady, Donna Foster, Margot Nash, Elizabeth Schaffer and Vic Smith sharing a credit for "Wiminsfilms". (This was later spelled as Wimmins Films, but the tail credit is clearly for "Wiminsfilms").
The Sydney Women's Film Group operated out of the then lively, alternative home of independent filmmakers, the Sydney Filmmakers' Co-Op.
The film was funded by the Creative Development Branch of the Australian Film Commission and the Womens' Film Fund, which was then another AFC funding strand.
The film screened in the 1982 Melbourne and Wellington Film Festivals.