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    Kokoda Front Line! was a full-length edition of the Australian newsreel, Cinesound Review, produced by the Australian News & Information Bureau and Cinesound...
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    The Kokoda Track or Trail is a single-file foot thoroughfare that runs 96 kilometres (60 mi) overland – 60 kilometres (37 mi) in a straight line – through...
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    The Kokoda Track campaign or Kokoda Trail campaign was part of the Pacific War of World War II. The campaign consisted of a series of battles fought between...
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    He was cinematographer for Australia's first Oscar-winning film, Kokoda Front Line!, an edition of the weekly newsreel, Cinesound Review, which was produced...
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    The Battle of Kokoda consisted of two engagements fought in late July – early August 1942. Forming part of the Kokoda Track campaign of the Second World...
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  • photographer Damien Parer (1912–1944) also appears in Kokoda Front Line!. The Kokoda Front Line! is an iconic and Academy Award-winning newsreel shot by Damien...
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    West Pacific (1943). His most notable newsreel was the Oscar-winning Kokoda Front Line (1942) – the first time an Australian film/documentary was awarded...
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  • Documentaries". Academy Film Archive. 4 September 2014. De Souza, P. "Kokoda Front Line! (1942)". australianscreen (National Film and Sound Archive Australia)...
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  • Natural History of a Woman) 1940 1 5 Knighty Knight Bugs 1958 1 1 Kokoda Front Line! 1942 1 1 Kon-Tiki 1950 1 1 Krakatoa 1932/33 1 1 Kukan 1941 0 (1)...
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    Hall became the first Australian to win an Oscar for his documentary Kokoda Front Line! in the Best Documentary category. Suzanne Baker was the first Australian...
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  • Major and the Minor 17 September In Which We Serve (GB) 18 September Kokoda Front Line! (Australia) Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror 21 September...
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    although the first Academy Award was won for an Australian film, Kokoda Front Line!. The industry picked back up during the 1970s with one of the first...
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    Indigenous language (Yolngu). Ken G. Hall's 1942 documentary feature Kokoda Front Line! was the first Australian film to win an Academy Award. In 1976, Peter...
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    UK, and saw the loss of a guaranteed market for Australian films. Kokoda Front Line! (1942), directed by Ken G. Hall, won Australia's first Oscar. Chips...
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    service to bring supplies up to the front and carry injured Australian troops down the Kokoda trail during the Kokoda Campaign. "Fuzzy-Wuzzy" was originally...
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    1942 by Damien Parer filming the Academy Award-winning documentary, Kokoda Front Line!, in New Guinea is held at National Museum Australia Canberra Booknotes...
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    Australian media. He accepted the Oscar won by the Australian documentary Kokoda Front Line! (1943), met Australian Senator Richard Keane, the Minister for Trade...
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  • Kokoda (also known as Kokoda - 39th Battalion) is a 2006 Australian war film directed by Alister Grierson and is based on the experiences of Australian...
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    39th Battalion (Australia) (category Kokoda)
    Parer's 1942 film Kokoda Front Line, and more recently in the 2006 Australian movie Kokoda, which was based partly on Victor Austin's To Kokoda and Beyond....
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  • Buckner Best Documentary The Battle of Midway – United States Navy‡ Kokoda Front Line! – Australian News and Information Bureau‡ Moscow Strikes Back – Artkino‡...
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  • for Best Documentary Feature Film 1942–1975 The Battle of Midway / Kokoda Front Line! / Moscow Strikes Back / Prelude to War (1942) Desert Victory (1943)...
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  • profitability within three years. In 1942, Cinesound co-produced Kokoda Front Line!, the first Australian film to win an Academy Award. A full-length...
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    Drama / Short Jewel of the Pacific Frank Hurley ? Short documentary Kokoda Front Line! Damien Parer (camera) Peter Bathurst, Damien Parer War documentary...
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    photographer, cinematographer for Australia's first Oscar-winning film Kokoda Front Line Steve Pizzati – former Top Gear Australia host, motoring commentator...
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  • wins its first Oscar, with cinematographer Damien Parer honoured for Kokoda Front Line! documentary. 2,815 Australian POWs die constructing Japan's Burma-Thailand...
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    indigenous language. The first Australian Oscar was won by 1942's Kokoda Front Line!, directed by Ken G. Hall. Television broadcasting began in Australia...
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  • researched) Notable Australian Government Films of the 1940s-1950s: Kokoda Front Line! (1942) - First Australian film to win an Oscar, for Best Documentary...
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  • Year Title Director Notes 1941 Advance to Libya Frank Hurley 1942 Kokoda Front Line! Ken G. Hall Won Academy Award for Documentary Feature 1942 Men of...
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  • Megrue Koko: A Talking Gorilla 1978 Barbet Schroeder Margaret Ménégoz Kokoda Front Line 1942 Ken G. Hall and Damien Parer Kokoyakyu: High School Baseball...
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    Battle of Ioribaiwa took place between 14 and 16 September 1942, during the Kokoda Track campaign in Papua during the Second World War. Involving forces from...
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