A fortunate life [digital videorecording]
2013
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"At eight years old, an impoverished Bert Facey was forced to start the backbreaking, dawn-to-dusk life of a farm labourer. Unschooled, his father dead, abandoned by his mother, by the age of twenty he had survived the rigours of pioneering the harsh Australian bush and the slaughter of the bloody WWI campaign at Gallipoli"--Container.
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Imprint:
[Kew, Vic.] Umbrella Entertainment, ©2013.
Collation:
2 videodiscs (DVD) (ca. 367 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 cm.
Series:
Classic Australian stories
Notes:
Based on the novel by A.B. Facey.Originally broadcast in 1985.DAVID2851.In English.
Credits:
Producer, Bill Hughes.
Performers:
Narrated by Bill Kerr.Cast: Bill Kerr, Dorothy Allison, Dale Randall.
Audience:
Rating: PG.
System details:
PAL ; All regions.
Contents:
Part I: Starting out (1897-1905) -- Part II: Bush schooling (1905-1908) -- Part III: Journey (1908-1914) -- Part IV: Providence (1914-196).
Dewey class:
DVD
Language:
English
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BRN:
12831
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