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	<title>Flinders Flicks &#187; John Mannion</title>
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		<title>Chips Rafferty and Films of the Flinders</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Mannion</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Films made in and around Quorn include:
Bitter Springs - 1949-1950
Kangaroo - 1952
Robbery Under Arms - 1957 (This movie was remade again using the area north of Wilpena Pound in 1984 and was released in a longer version as a TV mini series).
The Sundowners - 1960
Sunday Too Far Away - 1973-1974
Gallipoli - 1980
The Last Frontier - 1985
The Shiralee - 1986
The Light Horseman - 1996
The Last Ride -2009]]></description>
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		<title>Filming in the Flinders&#8230;. in 1906</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Mannion</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FLINDERS FLICKS OF LONG AGO – BUT DID IT EVER GO AHEAD?
From The Advertiser, Wednesday 5 September 1906
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
THE RAILWAYS COMMISSIONER&#8217;S REPORT
The financial year 1905-6 was the most prosperous in the history of the South Australian railways. Mr. Pendleton, in his annual report, states that the result of the year&#8217;s working was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trees to be Sprayed With Green Paint</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Mannion</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘The Mercury’ (Quorn) Thursday, September 15, 1950
TREES TO BE SPRAYED WITH GREEN PAINT
NOT QUITE RIGHT SHADE FOR COLOUR FILM
An American walked into a Waymouth Street, Adelaide engineering supplies firm this week and asked for a spray for spraying trees with green paint.
The sales assistant looked cautiously at the customer who went on to explain he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Mack footage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Mannion</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Mack&#8217;s film footage of the World War Troop Trains was presented by John Mannion during the Film Maker in Residency 2009.
John Mack is in his nineties now,  and has been a South Australian photographer and cinematographer. As a young bloke he worked in a photographic firm in Adelaide and began working with moving images [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dead-shot Moran</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Mannion</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dead-shot Moran in our midst!
an interview with Rhonda and Laurie Pumpa
by local oral historian John Mannion
 
 
 
Former ‘Outback couple’ Rhonda (nee Gill) and Laurie Pumpa (above), were both born a few years apart at Miss Ward’s nursing home at Hawker, before the hospital was built in 1924. Now married for more than 62 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Film Stars arrive in Port Augusta</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Mannion</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Quorn Mercury” Thursday December 8, 1950

 FILM STARS ARRIVE IN PORT AUGUSTA
_____
NIGHT PLANE AND CAR TRIP FROM ADELAIDE
______
MINOR BANQUET PUT ON BY COOKHOUSE STAFF
At midnight on Friday two cars and a bus turned off at a dusty track a little more than a mile from Port Augusta and drove to an almost deserted settlement, known [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Property for Color Film Arrives</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Mannion</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kangaroo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Quorn Mercury” October ?, 1950

It would appear that Quorn and Port Augusta locals either did not have suitable furniture and furnishings for the 20th Century Fox film “Kangaroo” or were not prepared to hire or sell it, if they did.
PROPERTY FOR COLOR FILM ARRIVES
______
GRANDFATHER CLOCK ABOUT 175 YEARS OLD
A pantechnicon with a full load of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mercury Story about director Lewis Milestone</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Mannion</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Quorn Mercury” 14 September, 1950
Director Who Made Lordly Clifton Webb
________
LEWIS MILESTONE EXPECTED IN PORT AUGUSTA SOON
Director Lewis Milestone, who is expected in Port Augusta in the near future to make 20th Century Fox’s new color film, “Kangaroo”, among other achievements, unearthed that princely Clifton Webb and set him on the path to stardom.

When Otto Preminger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Furniture Sought for Film Homestead</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Mannion</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kangaroo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Quorn Mercury”, Sept 14, 1950
Furniture Sought for Film Homestead
_______
SATISFACTORY PROGRESS WITH BUILDING
 
Mr Mark-Lee Kirk, art director of 20th Century Fox Company, who had been in Port Augusta for some days making preliminary arrangements in connection with the production of the color film in the nearby Flinders Ranges, said on Tuesday that work on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Kangaroo&#8217; in the Quorn Mercury</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Mannion</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kangaroo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Quorn Mercury&#8221; 31 August 1950

COMPANY GOING AHEAD
IN TRUE AMERICAN STYLE
________
Colour Film Site Chosen
_______
TWENTY TEMPORARY HOUSES
TO BE BUILT IN 4 WEEKS
Final arrangements have been made for the location of the Technicolor film ‘Kangaroo’ on Mrs E, V. Farrell’s property, 12 miles east of Port Augusta at the foot of the Flinders Ranges. Messrs Saul Wertzel and Colin [...]]]></description>
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