DAMIEN PARER AND CHESTER WILMOT AT TOBRUK.

Quadrant | July 1, 2000| | Copyright

ONE OF THE GREAT unsung masterpieces of Australian documentary film is Mervyn Scales and Arthur Higgins' Sons of the Anzacs. Scripted and narrated by Chester Wilmot and Damien Parer (for a sequence he covered outside Salamaua) and using the voice of the young Peter Finch, Sons of the Anzacs was a compilation made up of the footage shot by Department of Information and Australian Army cameramen of the war up to 1943. It remains one of the most accurate uses of actuality footage to appear during the Second World War. During its preparation it was compared unfairly to Harry ...

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