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Australian Women's Weekly, 2 December 1939, p.50S
form y separately published work icon Seven Little Australians single work   film/TV  
Adaptation of Seven Little Australians Ethel Turner , 1894 single work children's fiction
Issue Details: First known date: 1939... 1939 Seven Little Australians
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A feature film based on Ethel Turner's novel of the same name, Seven Little Australians celebrates the energetic, free-wheeling spirit of Australian youth. The storyline follows the escapades of the seven Woolcot children as they struggle to win the affections of their strict father while simultaneously attempting to exert their own independent identities.

In this 1939 cinematic adaptation, Captain Woolcot is portrayed as a harsher, less loving character rather than a father whose love for his family is being suppressed by his belief in discipline.

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      O. B. Pictures ,
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      Advertisement, Sydney Morning Herald 14 December 1939, p.29
      Extent: 62 min.p.
      Description: Black and white; sound
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  • Parramatta River, Parramatta area, Sydney, New South Wales,
  • 1890s
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