Kokoda Front Line!
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Kokoda Front Line! | |
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![]() Damien Parer and Papuan Assistant filming Kokoda Front Line, 1942, from album of prints held by State Library of New South Wales[1] | |
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, about the Kokoda Track campaign. 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.[2][3]
Much of Parer's footage was used in a documentary made by a rival company, Movietone, The Road to Kokoda.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ PXA 25 archival.sl.nsw.gov.au
- ^ De Souza, P. "Kokoda Front Line! (1942)". australianscreen (National Film and Sound Archive Australia). Retrieved 11 June 2017.
- ^ Taylor, B. "Australias First Oscar". National Film and Sound Archive Australia. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
External links
[edit]- Kokoda Front Line! on Youtube
- Kokoda Front Line! at IMDb
- Kokoda Front Line at Oz Movies
- The short film Kokoda Front Line! is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive.
Categories:
- 1942 films
- Best Documentary Feature Academy Award winners
- 1940s short documentary films
- Australian short documentary films
- Australian World War II propaganda films
- Australian black-and-white films
- Pacific War films
- Films directed by Ken G. Hall
- Films set in Papua New Guinea
- Kokoda
- 1942 documentary films
- 1940s English-language films
- 1940s Australian films
- Australian film stubs
- 1940s film stubs
- World War II documentary film stubs