The Australians at War Film Archive
TIME CODE

TIME CODE

Each interview transcript is marked by time code in 30 second intervals. The time code relates directly to the time code on the master camera video tapes. The first 2 digits are the tape number, the second 2 digits are minutes, the third two digits are seconds and the last 2 digits are frames (there are 25 frames per second in video) Below is a sample transcript including time codes:

Barney Donnelly
0001
9th Division ASC
5/41st Battalion

Tape 1

01:00:30:00

Q: Could you give us a quick summary of your life and career?

A: Well as I have said before to many people most of my life most of my life was in the metal industry of all types and I was in metal company when I joined the army. I had approximately five, five and a half years in the army

01:01:01:00

in the Australian AIF [Australian Imperial Force] and when I came back I went back to the same job position and worked from there into the foundry areas mainly and then I had a breakdown a nervous breakdown about three or four years after the war at which stage I was very badly effected

01:01:30:00

with war time problems. I was worrying about bombing and so on and so I as virtually in a state of back with the war time situations the bad times, even to the extent that my wife said I tried to strangle her a couple times in bed. And then I went back to the metal industry and finished up

01:02:00:00

in the management of a quite a big company and that was my lifestyle from then on. Virtually that's a very small encapsulation of my life during that time.

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