The late Cec Holmes is mentioned in this interesting book , Fighting Films, a history of the Waterside Workers' Federation Film Unit , by Lisa Milner , an academic specialising in film history and cultural studies, who contributed to the Oxford Companion to Australian Film . At one time Cec was editor of the Murdoch journal , The Territorian , produced by the Northern Territory News . He and Sandra Le Brun Holmes were a dynamic team of campaigners for Aborigines and underdogs . Together they made films in Australia and New Guinea . Cec had a close relationship with Communist author Frank Hardy and NT News crusading editor Jim Bowditch. Despite having an eye injured during naval service in WWll, it did not stop Cec from making first class movies , shown in various parts of the world . One was on the life of bushranger Captain Thunderbolt . He was in Darwin at the time of Cyclone Tracy , having done preliminary shooting in the Territory for a possible Hollywood backed movie starring Peter Finch , based on a famous Territory murder , which did not eventuate . Cec it was who made a black and white TV film of Doug Lockwood's award winning book, I, The Aboriginal . ( See previous blogs : LITTLE DARWIN: Cec and Sandra Holmes-Continuing biography of Crusading Editor Big Jim Bowditch and LITTLE DARWIN : Jim Bowditch and the Unlucky Australians . )
