Daybill for the American release of Jedda Facsimile

Australia, 1955

Courtesy the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.

Object

Jedda represented a lot of historic firsts for the Australian moving image, not just in the story it was telling but how that story was told. The first fully funded Australian narrative feature to be shot in colour in the country, it used a colour process known as the Belgian Gevacolor so it was possible to shoot on location among the Australian landscape.

An excerpt of Jedda from Umbrella Entertainment.

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Collection

In ACMI's collection

On display until

16 February 2031

ACMI: Gallery 1

Credits

director

Charles Chauvel

Production places
Australia
Production dates
1955

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

FC180165

Curatorial section

The Story of the Moving Image → Moving Pictures → MI-05. Sound and Colour → MI-05-C03

Measurements

591 x 249mm

Object Types

2D Object

Exhibition Prop

Facsimile

Poster/Pictorial

Materials

Digital print

Collected

22154 times

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