A Local stranger: Claude Beach in Julia Creek

Australia, 1987

Film
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Episode of Series “Australian mosaic”.
Claude Beach is a travelling portrait photographer touring the outback towns of Australia. A German immigrant, he has been on the move for the last twenty five or thirty years, travelling fifteen times all around Australia. This fragment of his solitary life shows him setting up shop in Julia Creek and drumming up business amongst the townsfolk there.

Credits

director

Mark Shields-Brown

producer

Barbara Mariotti

production company

Australia. Special Broadcasting Service

Duration

00:30:00:00

Production places
Australia
Production dates
1987

Appears in

Australian mosaic

Group of items

Australian mosaic

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

303955

Language

English

Subject categories

Crafts & Visual Arts → Photographers - Australia

Documentary

Documentary → Documentary films - Australia

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Country life - Australia

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Immigrants - Australia

Short films

Short films → Short films - Australia

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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