Kokoda Front Line

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This newsreel gave Australians the first glimpse of fighting on the Kokoda Trail and was used as propaganda. Photographer Damien Parer and director Ken G Hall restaged several combat scenes and asked viewers to join the war effort. In 1943, it won Australia’s first Oscar.  

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Damien Parer pictured with a Mitchell 35mm camera

1942

The Kokoda Trail, Papua New Guinea, 1942

Papua New Guinea, 1942

The Kokoda Trail, Papua New Guinea, 1942

Papua New Guinea, 1942

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16 February 2031

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The Story of the Moving Image → Moving Minds → MM-01. Spectacle → MM-01-C01

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