A Local stranger: Claude Beach in Julia Creek

Australia, 1987

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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.

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director

Mark Shields-Brown

producer

Barbara Mariotti

production company

Australia. Special Broadcasting Service

Duration

00:30:00:00

Production places
Australia
Production dates
1987

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Australian mosaic

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