Bibliographic record
Abstract
Frank Hurley is best known today as a photographer and filmmaker, and it has become common to refer to his major works by the titles of his documentary films: The Home of the Blizzard , In the Grip of the Polar Pack-Ice , Sir Ross Smith's Flight and Pearls and Savages . But Hurley did not work in a single medium: he was an old-fashioned showman whose repertoire included both traditional and modern media, which he used in both old and new ways. The shows he put on at the height of his fame in the 1910s and 1920s were not documentary films in the modern sense, but complex multimedia performances that he called ‘synchronized lecture entertainments’. They used a combination of photographic exhibition, saturation newspaper coverage, the presence of a celebrity lecturer or ‘platform personality’, silent cinema projection, coloured glass lantern slides, live musical accompaniment, themed theatre decorations, and mainstream book publication, all ‘tied in’ to achieve maximum advertising exposure. The performances were entertaining as well as educational, drawing as much attention to their own attractions as to the events they purported to represent. There was about them a sense of self-promotion and opportunistic contrivance that sometimes attracted criticism: they smacked of what contemporary pressmen called stunts. Hurley's shows toured Australia's capital cities and regional towns and they often took place simultaneously overseas by arrangement with various entertainment agencies in New Zealand, Great Britain, Europe, the United States and Canada.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.573 | 0.390 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; the direct Gemma label and the distilled Codex classifier agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".