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Boys of the Lake Memoirs of Growing Up in Shenton Park, WA

This is the docudrama about Steven, and his mischievous misadventures as a young boy. Separated from his parents by a domestic dispute, he

was placed in a Salvation Army’s boys’ home in the working class suburb of Shenton Park, in Perth, WA. Facing challenges, Stephen develops a

relationship with the Rosalie boys and with the land, which was to sustain him throughout a productive life.

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SYNOPSIS

This is the docudrama about Steven, and his mischievous misadventures as a young boy. Separated from his parents by a domestic dispute he was placed in

a Salvation Army’s boys’ home in the working class suburb of Shenton Park, in Perth, WA. Steven develops a relationship with the Rosalie boys and with the

land. This connection was to sustain him throughout a productive life. The viewer watches as he engages in many fun filled activities at the lake, including

playing games and exploring the surrounding territories. We see him get up to mischief with his young friends in many ways, such as launching fruit raids,

stoning roofs, and breaking lights. We watch as he progresses through school and obtains part-time employment. We finally see him reach adulthood and

join with him as an old man when he looks back at those early days at the lake with nostalgia.

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VISION AUDIO T VIEW NOTES SHOTS/ ACTION NARRATOR

DIALOGUE SFX (Vision /Audio)

MUSIC

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Pan slowly, showing activities at lake.

Scroll title Opening music Fades

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LOOK FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO FILM CUT-INS AND CUTAWAYS TO REDUCE TIME AS ILLUSTRATED BELOW FOR EDITING.

Zoom in on wildlife and activities

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LOOK FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO FILM CUT-INS AND CUTAWAYS

MS of Steven talking

EXT. OVER-LOOKING SHENTON PARK LAKE - DAY Steven sits on a park bench overlooking the lake, looking at the scenery.

STEVEN MALLEY I often come here with other older people to admire the Lake. Its beauty enchants and brings back memories of my misspent childhood.

Sounds Of Birds Steven’s dialogue, then V/O

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LOOK FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO FILM CUT-INS AND CUTAWAYS

Video around the lake

Life wasn’t easy as a kid in Shenton Park and I'd a rocky start. My early life is a tale of mischief and drama, beginning in a boy’s home. This is the story of my youthful misadventures and the trials of growing up.

V/O SOFT MUSIC RISES,

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Dolly LS of people strolling

FADES

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MS, Superimpose green screen of Steven over old family photos

Steven It starts with spending my very young years on a family farm in Dalwallinu.

Bring up noise of bickering

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My parents, John Car sounds

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MS, Superimpose green screen of Steven over old family photos

and Phyllis didn’t get along with each other.

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MCU, twosome then follow mum

INT. HALLWAY OF HOUSE - DAY A mother fights with the father, who sits drinking and then storms out of the house with two children, carrying a suitcase, sobbing.

MOTHER (SHOUTING ANGRILY) You’re no good. I’ve had enough and I’m leaving.

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LS from front, Mum walks with children I’m taking the kids. You’ll never see them again.

Door Slams

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LS tilt up as Steven gets up, walks towards camera

EXT. OVERLOOKING SHENTON PARK LAKE - DAY Steven stands and begins to walk along the lake.

STEVEN MALLEY And I never did see my dad again. My mother couldn’t support us without John. She had to put my brother Barry, David and myself, three years of age, into

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Historical Photos with green screen of MCU photo of baby Steven superimposed

the Salvation Army’s

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Approx 6-8 photos

Historical Photos with green screen MCU of Steven superimposed

EXT. BOYS HOME - DAY We see historical photographs of a large Federation building showing its architectural features.

Nedlands Boys Home in Shenton Park. I was three.

v/o

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Green screen of STEVEN over photographs

STEVEN MALLEY Some things stand out in my memory from this early period.

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LS of young young Steven playing

A young Steven sits outside, plays with a toy. We hear a call to dinner and he wanders in.

Dinner’s ready Call

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3 LS An older boy appears and takes the toy, tossing it over a hedge.

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WS twosome, then CU Young Steven

Steven returns to find it missing. The older boy bullies him, and he sits and cries.

OLDER BOY Whats wrong ? Missing your mum? You’re such a crybaby.

CRYING

2 CUTAWAY

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Historical Photos with green screen of Steven superimposed

I recall the good times, the Guy Fox bonfire of 5 November every year. An enormous pyramid of wood was collected with an effigy of Guy Fox on top to be ignited in front of a crowd of spectators along Smyth Road.

FIRE BURNING NOISE

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Then the fireworks were ignited.

FIREWORKS

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Young Steven swings cricket bat at ball.


We had great fun with cricket,

V/O Noise of children

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Photo or Young Steven with Bobtail lizard


collecting skinks V/O Noise of children

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And playing pirates. V/O Noise of children

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I was the top boy in gymnastic pyramids, being small and young.

V/O cheering

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WS pillow fight Twosome Young Steven and friend.

We had great fun with pillow fights.


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Historical Photos with green screen of Steven superimposed

I well remember, the ablutions building with its freezing cold shower and the formidable army officer armed with a large wooden scrubbing brush. The boy who was scrubbed once was never scrubbed again!


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MS EXT/INT ST. MATHEWS AND ONSLOW ROAD HOME - DAY Steven walks slowly outside St. Mathews church talking.

STEVEN MALLEY My mother fortunately met George Burgess of Onslow Road, Shenton Park. They were happily married in 1948, at St. Matthews Church.

Marriage music

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MS Steven outside Onslow Street home.

He arranged temporary accommodation for my mother and the four children in 1947. I shared a room with my sister and two brothers.

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3 WS Young Steven and girl

We see two children end to end in bed.

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We see historical photographs

Our step dad George was a soldier in both wars. His uniform, and riding crop hung in our bedroom.

V/O

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I got to know that riding crop very well as it was often liberally applied to my backside

V/O We hear wacks and sobbing

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We see historical photographs, old footage of the war

As a child, I often looked through George’s picture books on World War I. Those mementos helped to make me conscious of the immense sacrifices and contribution of our soldiers to our country.

V/O

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We see historical photographs, old footage of the war and World War I footage

STEVEN MALLEY George was in the Sixth Light Horsemen during the Great War, from 1914 to 1918. Like most soldiers, his life was tough during the war, and he rarely spoke of it.

V/O Noises of war

WWI SONG

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We see an old KOREAN war newsreel with green screen of Steven superimposed

STEVEN MALLEY War influenced my life. We often went to the Shenton Park Picture Theatre to watch the black-and-white newsreels of the war in Korea.

V/O Noises of war

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green screen of Steven superimposed over footage of Australian troops in Korea

Shortly afterwards, we saw an older former Rosalie boy, now a soldier in full kit, heading off to the Korean War. It made the war meaningful and immediate.

V/O Noises of war

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MCU Steven Tilt down from top

Steven stands talking near a monument in Kings Park, and looks at a plaque.

Wars were often on my mind with my visits to King’s Park.

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MS Steven pan

Steven stands talking outside the old Lemnos Hospital and examines plaque.

I was a regular visitor to the Lemnos War Veterans Hospital. This hospital built in 1926 serviced the needs of returned serviceman

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green screen of Steven superimposed

suffering from shell shock in World War I.

Fade in Noise of shells

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LS tilt up Steven in front of tree One Aleppo Pine remains there, a memento bought back by the soldiers.

Noise of shells

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WS Steven points to sign and walks past buildings.

Today the hospital buildings are used as part of Shenton High School.

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We see Steven in front of the buildings of the infectious hospital at Shenton Park Rehabilitation Hospital. .

STEVEN MALLEY As a child I spent considerable time in the Children’s Hospital, now Princess Margaret.

V/O

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This was when diphtheria and polio were rampant and some of my fellow students tragically died.

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MS Steven green screen imposed over photographs

In these days, before antibiotics, patients were placed in the Infectious Diseases Hospital, now part of Shenton Park Rehabilitation Hospital.

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MS PAN EXT. HERBERT STREET - DAY Steven stands in front of the Herbert Street home.

STEVEN MALLEY Next we moved to this lovely home in 1953 which George built. Here we had space to eat as a whole family.

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Historical photograph

We even employed a maid in a traditional costume.

V/O

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LS EXT. FRESHWATER BAY - DAY Steven talks at Freshwater Bay, overlooking the yachts and boat house.

STEVEN MALLEY Once settled, we frequently made excursions to Freshwater Bay,

WATER LAPPING

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LS Young Steven

Young Steven plays in the sand or water

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MS Young Steven

and we see him baiting a hook,

http://www.google.com.au/imgres?q=freshwater+bay+wa+yacht&um=1&hl=en&safe=off&rls=com.microsoft:en-au:IE-Address&biw=1097&bih=573&tbm=isch&tbnid=uPzNuIT4QVKx7M:&imgrefurl=http://westernsuburbs.inmycommunity.com.au/news-and-views/local-sport/Tristan-to-sail-in-Europe/7592125/&docid=_BQvOmYecF7EbM&w=300&h=200&ei=AraPTrm2EM6HmQXWtJ0F&zoom=1

http://www.google.com.au/imgres?q=baiting+a+hook&um=1&hl=en&safe=off&rls=com.microsoft:en-au:IE-Address&biw=1097&bih=573&tbm=isch&tbnid=Wa68ZuC1RwBDfM:&imgrefurl=http://fineartamerica.com/featured/baiting-the-hook-juls-adams.html&docid=9I28NYjUkJRR-M&w=600&h=398&ei=QLOPTtqQDIXsmAX67tEN&zoom=1

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LS Young Steven

and casting a line into the water. .

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We see historical photographs of the Luna Park

Luna Park in Scarborough,

V/O

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ferry and even took the ferry to Garden Island

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Kwinana We visited the wreck of the Kwinana where we believed a large octopus dwelt.

v/o

http://www.google.com.au/imgres?q=boy+fishing&um=1&hl=en&safe=off&sa=N&rls=com.microsoft:en-au:IE-Address&biw=1097&bih=573&tbm=isch&tbnid=DhHoa-mbnpCQcM:&imgrefurl=http://circleclakepickett.com/photo-gallery.html&docid=ylOHBoXUomRr5M&w=436&h=336&ei=_rKPTuulOM6ImQWSnOUj&zoom=1

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Historical photographs of stores with MS green screen image of Steven superimposed.

and shops Mother took us to Perth, where we'd visit the stores, Boans,

TRAFFIC NOISE

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Foys, Bairds and Moores,

TRAFFIC NOISE

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Historical photographs


and watch the shop’s vacuum tube transport documents.

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Historical photographs


We even bought comics which we shared happily.

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MCU PAN

EXT. OVERLOOKING SHENTON PARK LAKE - DAY Steven walks along the border of Shenton Lake and there are various views of the lake.

STEVEN MALLEY Shenton Lake, now renamed to Lake Jualbup has provided sustenance to the aboriginal people and their culture since time immemorial.

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Archival footage of aboriginal culture

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Pan photographs


We see historical photographs of the lake,

It was a watering place when owned by James Dyson and known as 'Dyson's Swamp".

V/O

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camels, It was a resting stopover for travellers with their camels.

V/O

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photo George Shenton. The lake was eventually sold to a parliamentarian George Shenton and became known as 'Shenton' Lake.

V/O

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Zoom in on map

In the 1920s, the lake was twice its present length and was considered a permanent water basin.

V/O

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GOOGLE VIEW OR PHOTOS

WS Steven by pump bldg

The 1927 pumping station has been responsible for the drier changes in summer today.

V/O

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WS OF LAKE WITH CUT INS

MS Steven At lake pans

Work has been continually done on the lake over the years. It’s progressively changed from a "pocket" wilderness that’s been 'mistress' to me and the "boys of the lake" to today’s

birds

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garden style.

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MS Steven at lake with activities, Cut ins, Cut aways

We see boys playing, families, and bird life.

In my new home, I was a regular visitor to the Shenton Lake, which was to be my Eldorado. Here I became part of a closely knit gang of youthful regulars ‘the Rosalie boys,’ who regularly met around this water hole.

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People relaxing Sound of boys playing

4 Early photographs panned


We made our own boats, fought naval battles,

V/O Sound of boys playing

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LS of young Steven playing

Played in the water V/O Water splashes, Sound of boys playing

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MS of young Steven

Skipped stones V/O Sound of boys playing,

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Photo if no turtles

caught turtles, V/O Sound of boys playing

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MCU climbed trees, V/O Sound of boys playing

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Photos zoom built forts V/O Sound of boys playing

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MS of young Steven with friends

swam V/O Sound of boys playing

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WS of young Steven with friends

Tug of wars V/O Sound of boys playing

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MS of young Steven with friends

ball V/O Sound of boys playing

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WS of young Steven

jumped V/O Sound of boys playing

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CU and enjoyed the bird and wildlife.

V/O BIRD CALLS

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LS Young Steven playing with friends

We see historical and color photographs, and video illustrating youthful activities on the lake.

STEVEN MALLEY (CONT’D) We enjoyed daily fun filled routines at this lake during our wonderful lazy carefree days.


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WS Young Steven playing with friends

cricket V/O Sound of boys playing

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kites V/O Sound of boys playing

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MS Young Steven playing with friends

marbles, V/O Sound of boys playing

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MS Young Steven playing with friends

skimming stones, V/O Sound of boys playing

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and bows and arrows.


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PUBLIC ACTIVITIES BBQ PICNICS ETC

Others enjoyed the lake as well. We were all part of a cohesive band of carefree youth.


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FILM OF WILDLIFE

When punished, we'd usually seek out our friends and meet at the lake to commiserate on our misfortunes. The still waters and water fowl contributed to my sense of renewal and well-being.

V/O Sound of boys playing BIRDS

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Yet the lake did have its dramas.

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MS Steven EXT. GAMBLING - DAY Steven overlooks the swampy part of Shenton Park Lake where gambling used to occur and points. .

STEVEN MALLEY One thing I remember, is Mr. Percy Johnson, a local barber, running a small gambling den at the lake.

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BLACK AND WHITE

W/S Gamblers CU cards

A group of men are drinking and gambling, while a boy keeps watch for the police. The boy runs back reporting police and the men scatter

PERCY JOHNSON You boy, keep watch for the copper.

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MS Percy Place your bets now, let’s get this game on the road.

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Insert this photo

BOY (Calling out) He’s coming! Run.

v/o

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LS men scrambling

Men get up and scramble away.

PERCEY JOHNSON Let’s get out of here!

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MS Steve,

EXT. GARDEN FENCE - DAY Steven stands in the back lane overlooking a fenced garden. We see Young Steven stealing milk, and entering a garden and looking around, then they run with fruit, being chased by a shouting adult. They are caught and smacked

STEVEN MALLEY From the lake we'd. launch expeditions.

V/O Sounds of boys whispering and running

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LS Young Steven with friend in back lane

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WS drinking from bottle

We would steal milk V/O Sounds of boys whispering and running

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MS Eating fruit

And collect fruit from the surrounding properties


LS entering backyard

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MCU of boys eating

We’d enter back yards to collect mulberries,


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MCU of boys eating

apples or anything in season.


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LS Young Steven running, caught and smacked.

Occasionally we’re chased and caught, given some of advice and smacked.


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EXT. STEAM TRAINS - DAY We see shots of the Hotham Valley steam train or we see

the Railway Museum in Midland.

STEVEN MALLEY I loved watching the steam trains, on their way from Fremantle to Perth

Noise of steam train approaching whistle

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MS Young Steven swapping with other boys and CU of a label

Young boys are seen swapping cigarette packages.

While we waited we’d swap empty cigarette packages.

V/O

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MS track We see boys placing something on the track

Once, to my shame, I even placed 303 bullets

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CU Train wheel WS Young Steven running away as a train approaches.

on the track and watched the engine run over them.

V/O the bangs of exploding shells and a ricochet of bullets.

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Historical Photos with Steven’s green screen image superimposed

EXT. WANDERINGS - DAY Steven stands in front of a variety of sites

delivering dialogue, including Crawley Baths

STEVEN MALLEY With the Rosalie boys I explored the environs. Life was an adventure. We were regular visitors at Crawley Baths where, with great trepidation, I’d leap from the high board.

V/O splashes

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MS of Young Steven with friend

Winthrop tower, We'd launch parachutes from the top of Winthrop tower.

V/O

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WS of Young Steven with friend

Dogs Home, Then we'd head off to see the dogs home.

V/O

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MS of Young Steven with friend looking at lake birds

Perry Lakes We’d view the water fowl of Perry Lakes.

V/O

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MS of Young Steven with friend with view

Reabold Hill We’d admired the scenery, and

V/O

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LS of Young Steven with friend

and the limestone quarry in Reabold Hill. We see historical photographs.

explored the limestone quarries of Reabold Hill.

V/O

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LS Young Steven, Photograph of diving

We’ve often stop off for a swim at Cottesloe beach, diving from the pylon,

V/O Waves, splashes

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MCU throwing stone

Boy is seen throwing stones over a sand dune.

Sometimes we got into nasty mischief.

V/O seagulls

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WS Young Steven running

An adult emerges, shouting and chases them.

shouts

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LS Young Steven with friends

We see boys throwing stones onto a tin roof

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LS Young Steven with friends

then running away. Clatter Running steps

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VCU Filling bag with mud

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SHENTON BRIDGE

LS, establishing, Then WS Cu down

We see boys lowering a bag on a string from a railway bridge onto the road

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WS a car stopping, driver gets out and walks to bag, then pulling up the bag.

Door slam, footsteps

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MCU, Young Steven shooting

We see a boy with ging trying to hit the street light,

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WS at Shenton Park station

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MS then see him sobbing in a jail cell.

crying

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Green screen MCU Steven projected over early photos

My brothers and I took up racing push carts,

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Then we rode an old BMW down back lanes.

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Eventually, we raced at Claremont where my brother Barry won many awards until he died in a bike accident in 1962.

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STEVEN MALLEY (CONT’D) It’s fortunate that I was to spend much of my time at Rosalie Primary School as I was quite mischievous as a boy.

V/O

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MS Steven EXT. ROSALIE SCHOL - DAY Steven is seen walking above Rosalie school, talking about his experiences

STEVEN MALLEY The school opened in 1906

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MS Steven I’d steal away to the Bushland

V/O

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MS Young Steven in bushland pretending to smoke

for forbidden activities

V/O

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MCU Young Steven enacts caning by headmaster, pulled by ear

and consequently I was a regular candidate for caning, three strokes on each hand

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MCU cane V/O Wacks of cane

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VCU Wacks of cane

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I recall special events of the time, regattas,

V/O

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the Jubilee celebrations of 1951,

V/O

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the coronation of 1953,

V/O

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and the visit by the Queen in 1954 and 1956.

V/O

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WS Steven in front of site

Views of Centennial Memorial Gardens.

STEVEN MALLEY (CONT’D) The memorial garden at the school celebrates some of the teachers such as Miss Lipfert who instilled good manners in all of us.

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Yet in spite of their dedicated efforts, we used every opportunity to get away. I used to steal off from school to visit an old home near Kings Park


It made us feel like aristocracy.

HORSE NEIGHS

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And was a grand adventure.

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But too soon, we had finished primary school and were working part-time.

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WS Young Steven holds newspaper, waves it,

EXT. EMPLOYMENT - DAY We see a Young Steven selling newspapers on the corner of Hay Street and Rokeby Road. .

STEVEN MALLEY My first job was selling newspapers.

V/O Shouts ‘papers for sale’

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After being dismissed, I’ve worked at the Shenton Park bakery delivering bread with a horse-drawn cart.

V/O NEIGH OF HORSE

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I then delivered ice to people putting the frigid heavy blocks in ice boxes in their homes

V/O DOOR ICE BEING CHOPPED

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I enjoyed these jobs with their contact with horses which were just beginning to be replaced by motor vehicles.

Neigh of horse

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EXT. PERTH - DAY We see historical photographs of theaters and ballrooms.

STEVEN MALLEY As I finished primary school. I was permitted more freedom. I got to visit Perth on Saturdays

Dance music

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to watch movies with the gang. Many of these places are gone. I attended the glamorous Ambassadors Theatre, with its pretty usherettes.


Occasionally I’d dance at the Canterbury Court ballroom

Dance music

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On the way home we’d stop off at Bethell Thurston, a hardware store with its impressive large bowie knives.

City noises

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We see Steven in front of a statue of Percy Button.

We’d watch Percy Button doing his acrobatics.

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Archival footage

We see Bob Dyer on a TV clip from 1963.

Later we'd watch Bob Dyer on TV.

V/O

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STEVEN MALLEY (CONT’D) I attended this school for a year, to learn building in order to help my stepfather George.

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More studious Rosalie students went to the Perth Boys High School, on James Street.

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We see historical photographs of Roe

Street brothels.

STEVEN MALLEY (CONT’D) One highlight was teasing the ladies of the night on Roe Street who would try to throw buckets of water on us.

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Green screen MCU Steven projected over early photos,

We see Steven at Cottesloe beach, surfing and appropriate shots related to surviving aspects of the Shenton Park environment.

STEVEN MALLEY (CONT’D) Following the death of my step dad we moved away from Shenton Park to Wembley and I lost contact with the lake and my old friends. I joined the North Cottesloe Surf Lifesaving Club

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Stock Footage of surfing

and became an avid surfer, traveling to Hawaii.

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MS Steven gets out of BMW outside family home

STEVEN MALLEY (CONT’D) Later I got married, raised a family of two successful children of whom I’m proud and sold real estate.

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LS Steven

EXT. EXPLORING SHENTON PARK TODAY - DAY We follow Steven as he explores Shenton Park today.

STEVEN MALLEY Time moves on but many aspects of my old Shenton Park environs remain as I explore it today. I still enjoy the Sheoak,

V/O Sounds of nature, birds

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CU Banksias, VO Sounds of nature, birds

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LS Steven in bushland

the almost impenetrable Bushland,

V/O

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CU Steven

Kangaroo Paws, wild-flowers,


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WS

and the majestic Tuarts.


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CU The Wattles are, still, all there.


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So is the small pine plantation.

Sounds of nature, birds

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2

CU The Lake remains with its prolific animal

and bird life,

Sounds of nature, birds

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LS enjoyed by young children

Sounds of nature, birds CHILDRENS VOICES

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LS and the old alike. Sounds of nature, birds

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WS Steven in front of a house

We see some workers houses, constructed of Jarrah fibro board, and some better houses north of Onslow road.

STEVEN MALLEY I still explore Shenton Park today. As I look at the real estate I notice the old class differences with the homes of workers north of Onslow road

Ambient noise

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MS Steven in front of a house

and the better class of home to the South. However, proximity to the city is making Shenton Park real estate highly valuable. New homes are larger and more expensive.

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We see a historical photograph of the hotel

STEVEN MALLEY (CONT’D) One notable building, the Shenton Park Hotel, built in 1907,

TOWN NOISES

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WS Steven and pictures of different aspects of the Shenton Park Hotel today

was initially planned to secure

TOWN NOISES

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CU including APPROPRIATE CUT-INS, EG lace iron, veranda, ETC

trade from the Subiaco Football Club at Shenton Lake.

TOWN NOISES

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CU chimneys TOWN NOISES

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CU and a close-up of the plaque

It has played an important part in my life.

TOWN NOISES

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MS Enactment with Young Steven and friend with adult

We see a group of boys negotiating the purchase of a bottle of port, from an adult and drinking.

STEVEN MALLEY (CONT’D) Here I'd my first taste of liquor bought from an old soldier.

V/O

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We see photographs of reunion members.

STEVEN MALLEY (CONT’D) Recently this hotel has been the site of Rosalie school reunions. These reunions of aged Rosalie Primary School students are held annually.

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Photograph They’re attended by some Rosalie alumni who have become famous. There’s, for instance, Charles Court, former premier of Western Australia.

V/O

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Photograph STEVEN MALLEY (CONT’D) The reunions give me an opportunity to reestablish contact with my Rosalie friends.

V/O

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MCU Steven at lake

I've been asked how I became a 'rascal.' I possessed no father from age three to seven years. No parental guidance was obtained at the Boys' Home. I grew up, afterwards, as one of large mixed family with little supervision.

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MS Steven We see Steven at Shenton Lake

These reunions bring back my memories of an earlier times when we were carefree, healthy youth in Shenton Park

Noise of nature, birds

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MS Young Steven

looking at Young Steven playing

Like me, many reunionists wish they could call back to the lake to relive their earlier days.

Children chatting, laughing

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LS Young Steven

Lake looking at Young Steven playing

Yet few of these 'the boys of the lake' make the pilgrimage

Children chatting, laughing

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CU CEMETARY

and I’ve lost contact with most of them. Some sadly have 'permanent addresses.'

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WS Lake Steven

Today when I visit the lake, I reflect: “How I wish to turn back the hands of time, relive my adventurous youth by the

Calls of children

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LS Young Steven playing

lake and once again hear the laughter, of my friends, those indomitable Rosalie 'boys of the lake.’

V/O Calls of children SCROLL CREDITS SLOW FADE

Fade music

Documents

Boys of the Lake - Don Pugh DON/Picture Archive/About Don 2011...Boys of the Lake Memoirs of Growing Up in Shenton Park, WA This is the docudrama about Steven, and his mischievous