Rock 'n' Roll (1959 film)

Rock'n'Roll
Directed by	Lee Robinson
Produced by	Lee Robinson
Production company	Southern International
Release date	1959
Running time	9 mins (surviving)
Country	Australia
Language	English

Rock'n'Roll is a 1959 Australian documentary from director Lee Robinson. It is a filmed version of a rock concert at Sydney Stadium presented by Lee Gordon, Lee Gordon's 1959 Rock'n'Roll Spectacular, with some additional scenes such as Fabian arriving at Sydney airport. (Fabian had been mobbed at Melbourne airport by 2,000 teenagers and had to be spirited away on a 10 foot high platform of a forklift truck.^[1])

Only a small portion of footage from the documentary survives today and it is considered a "substantially lost" film.^[2]

Featured acts

The Rebels - without Johnny Rebb
The Delltones - backed by The Rebels
Fabian - backed by The Graduates^[3]
Lee Gordon
Col Joye and the Joy Boys
Johnny Devlin and the Devils
Lonnie Lee
Johnny O'Keefe and the DJs
Warren Williams
The Delltones
The Crescents

Production

Fabian toured Australia for Lee Gordon in October 1959 in The Big Show.^[4]^[5]

References

↑ FABIAN FLEES FROM AUSSIES ON TRUCK LIFT Chicago Daily Tribune (1923-1963) [Chicago, Ill] 19 Oct 1959: b12.
↑ Australia's 'Lost' Films at National Film and Sound Archive
↑ "They've got their diploma". The Australian Women's Weekly. 27, (18). Australia, Australia. 7 October 1959. p. 7 (Teenagers Weekly). Retrieved 24 March 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
↑ "FABULOUS FABIAN LIKES SCHOOL". The Australian Women's Weekly. 27, (22). Australia, Australia. 4 November 1959. p. 15 (Teenagers Weekly). Retrieved 24 March 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
↑ "FABIAN Forte And the lesson he was taught". The Australian Women's Weekly. 27, (21). Australia, Australia. 28 October 1959. p. 4. Retrieved 24 March 2017 – via National Library of Australia.

External links

Lee Robinson
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