AustLit

'Two people who made important contributions to the film Waiting for Ham/ recently passed away: Harry D., whose name and significance are incorporated in the title, and Peter Barker, the sound recordist.

'Harry D. was born at Kopanga on the Blyth River about 1920. At the age of eighteen he made his way to Darwin, where he got a job in a Chinese laundry. During the war he worked at the Naval base and in various Army camps. After a spell at Oenpelli in the immediate post-war years, employed by a buffalo hunter, he returned to Darwin where the Native Affairs Branch made him a patrol assistant. Later he worked as a tracker for the Police Department.'  (Introduction)