Butch Calderwood papers, approximately 1952-1993

MLMSS 8317
MLOH 654

fonds

approximately 1952-1993

Textual Records, Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Clippings

146602

0.52 metres of textual material (3 boxes)
44 audiocassettes (10 hr., 57 min.) - 10 × 7 cm, 4 mm tape

Butch Calderwood was born in Australia before moving to England in the early 1950s where he found a job in radio with the BBC's overseas service.

Following this, Calderwood took a film training course, learning the role of a news camera operator. He returned to Australia in the late 1950s and worked as a news camera operator for Channel 7 in Sydney, and later for the ABC. In early 1962 he headed back to England and took a role with the BBC, leading to Panorama, a leading current affairs program.

He spent the following 20 years at the cutting edge of international news, travelling the world in pursuit of the biggest stories.

Calderwood met political figures all over the world, and worked in a number of international conflicts.

In 2003 he was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for his contributions to cinematography.

Reference:
Library correspondence file

BOX 1
Folder 1
List of places visited by Butch Calderwood, 1964-1979 and 1990, and travel writings, 1964-1969

Folder 2
Travel writings, 1970-1972

Folder 3
Travel writings, 1973-1978

Folder 4
Copies of letters, notes, programs, newspaper clippings, photographs, menus, etc. relating to Calderwood's work in B.B.C. Television and travel, 1952-1969

Folder 5
Copies of letters, notes, programs, newspaper clippings, photographs, menus, etc. relating to Calderwood's work in B.B.C. Television and travel, 1970-1993

BOX 2
Folder 1
Drafts of Calderwood's biography 'Don't Shoot - I'm Only the Cameraman' by Butch Calderwood and Robin Ivor, 1993

Folders 2-4
Notes and transcripts of cassette tapes, numbered 1-20, detailing Calderwood's reminiscences on travels, work for the B.B.C., etc., ca. 1952-1993

BOX 3
Folders 1-3
Notes and transcripts of cassette tapes, numbered 21-41, detailing Calderwood's reminiscences on travels, work for the B.B.C., etc., ca. 1952-1993

Sound recordings:
Memoirs by Butch Calderwood, 1992 (Call No.: MLOH 654)

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The description of this material has been supplied from the Oral History Digitisation Program, undertaken 2014 to 2017, of the Library's oral history collections.

The Library also holds Butch Calderwood unpublished autobiography at MLMSS 11872