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    A brief history of Metro

    May 05, 2019 4 minutes

    WAYNE LEVY

    Committee member, ATFAV

    This excerpt has been reprinted from Metro’s 100th issue (Summer 1995) with minor adjustments. In memory of Wayne Levy (1944–2003).

    Little did a small group of educators / film enthusiasts sitting around drinking coffee in Ed Schefferle’s office at the State Film Centre in 1963 imagine that the Association of Teachers of Film Appreciation (ATFA) quarterly newsletter we were planning would still be published and read thirty years down the track.

    A roneoed publication of eighteen pages was surreptitiously printed and distributed by Schefferle as a ‘semi-official’ SFC publication. The newsletter was mostly written and edited by John

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