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Clip description
Lee Whitmore narrates her childhood recollection of a regular family visitor, Ned Wethered.
Curator’s notes
Whitmore’s distinctive 2D animation style relies on strong line drawing together with a subtle use of colour. Colour is used to highlight details of a character’s appearance – the father’s vest or young Lee’s dress – or a particular scene such as the one depicting the child Lee’s vision of the world through the glass prism Ned shows her. This technique helps to convey the quiet simplicity of family life in the 1950s.
The beginnings of a more fast-paced era are intimated by Ned’s forced eviction from his home to make way for an expressway. Since Ned lived in North Sydney, this was probably the Warringah Expressway for which $9 million was allocated to relocate homes and businesses in the path of construction (see Warringah Expressway, 1969, clip one).
