Lousy Little Sixpence
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Genre Documentary, Drama Country Australia | Director Alec Morgan Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 29 September 1983 (1983-09-29) Initial release September 29, 1983 (Australia) Directors Alec Morgan, Gerald Bostock Cast Chicka Dixon, Margaret Tucker, Flo Caldwell, Violet Shaw, Geraldine Briggs, Bill Reid Producers Alec Morgan, Lester Bostock Cinematography Martha Ansara, Fabio Cavadini, Jaems Grant, Allesandro Cavadini Similar movies Hunt Angels (2006), Beneath Clouds (2002), Utopia (2013), Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002), Samson and Delilah (2009) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lousy Little Sixpence is a 1983 Australian documentary film about Australian history that details the early years of the Stolen Generations and the struggle of Aboriginal Australians against the Aboriginal Protection Board in the 1930s. The film's title references the amount of pocket money that Aboriginal children were to be paid for their forced labour, although few ever received it.
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Overview
Lousy Little Sixpence begins with the testimonies of survivors of the Stolen Generations who were born in the early 1900s. Later, the film documents the work of Jack Patten and the Australian Aborigines Progressive Association in the 1930s, and ends with the Day of Mourning on 26 January 1938, which marked 150 years of European settlement in Australia.
Production
Lousy Little Sixpence took three years to research and produce. In the early stages of production, the film's producers Alec Morgan and Gerald Bostock travelled through New South Wales and Victoria while receiving unemployment benefits, looking for information on the Stolen Generations to include such as newspaper articles, films and photographs.
The film screened for six weeks at Dendy cinemas in Sydney.
Cast
References
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