Newsfront

Newsfront (1978)

Two brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in '50s Australia find their lives dramatically affected by the constantly changing times in which they live.

Erscheinungsdatum
1978-07-29
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (13)
Laufzeit
1 Std. 50 Min.
Genres
Drama
Regie
Phillip Noyce

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

  • Einspielergebnis: 1,6 Mio. AU$
  • Auszeichnungen: 7 · Nominierungen: 12. Darunter: AACTA Award for Best Film; AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role; AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role; AACTA Award for Best Costume Design

Newsfront is a 1978 Australian drama film directed by Phillip Noyce, and starring Bill Hunter, Wendy Hughes, Chris Haywood and Bryan Brown. The screenplay is written by David Elfick, Bob Ellis, Philippe Mora, and Noyce. The original music score is composed by William Motzing. Shot on location in Sydney, Australia, the film is shot in black and white, and colour, incorporating actual newsreel footage.

Production

Phil Noyce showed a copy of his short film Castor and Pollux to David Elfick, a magazine publisher who had made a number of successful surf movies. Elfick, along with Mike Molloy and Philippe Mora, had been discussing making a film about newsreel cameramen of the 1940s and 1950s who worked for such companies as Movietone and Cinesound Productions.

Elfick hired Bob Ellis to write the screenplay because he admired The Legend of King O'Malley, a play Ellis co-wrote with Michael Boddy. Ellis says he wrote the first draft with Howard Rubie, who had been a cameraman for Cinesound and thought he was going to direct the film. Anne Brooksbank later contributed to the script. Noyce was hired as director and worked with Ellis. Ellis fell out with Noyce and demanded his name be taken off the credits.

There was some nonsense about how long it was; we'd set it out, one short scene per page and it finally came out about 300 pages or so but, in fact, it was maybe two and a quarter hours long, which wasn't too bad then or now for something that covered 10 years. But a legend started about how huge it was. When I saw it, I was appalled. I could only see what was missing and abruptly took my name off it.

Funding was provided by the Australian Film Commission and the New South Wales Film Corporation.

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