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June 1954
THE CINE-TECHNICIAN
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Members of the Australian Government Film Unit which accompanied the Royal party throughout Australia: Associate Producer, J. S. Allan; in charge of Cameramen, Frank Bagnall; Cameramen, Frank McKechnie, David Eastman, George Lowe.
Australia's first full-length colour film fully deserves the high praise it has had from British critics and audiences. At " Cine's " request, Stanley Hawes, producer of the film, has written an account of the many problems and difficulties encountered when planning and making the film. A one-time treasurer of A.C.T., Stanley was well known in British documentary films before he took up his present post of Producer-inChief of the Australian Government Film Division.
Filming THE QUEEN
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AUSTRALIA
by STANLEY HAWES
THE Royal Visit to Australia, 3rd February to 1st April, 1954, was an event without parallel in the history of Australia, and it called for a film record worthy of the occasion. My instructions from the Minister of the Interior, to whom the Film Division is responsible, were quite simple. He wanted a better film than " A Queen is Crowned."
No full-length film in a three-colour process had been made in Australia by an Australian unit. A couple of local two-colour processes were available. Technicolor was out of the question. Kodaks said flatly that Eastman Colour stock would not be available in Australia for months. Ansco needed dollars. This left a choice of Ferraniacolor, which had just come on to the Australia market, and Gevacolor, in which a few short films had been made and in which Charlie Chauvel was shooting his current feature, " Jedda." Tests were made, and the technical staff of the Film Division recommended Ferrania. There was not much to choose between the two systems, and small points affected the decision. For instance, it seemed that Ferrania was slightly better for Australian exteriors, Gevacolor for interiors, and we needed film mainly for exteriors. Also, Ferrania was slightly easier to get in Australia.
Accordingly, in the middle of 1953, four onereelers were put into production in Ferrania, so that the cameramen of the Film Division could get the feel of the stock, which they had not used before. In this way the inevitable teething troubles were overcome before the Royal Tour started, and when the cameramen went out on the big film they turned in sixty thousand feet of film with a surprisingly low percentage of technically N.G. footage.