Michael Pate and Wendy Gibb in a scene from the Charles Chauvel movie 'Sons of Matthew', Numinbah Valley, Queensland, E. H. Turner, photographer
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Michael Pate and Wendy Gibb in a scene from the Charles Chauvel movie 'Sons of Matthew', Numinbah Valley, Queensland, E. H. Turner, photographer
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Michael Pate and Wendy Gibb in a scene from the Charles Chauvel movie 'Sons of Matthew', Numinbah Valley, Queensland
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E. H. Turner, photographer
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On set photographer was E. H. Turner of Hanford Road, ZillmereThe movie was based on the real live adventures of the O'Reilly family as told by Bernard O'Reilly in his book 'Green Mountains'. The cast and crew were accommodated in the guesthouses Chigigum and Pop-Inn and the local hall in Numinbah Valley. This scene set at Natural Bridge. The film also included a cyclonic scene that took Chauvel 12 days to take the necessary equipment to the bottom of the gorge with 45 people and 3 weeks to film regularly involving the actors being in Cave Creek's icy waters. The finished scene screened for only 3 minutes.--Information taken from F. Kenwrick, Numinbah Valley: a social history 1840s-1988, 1988
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