The Pearlers

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The Pearlers
Directed byLee Robinson
Produced byStanley Hawes
CinematographyFrank Bagnall
Edited byJack Rogers
Music byDulcie Holland
Production
company
Release date
  • 1949 (1949)
Running time
12 mins
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

The Pearlers is a 1949 documentary film from director Lee Robinson about the pearling industry off the coast of Broome.[1] Robinson later used a similar background for his feature King of the Coral Sea (1954).[2][3]

The film was released to cinemas as a support feature, which was not common at the time,[4][5] and has since come to be regarded as a minor classic of Australian documentary filmmaking.[6]

References

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  1. ^ Robinson, Lee (15 August 1976). "Lee Robinson" (Oral history). Interviewed by Graham Shirley. National Film and Sound Archive.
  2. ^ Richard Kuipers, King of the Coral Sea at Australian Screen Online
  3. ^ Vagg, Stephen (5 June 2025). "The Lee Robinson-Chips Rafferty Story Part Two: King of the Coral Sea". Filmink. Retrieved 5 June 2025.
  4. ^ Lee Robinson interview with Albert Moran, Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture vol. 1 no 1 (1987)
  5. ^ "TALKING OF FILMS". The Australian Women's Weekly. 13 August 1949. p. 42. Retrieved 30 August 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ 'Touring Australian Films 2011' at Broome Movies
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