Cessnock Library column Unlocking the Past: When soldiers became cinema stars

By Kimberly O'Sullivan
Updated October 22 2019 - 1:45pm, first published February 14 2019 - 11:59am
LABOUR: Soldiers from the Greta Army Camp were enlisted to work on the set of Ealing Studios' 1948 production Eureka Stockade. Picture courtesy Australian War Memorial.
LABOUR: Soldiers from the Greta Army Camp were enlisted to work on the set of Ealing Studios' 1948 production Eureka Stockade. Picture courtesy Australian War Memorial.

In January 1947 the Hunter Valley was abuzz with film fever. The famed English film company, Ealing Studios, was to shoot a film in Australia starring our own home-grown international cinema star, Chips Rafferty.

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