South West Pacific (film)

South West Pacific
Directed byKen G. Hall
Written byTom Gurr
Produced byKen G. Hall
StarringChips Rafferty
Bert Bailey
Peter Finch
Ron Randell
CinematographyBert Nicholas
Edited byWilliam Shepherd
Production
company
Distributed byBEF
Release dates
  • 12 May 1943 (1943-05-12) (Hobart)
  • 18 June 1943 (1943-06-18) (Sydney)[1][2]
Running time
33 mins
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

South West Pacific is a 1943 propaganda short Australian film directed by Ken G. Hall which focuses on Australia as the main Allied base in the South West Pacific area. Actors depict a cross section of Australians involved in the war effort.[3][4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference cleric was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Advertising". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 18 June 1943. p. 8. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  3. ^ "South West Pacific". Australian War Memorial. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
  4. ^ Pike, Andrew Franklin. "The History of an Australian Film Production Company: Cinesound, 1932-70" (PDF). Australian National University. pp. 243–244.