The Dawn Fraser Story

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The Dawn Fraser Story
Directed by Joy Cavill
Lee Robinson
Written by Joy Cavill
Starring Dawn Fraser
Production
company
Waratah Film Productions
Distributed byTCN 9
Release date
  • 14 December 1964 (1964-12-14) [1]
Running time
54 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

The Dawn Fraser Story is a 1964 documentary film about the Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser. It was made by Joy Cavill, who later made a feature film about Fraser, Dawn! (1979), and had a romantic relationship with her. [2] It is one of the few Australian documentary films of the time to be directed by a woman. [3] It was made by the short lived Waratah Film Productions. [4]

Filming began in August 1964. [5]

While filming at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Cavill suffered a heart attack. [6]

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References

  1. Nan Musgrove (16 December 1964). "What makes Dawn tick?". The Australian Women's Weekly . p. 19. Retrieved 20 December 2014 via Trove.
  2. "Dawn sets the record straight" . The Australian. 1 June 2001. p. 3. Retrieved 9 January 2012 via Trove.
  3. David Stratton (1980). The Last New Wave: The Australian Film Revival. Angus & Robertson. p. 111.
  4. "Lee Robinson" (Oral history). Interviewed by Graham Shirley. National Film and Sound Archive. 15 August 1976.[ dead link ]
    - Vagg, Stephen (6 May 2023). "Forgotten Australian TV Series: Adventure Unlimited". Filmink.
  5. "Double helping of Project '64". The Canberra Times . 21 December 1964. p. 23. Retrieved 20 December 2014 via Trove.
  6. Pat Gillespie (May 1990). "Joy Cavill". Cinema Papers. p. 79.