newsfront

Director: phillip noyce

Actor: bill hunter,gerard kennedy,wendy hughes,chris haywood

Data Published: Sat Jul 29 1978

Genres: Drama,History

Key Words: australia,graveyard,catholic,barbecue,movie camera

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077986/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsfront

Description: Newsfront is a movie starring Bill Hunter, Gerard Kennedy, and Wendy Hughes. In post war Australia the men and women of Cinetone struggle to produce the weekly news reels for the movie going public.

Plot: The plot of the movie is about newsreel cameramen and production staff who will do anything to get footage. Set between the years 1948 and 1956, when television was introduced to Australia, the film tracks the destinies of two brothers, their adventures and misadventures placed in the context of sweeping social and political changes in their native Australia as well as natural disasters. Len Maguire is constitutionally resistant to change, while his younger brother Frank Maguire welcomes any alterations in his own life and in the world around him. Events covered in the film include Robert Menzies' return as Prime Minister of Australia, the 1951 referendum to ban the Communist Party, Post-war immigration to Australia, the combatting of the rabbit plague, the Redex Reliability Trial, the 1955 Hunter Valley floods and the 1956 introduction of television in Australia.