Kokoda Front Line!
Appearance
Kokoda Front Line! | |
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Directed by | Ken G. Hall |
Cinematography | Damien Parer |
Edited by | Terry Banks |
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Running time | 9 minutes |
Country | Australia |
Language | English |
Kokoda Front Line! was a full-length edition of the Australian newsreel, Cinesound Review, produced by the Australian News & Information Bureau and Cinesound Productions Limited in 1942. It was one of four winners of the 15th Academy Awards for best documentary, and the first Australian film to win an Oscar. It was filmed by the Australian war photographer Damien Parer and directed by Ken G. Hall.
Damien Parer is often cited as one of Australia's early Academy Award winners, however the award was made to the director, Ken G. Hall.
Much of Parer's footage was used in a documentary made by a rival company, Movietone, The Road to Kokoda.
See also
External links
- Kokoda Front Line! at IMDb
- Kokoda Front Line at Oz Movies
- Complete film online courtesy Australian govt.
- Kokoda Front Line! at the Australian screen
- One of the Eyemo cameras used by Parer while filming Kokoda Front Line! can be seen at National Museum Australia, Canberra
Categories:
- 1942 films
- Australian films
- Best Documentary Feature Academy Award winners
- Australian documentary films
- Australian short films
- Australian war films
- Australian World War II propaganda films
- English-language films
- Australian black-and-white films
- Pacific War films
- Films directed by Ken G. Hall
- Films set in Papua New Guinea
- Australian documentary film stubs
- War documentary film stubs