The Pearlers
Directed byLee Robinson
Produced byStanley Hawes
CinematographyFrank Bagnall
Edited byJack Rogers
Music byDulcie Holland
Production
company
Release date
1949
Running time
12 mins
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

The Pearlers is a 1949 documentary film from director Lee Robinson about the pearling industry off the coast of Broome.[1] Robinson later used a similar background for his feature King of the Coral Sea (1954).[2]

The film was released to cinemas as a support feature, which was not common at the time,[3][4] and has since come to be regarded as a minor classic of Australian documentary filmmaking.[5]

References

  1. Robinson, Lee (15 August 1976). "Lee Robinson" (Oral history). Interviewed by Graham Shirley. National Film and Sound Archive.
  2. Richard Kuipers, King of the Coral Sea at Australian Screen Online
  3. Lee Robinson interview with Albert Moran, Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture vol. 1 no 1 (1987)
  4. "TALKING OF FILMS". The Australian Women's Weekly. 13 August 1949. p. 42. Retrieved 30 August 2015 via National Library of Australia.
  5. 'Touring Australian Films 2011' at Broome Movies
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