The Queen in Australia

The Queen in Australia

🎞️ Movie 68 min GB
โ˜… 6.9 /10 1954

In 1954, recently crowned Queen Elizabeth II and HRH the Duke of Edinburgh embarked on a two month tour of Australia. It involved some 10,000 miles of travel by air and 4,000 miles by land and sea. The couple visited every state in the nation, and turned up at all sorts of events, from tennis at Kooyong to steel mills in Newcastle to woodchopping at Wagga to the Flying Doctor Service Service at Broken Hill. The film production arm of the federal government - the Film Division of the News and Information Bureau of the Department of the Interior - decided to cover the tour in 35mm colour film, sending the footage to England for processing and editing. Six weeks after the tour ended, the film was finished and became the first feature-length Australian film shot and financed by Australians in colour to be given a theatrical release.

Cast

Peter Finch
Peter Finch
Narrator
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Wilfrid Thomas
Narrator
Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Elizabeth II
Self
Self
Prince Philip
Prince Philip
Self
Self
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Frank Basden
Bruce Beeby
Bruce Beeby
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John Cazabon
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Wendy Gibb
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Clive Douglas
Composer
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Robert Hughes
Composer
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Charles Mackerras
Composer
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Joseph Post
Composer
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Frank Bagnall
Cinematographer
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Edward Cranstone
Cinematographer
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David Eastman
Cinematographer
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Dennis Hill
Cinematographer