The Pearlers

The Pearlers
Directed by	Lee Robinson
Produced by	Stanley Hawes
Music by	Dulcie Holland
Cinematography	Frank Bagnall
Edited by	Jack Rogers
Production company	Australian National Film Board
Release dates	1949
Running time	12 mins
Country	Australia
Language	English

The Pearlers is a 1949 documentary film from director Lee Robinson about the pearling industry off the coast of Broome. Robinson later used a similar background for his feature King of the Coral Sea (1954).^[1]

The movie was released to cinemas as a support feature, which was not common at the time,^[2]^[3] and has since come to be regarded as a minor classic of Australian documentary filmmaking.^[4]

References

↑ Richard Kuipers, King of the Coral Sea at Australian Screen Online
↑ Lee Robinson interview with Albert Moran, Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture vol. 1 no 1 (1987)
↑ "TALKING OF FILMS.". The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982) (1933 - 1982: National Library of Australia). 13 August 1949. p. 42. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
↑ 'Touring Australian Films 2011' at Broome Movies

External links

The Pearlers at IMDB
Copy of the film on YouTube
The Pearlers at National Film and Sound Archive
The Pearlers at Ozmovies

Lee Robinson

Feature Films	The Phantom Stockman (1953) King of the Coral Sea (1954) Walk Into Paradise (1956) Dust in the Sun (1958) The Stowaway (1958) The Siege of Pinchgut (1959) (story only) The Restless and the Damned (1959) (producer only) The Intruders (1969) Nickel Queen (1971) (producer only) Attack Force Z (1981) (producer only) The Highest Honor (1983) (producer only)

Documentaries	Darwin Gateway to Australia (1946) Namatjira the Painter (1947) The Pearlers (1949) Crocodile Hunters (1949) Flight Plan (1950) Double Trouble (1951) Outback Patrol (1952) Bush Policeman (1953) Switch On Bigga (1954) The Power Makers (1957) Bring Out a Briton (1958) Rock'n'Roll (1959) Water: Our Problem (1962) Kondom Agaundo, M.L.C. (1962) Antarctic Pioneers (1962) District Commissioner (1963) The Unknown Ocean (1964) The Dawn Fraser Story (1964) In Song and Dance' (1964) The Legend of Lasseter (1979)

TV	High Adventure (1950s) Adventure Unlimited (1965) Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (1968–71) Barrier Reef (1971–72) Boney (1972–73) This is Your Life (1975-76) Shannon's Mob (1975–76) Bailey's Bird (1979)

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