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Film Details - Children's Entertainment Films , 1947
Producers:
Ralph Smart (Producer)
J. Arthur Rank (Executive Producer)
Production Companies:
Children's Entertainment Films
Rank organisation
Director of Photography:
George Heath
Editors:
James Pearson
Production Designers:
Lloyd Ravenscroft (Production Manager)
Composer:
Sydney John Kay
Cast:
Incl. Chips Rafferty (Long Bill), John Fernside (Jim), Helen Grieve (Helen Thompson), Morris Unicomb (John Thompson), Nicky Yardley (Snow Thompson), Neza Saunders (Neza), Stan Tolhurst (Blue Kennedy), Pat Penny (Henry Thompson - Father), Thelma Grigg (Mrs Thompson - Mother), Michael Yardley (Michael), John McCallum (q.v. Narrator), Edmund Allison (Police Sergeant), Clyde Combo (Old Jack).
Release Dates:
1. Released in the USA (26 November 1947, New York City); Germany (2 December 1947); Sweden (18 December 1947); Australia (19 December 1947); Austria (25 December 1947); France (3 March 1948); Finland (22 October 1948); Italy (16 April 1949).
2. Released on videocassette format in the 1980s by the Rank Organisation and CEL Home Video. Re-released on videocassette format ca. 1998 by Village Roadshow Entertainment. Released on DVD format in 2005 by Magna Pacific (Aust) and by Sony Pictures Home Video (USA).
Location:
- Filmed on location in the Blue Mountains and Burragorang Valley, NSW.
Notes:
1. Also known as Die Kinder von Mara-Mara (Germany); Äventyr i Djungeln (Sweden); Abenteuer in Mara-Mara (Austria); Natale nel Bosco (Italy); Seikkailu Viidakossa (Finland).
2.
Bush Christmas was conceived of and produced by Children's Entertainment Films (CEF), which specialised in making films for children at Saturday morning matinees throughout Britain. It was the first feature film to be produced by CEF.
3. Further reference: Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper. Australian Film 1900-1977, A Guide to Feature Film Production (1980, q.v.), pp. 269-270.
Settings:
- Bush,
- Rural,
