The Dawn Fraser Story

The Dawn Fraser Story
Directed by	Joy Cavill Lee Robinson
Written by	Joy Cavill
Starring	Dawn Fraser
Production company	Waratah Film Productions
Distributed by	TCN 9
Release dates	14 December 1964^[1]
Running time	54 minutes
Country	Australia
Language	English

The Dawn Fraser Story is a 1964 documentary film about 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]

Filming began in August 1964.^[4]

While filming at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Cavill suffered a heart attack.^[5]

References

↑ "What makes Dawn tick?.". The Australian Women's Weekly. National Library of Australia. 16 December 1964. p. 19. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
↑ "Dawn sets the record straight.(Local)", The Australian (National, Australia), News Limited: 003, 2001-06-01, retrieved 9 January 2012
↑ David Stratton, The Last New Wave: The Australian Film Revival, Angus & Robertson, 1980 p111
↑ "Double helping of Project '64.". The Canberra Times. National Library of Australia. 21 December 1964. p. 23. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
↑ Pat Gillespie, "Joy Cavill", Cinema Papers, May 1990 p79

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Lee Robinson

Feature Films	The Phantom Stockman (1953) King of the Coral Sea (1954) Walk Into Paradise (1956) Dust in the Sun (1958) The Stowaway (1958) The Siege of Pinchgut (1959) (story only) The Restless and the Damned (1959) (producer only) The Intruders (1969) Nickel Queen (1971) (producer only) Attack Force Z (1981) (producer only) The Highest Honor (1983) (producer only)

Documentaries	Darwin Gateway to Australia (1946) Namatjira the Painter (1947) The Pearlers (1949) Crocodile Hunters (1949) Flight Plan (1950) Double Trouble (1951) Outback Patrol (1952) Bush Policeman (1953) Switch On Bigga (1954) The Power Makers (1957) Bring Out a Briton (1958) Rock'n'Roll (1959) Water: Our Problem (1962) Kondom Agaundo, M.L.C. (1962) Antarctic Pioneers (1962) District Commissioner (1963) The Unknown Ocean (1964) The Dawn Fraser Story (1964) In Song and Dance' (1964) The Legend of Lasseter (1979)

TV	High Adventure (1950s) Adventure Unlimited (1965) Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (1968–71) Barrier Reef (1971–72) Boney (1972–73) This is Your Life (1975-76) Shannon's Mob (1975–76) Bailey's Bird (1979)

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