the short advertisements/commercials he produced during his career, both for Shell and through his own company. The early years Heritage (General hand, 1935) Thoroughbred (General hand, 1936) White Death (Sound recordist, 1936) Holiday (Producer, 1939) 2000 Below (Director and Scriptwriter, 1939) Forty Thousand Horsemen (Cinematographer, 1940) It Wasn't Luck (Director and Scriptwriter, 1940) New Pastures (Director and Scriptwriter, 1940) Indonesia Calling (Camera for the scene which became the opening sequence, 1945) Jungle Conquest (Producer, Director and Scriptwriter, 1946) The Australian National Film Board years Native Earth (Producer, Director and Scriptwriter, 1946) The Overlanders (Second Unit Director and Scriptwriter, 1946) Born in the Sun (Producer and Director, 1947) Journey of a Nation (Producer and Director, 1947) Lamb: The Story of the Fat Lamb Industry in Australia (Producer, 1947) Men and Mobs (Producer and Director, 1947) Born in the Sun (Producer and Director, 1948) The Cane Cutters (Producer, 1948) Knowledge Unlimited (Producer and Director, 1948) Turn the Soil (Producer and Director, 1948) The Valley is Ours (Director and Scriptwriter, 1948) Watch the video Kill As We Go (1948) The Shell years Shellubrication (Producer and Director, 1951) Rankin's Springs is West (Producer, 1951) Saving Petrol: Correct Driving (Producer, 1952) The Back of Beyond (Producer, Director, Scriptwriter, Dialogue/Narration, 1954) Getting out of Trouble (Producer, 1954) On Stream (Producer, 1954) Playing with Water (Director, 1955) Let's Go (Producer and Director, 1956) Thrill Drivers (Producer, 1956) Saving Petrol: Correct Lubrication (Producer, 1956) Saving Petrol: Correct Maintenance (Producer, 1956) The Forerunner (Director, 1957) Ball and Chain (Director, 1957) City of Geelong (Producer, 1957) Paving the Way (Producer, 1957) Shell Paying Bay (Producer, 1958) OR The Paying Bay Arid Lands (Producer and Director, 1960) This is it (Producer, c.1960) Tumut Pond (Producer and Director, 1962) The Later yearsRace Day (Producer, 1966)Infinite Pacific (Producer, 1969)Visible Manifestations (Director, 1975)The South Seas (Director, 1976)The Reef (Producer, Director and Scriptwriter, 1977)Hatta the Oasis (Producer and Scriptwriter, 1980)Mina Jebel Ali (Director, 1980)Dubai: State of Change (Director, 1980)Explorer Safari (Director, 1985)The Reef Builders (Producer, 1985) Notes References Cottle, Drew and Keys, Angela (2006) "From Colonial Film Commissioner to political pariah: Joris Ivens and the making of Indonesia Calling" Dawson, Jonathan (2006) "Australia" in Aitken, Ian (ed) "Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film", New York, Routledge, pp 56– 61 Glenn, Gordon and Stocks, Ian (1976) "John Heyer: Documentary Filmmaker" [Interview] in Cinema papers Sept 1976 pp120–122, 190 Hayward, Anthony (2001) "Obituary: John Heyer" in The Independent