The Pearlers

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The Pearlers
Directed by	Lee Robinson
Produced by	Stanley Hawes
Music by	Dulcie Holland
Cinematography	Frank Bagnall
Editing by	Jack Rogers
Studio	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] and has since come to be regarded as a minor classic of Australian documentary filmmaking.^[3]

References

External links

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

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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) 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) Double Trouble (1951) Outback Patrol (1952) Bush Policeman (1953) The Power Makers (1957) Bring Out a Briton (1958) Rock'n'Roll (1959) The Dawn Fraser Story (1964)

TV	High Adventure (1964) Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (1968–71) Barrier Reef (1971–72) Boney (1972–73) Shannon's Mob (1975–76) Bailey's Bird (1979)

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