Moving On (1974 film)

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Moving On
Directed by Richard Mason
Written by
Produced byDon Murray
StarringEwen Solon
Cinematography Dean Semler
Edited byTim Wellburn
Production
company
Release date
  • 1974 (1974)
Running time
57 mins
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Moving On is a 1974 Australian film about a sheep farmer George Collier who moves to a county town. It was made by Film Australia to help draw attention to the problems the rural poor. [1]

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The film was widely distributed through non-theatrical film libraries in Australia and screened on television in January 1974. The writer won an award with the Australian Writers Guild. [2]

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References

  1. Moving On at National Film and Sound Archive
  2. Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998 p274