War On The Doorstep: The Japanese Shelling Of Newcastle Radio Documentary

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Newcastle & The Hunter Valley, Now And Then On Film

4 жыл бұрын

"War On The Doorstep" is a 1 hour long, 2NURFM produced documentary about the night Newcastle was shelled by a Japanese Submarine on the 8th of June, 1942, after it was involved in the attack on Sydney Harbour. Includes the people who were there that night telling the story of what happened.
“War on the Doorstep” was produced and narrated by Martin Hadlow, an ex-BBC radio producer and announcer who was then the station manager of 2NUR-FM. He was a dedicated amateur war historian and later set up the radio network on the Solomon Islands, where he continued his research into the WW2 history of the region.
The footage used is from colour film of Newcastle in 1945, footage from an NBN news segment on the 75th anniversary of the attack on Newcastle, an animated graphic map showing the attack on Newcastle and colour footage filmed in Newcastle at the end of the war
Film used in the footage is from The Story Of A City (1945) (available to view at • Story Of A City (Newca... ), colour film of the VJ Day celebrations in Newcastle (available to view at • VJ Day (Victory Over J... ), 3D footage created by David Threlfo from an NBN News segment (available to view in full here • JAPANESE SUBMARINE SHE... ) and Fort Scratchley Attack (available to view here • Fort Scratchley - The ... )

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@pamelanaylor7761 10 ай бұрын

Great to hear all about what took place. My Mother was 2 months from giving birth to me and living in Parnell Place. She later told me of her thoughts at that time and was fearfull of what sort of world her child would have to live in. So glad I have had a good life so far thanks to many people in service for our country. 😊

@terenceecampbell6497 2 ай бұрын

In an issue of Walkabout magazine : two

@terenceecampbell6497 2 ай бұрын

In an issue of Walkabout magazine , under the heading of " Japanese incursions in Australia during WW2 " ... an air-dropped pallet containing a Japanese jeep , small arms , uniforms , banknotes ; discovered on a cattle property in 1945 , by a returned Digger . The second part of the article concerns a Japanese soldier on a bicycle at night in Rockhampton , recording street names , when reported to Authorities and action taken , a departing submarine was observed ! ... so much for the lie " the Japanese never intended to invade Australia " ...

@clemsteinbeck7931 Ай бұрын

@@terenceecampbell6497 Quick .... there goes another pig flying bacwards.

@clemsteinbeck7931 Ай бұрын

Sorry but you must be out with the faries with your comment. Had a bit of a search and could find no such article. Maybe if you provided a link I might be more convinced that the world is flat and alien lizard people run the planet.

@tonyscott7184 2 жыл бұрын

My grandfather talking at 12.32

@newcastlethehuntervalley 2 жыл бұрын

Is he still with you or has he passed away?

@tonyscott7184 2 жыл бұрын

He passed in 1992-

@newcastlethehuntervalley 2 жыл бұрын

@@tonyscott7184 sorry to hear... But it must be good to hear his voice after so long. My Grandfather passed away in 1989 and my Grandmother in 1997... I have a single video of my Grandfather that runs for about five minutes and it is amongst my most precious pieces of video and audio. It also has my Grandmother on it too.

@clemsteinbeck7931 Ай бұрын

@@tonyscott7184 I met Ted many years ago at Fort Scratchley. I hope he did not tell you as many "stories" as he did back then. He told us about about some stuff about the fort which we investigated and then presented to him as being, to put it politely, "wrong." He did not argue but responded with a new "story" that we again already knew was "wrong". It's possible he may started the rumour of the underground submarine facility under Nobbys.

@terrybourke8834 10 ай бұрын

I've heard that it wasn't a Japanese sub, but a U.S. frigate that the day before had been tied up at the BHP sinter plant wharf and was sent to ginger up the Australian war effort. Interestingly none of the "Japanese" shells exploded . They were made in Melbourne in 1915 and "sold" as surplus after WW1.

@newcastlethehuntervalley 10 ай бұрын

Well, the captain of the Japanese submarine that shelled Newcastle actually visited in the 1980's or 1990's. And at least one of the shells exploded, causing damage to the road at Parnell Place and also a home in the vicinity.

@clemsteinbeck7931 Ай бұрын

If the captain of sub visited and the shells were made in England then you would have some research to back this up!

@clemsteinbeck7931 Ай бұрын

If the captain of sub visited and the shells were made in England then you would have some research to back this up!

@fingerprint5511 6 ай бұрын

Really, really weird footage for this narration.

@newcastlethehuntervalley 6 ай бұрын

It was the closest footage that I could get to of Newcastle at around the time the radio documentary deals with.

@neilforbes416 10 ай бұрын

The opening commentary was about Sydney. Had nothing to do with Newcastle

@newcastlethehuntervalley 9 ай бұрын

True, however the majority of the radio program is about Newcastle, so I used footage of Newcastle.

@neilforbes416 9 ай бұрын

@@newcastlethehuntervalley Then maybe you should've sought images from the Newcastle Region Public Library in Laman Street, got the necessary permissions and used those images as your resource.

@newcastlethehuntervalley 9 ай бұрын

As I said, this channel.is for moving images (only on very rare occasions will I use photos), so I used footage of Newcastle from as close to 1942 as I could find.

@clemsteinbeck7931 Ай бұрын

The creator does as little as possible whicb inckudes not recognising the source of his video footage used.

@neilforbes416 Ай бұрын

@@clemsteinbeck7931 And that, in itself is bad, as it shows a *total lack of courtesy* to the creators of the material he has used. Proper acknowledgements are *CRUCIAL* to producing material like this.

@neilforbes416 10 ай бұрын

The film images are totally out of context with the audio commentary. This gets a thumbs-down from me!

@newcastlethehuntervalley 10 ай бұрын

The whole point of this video is the radio documentary. The footage is only to serve the purpose of presenting the radio documentary to anyone who wants to listen. I have used footage from 1945 because it is the only footage I could find of what Newcastle was like at the time of World War 2. The other footage shows a CGI of the Japanese attack on Newcastle in 1942 that was produced by NBN.

@neilforbes416 10 ай бұрын

@@newcastlethehuntervalley Then it would've been better to just use a still-frame and lay the audio onto the sound track.

@newcastlethehuntervalley 9 ай бұрын

The whole point of this channel is to show Newcastle in moving images. 1945 is as close to 1942 as I could find in moving images. Not much would've changed in three years and I wanted to show Newcastle as close to as it was in 1942. If you don't like it, that's fine. But considering the footage is from around that time then I can't see the problem of the footage presented with the radio documentary placed over the top of that footage.

@clemsteinbeck7931 Ай бұрын

@@neilforbes416 War of the Worlds was a radio adaption of H. G. Wells story and history shows that the radio production did not need pictures to be successful. To quote - "The footage (VISUAL) is only to serve the purpose of presenting" ... "to anyone who wants to LISTEN." This defies logic as there is no medical evidence that you need to see before you have the ability to listen. I can only assume the creator of the posted "video" is implying blind people are deaf?

@chriscollardey8155 Ай бұрын

It shows you how disorganised we were in Australia. And too much political bureaucracy bulsht. If Japan really wanted to invade Australia there could have walked all over us. Too slow to react too much red tape.