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A tourist film of Australia. It is not a travelogue but a story combining humour with selling and entertainment with information; highlighting the difficulties of a producer, director and script-writer in the making of a short film which is to show all the tourist attractions of Australia. The film gently (and not so gently) laughs at all those aspects of the Australian way of life that are usually included in films about Australia, and also shows some of the not so well known attractions of the country. (Awards: Gold Award, Travel Category; Australian National Travel Association’s “Jedda Award”; Kodak Silver Award for colour photography, Australian Film Awards, 1965).
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
320725
Language
English
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Motion pictures - Awards
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Australia
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Australia - Description and travel
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Tourist trade
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Tourist trade - Social aspects
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Travel
Documentary → Documentary films - Australia
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Tourist trade - Social aspects
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)
16mm film; Limited Access Print (Section 2)
16mm film; Preservation Print (Section 5)