The Queen in Australia
6.9
In 1954, recently crowned Queen Elizabeth II and HRH the Duke of Edinburgh embarked on a two month tour of Australia. It involved some 10,000 miles of travel by air and 4,000 miles by land and sea. The couple visited every state in the nation, and turned up at all sorts of events, from tennis at Kooyong to steel mills in Newcastle to woodchopping at Wagga to the Flying Doctor Service Service at Broken Hill. The film production arm of the federal government - the Film Division of the News and Information Bureau of the Department of the Interior - decided to cover the tour in 35mm colour film, sending the footage to England for processing and editing. Six weeks after the tour ended, the film was finished and became the first feature-length Australian film shot and financed by Australians in colour to be given a theatrical release.
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Peter Finch
Self - Narrator
Known for
Network
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Frank Bagnall
Jack S Allan
Stanley Hawes
Colin Dean
Wilfrid Thomas
Self - Narrator
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
Queen Elizabeth II
Also in
ITV Exposure
A Jubilee Tribute to The Queen by The Prince of Wales
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Prince Philip
Also in
World in Action
A Jubilee Tribute to The Queen by The Prince of Wales
Robert Gordon Menzies
Robert Gordon Menzies
Don Bradman
Don Bradman
Colin Dean Director
First release January 1, 1954
Languages
Original language
English
Release dates
Australia · January 1, 1954
United Kingdom · May 18, 1954
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
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