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Christmas Pantomime: The Story of Dick Whittington
Title:
Christmas Pantomime: The Story of Dick Whittington
NFSA ID
1559198
Year
1966
Courtesy
Nine Network
This is an excerpt from Adelaide TV station NWS9's 1966 production of The Story of Dick Whittington.
The clip features David Flatman as Dick Whittington, Pam Western as Alice, Carole Stace as Jenny the Cat and Hedley Cullen as Mr Fitzwarren.
The cat costume worn by dancer Carole Stace in Dick Whittington was so hot they needed a crew member standing by with a fan to cool her through the eye and nose holes. Unfortunately, the fan also accidentally shaved off the whiskers on the cat!
In the early years of Australian television, NWS9 in Adelaide produced an annual Christmas pantomime.
Other fondly remembered productions of theirs included Cinderella (1962), Aladdin (1963) and Jack and the Beanstalk (1964).
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.