
Cinesound announces that its newsreel film Kokoda Front Line! has received an Honourable Mention and Special Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Hollywood. Tribute is paid to Damien Parer for his photographic work and to Cinesound staff for their contributions.
Kokoda Front Line! was one of four films that shared the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1943.
Notes by Stephen Groenewegen
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.