'Demonstrator was a logical step for Freeman Fishburn Productions. We were experienced television and stage producers and directors, having driven the innovative and popular shows of the time - Mavis Brampston, Bandstand, Jacques Brel etc etc. I had moved into movies with the Goldsworthy features... it was time to direct an Australian feature. We were certainly ahead of the game... Demonstrator was 1971, the Australian Film Commission was not formed until 1973 and after that came Picnic and Mad Max and Caddie and ....funding. In hindsight, we should have waited! ' (Introduction)