''Kokoda Front Line!'' was a full-length edition of the Australian
newsreel
A newsreel is a form of short documentary film, containing news stories and items of topical interest, that was prevalent between the 1910s and the mid 1970s. Typically presented in a cinema, newsreels were a source of current affairs, informa ...
, Cinesound Review, produced by the Australian News & Information Bureau and
Cinesound Productions Limited in 1942, about the
Kokoda Track campaign
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 July and November 1942 in what was then the Australian Territory of Papua. It was primar ...
. It was one of four winners of the
15th Academy Awards for best documentary, and the first Australian film to win an Oscar. It was filmed by the Australian war photographer
Damien Parer
Damien Peter Parer (1 August 1912 – 17 September 1944) was an Australian war photographer. He became famous for his war photography of the Second World War, and was killed by Japanese machine-gun fire at Peleliu, Palau. He was cinematographer ...
and directed by
Ken G. Hall
Kenneth George Hall, AO, OBE (22 February 1901 – 8 February 1994), better known as Ken G. Hall, was an Australian film producer and director, considered one of the most important figures in the history of the Australian film industry. ...
.
Damien Parer is often cited as one of Australia's early Academy Award winners, however the award was made to the director, Ken G. Hall.
Much of Parer's footage was used in a documentary made by a rival company, Movietone, ''
The Road to Kokoda''.
See also
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List of Allied propaganda films of World War II
During World War II and immediately after it, in addition to the many private films created to help the war effort, many Allied countries had governmental or semi-governmental agencies commission propaganda and training films for home and foreig ...
References
External links
''Kokoda Front Line!'' on Youtube*
''Kokoda Front Line''at Oz Movies
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Best Documentary Feature Academy Award winners
1942 films
1940s short documentary films
Australian short documentary films
Australian World War II propaganda films
Australian black-and-white films
Pacific War films
Films directed by Ken G. Hall
Films set in Papua New Guinea
Kokoda
1942 documentary films
1940s English-language films
1940s Australian films
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