Australian Mutuals History's audio visual collection consists of over 600 films in various incarnations covering conferences and board meetings, marketing material and more. Some of the footage has intriguing titles, such as, “Combat Strategies for Financial Institutions – Jungle Greens or Business Suits”, “Till Debt Do Us Part” and “A Penny Saved”. Another fascinating thing about our AV collection is the amount of it that has been produced by credit unions themselves. Some of it was produced by professional agencies such as, “Pro-Image” and “John Singleton Advertising”, but most of it was made in house.
There certainly is an array of formats in the collection – from Betacam, VHS, CD-Rom, digital video (DVCAM), U-matic DVD to 16mm film. We began a project to digitise these films in 2019 and this work is ongoing. Below is a selection of these films we have digitised so far as well as a compilation we created of some of the films
Orange Credit Union will celebrate its 60th anniversary in December. It was registered as Email (Orange) Employees Credit Union after forming during a special meeting of Email (Orange) employees in
Historically how groundbreaking was the merger between Heritage Bank and People’s Choice? It is true that historical building societies have merged with credit unions, but it appears that it is rare
A new book called A History of Australian Co-operatives 1827-2023 that we were pleased to help with has recently been published. Authored by friends of ours from the University of Sydney Co-operatives
