- For 45 years, the controversial 1968 BBC film Autopsy On A Dream was thought to be lost. But miraculously, a copy was discovered in the vaults of ABC Television by a researcher working on content for the 40th Anniversary of the Sydney Opera House. In 2013 the film was screened at the Sydney Opera House and aired for the first time on Australian television. The screening was introduced by a new prologue The Dream Of Perfection which chronicles the drama behind the making of the 1968 film.
- In 1968, John Weiley shot 'Autopsy on a Dream' a film on the Sydney Opera House which detailed the construction process of the Opera House, and the politics of Jorn Utzons dismissal. The documentary was controversial, it was screened once, and then John Weiley was told it had been destroyed. Forty five years later a copy of the film was discovered in the BBC vaults by an ABC producer looking for archive footage of the Opera House. A surprised Weiley was contacted and told about a mystery film that had no sound track. Weiley was overjoyed. For years hed sentimentally kept the original sound. So began the painstaking process of restoring this record of a unique moment in Australian culture to its former glory, complete with updated voice-over from the original narrator Bob Ellis. Now Autopsy on a Dream, a cultural treasure in its own right, will finally have the Australian screening it deserves. The film will be set in context by a thirty-minute prologue entitled The Dream of Perfection. Made by the same filmmaker, John Weiley, forty-five years on, it tells the story of the 1968 films fate; from commission to destruction, to surprise resurrection. It features interviews with Sir David Attenborough, Jan and Lin Utzon (the sons of Jorn Utzon) and architect Richard le Plaistrier, plus many others.
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