Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tuesday 19 June 1951, page 3


STARK COLOR FILM TO

BE "SHOT' IN N.T.

Sydney, Monday

AN Australian color film depicting the starkness

and adventure of present-day life in the North-ern Territory will begin production in August.

Mr. Charles Chauvel, who produced "Sons of Matthew," will produce the color film in association with overseas in-terests.

Mr. Chauvel said tonight the film would be cast as much as possible with people living in the Northern Territory.

The script, which he had writ-ten in collaboration with his wife, Elsa; was at present entitled "The Northern Territory Story."

"I decided to produce a North-ern Territory color film after my wife and I toured 8,000 miles of its vaslness last year," Mr. Chau-

vel said.

"We took color tests in asso-ciation with Film Effects Labora-tories, of Hollywood, and flew the

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negatives direct from the out-back to Hollywood for process-

ing."

Mr. Chauvel added that a re-cently incorporated company, Charles Chauvel Productions Ltd., would produce the film.