My life with Charles Chauvel
By: Elsa Chauvel
Publisher: Arcadia
Published: 2019
Place of publication: North Melbourne, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9781925801767
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Motion picture producers and directors; Biography; Motion picture producers' and directors' spouses; Australian Motion pictures; Production and direction; Motion picture industry; Film; Ethnographic
Description: Includes detail on the making of the film Uncivilized on Palm Island and Jedda with Robert Tudawali and Ngarla Kunoth.

To take you down to the sea in ships, to go tramping over a thousand hills, to huddle against a man-made cyclone in the jungle scrub of the Lamington Plateau, to go film-making with Charles and Elsa Chauvel - that's the object of this book. In these pages you will share Elsa's dramatic years beside her film-producer husband, helping to pioneer a struggling motion picture industry. You will sail with them to lonely Pitcairn Island, where they face hazardous seas to bring back, for the first time, film footage of the hiding place of the Bounty mutineers. You will travel with the dedicated, adventure-loving pair to film in the rugged interior of the Northern Territory. You will listen to the thunder of hooves as they film the unforgettable, world-acclaimed charge of Forty Thousand Horsemen, and you will read of the stars discovered and created by Charles Chauvel: Errol Flynn, Mary Maguire, Chips Rafferty, Peter Finch, Michael Pate, Betty Bryant, Tudawali and Ngarla Kunoth of Jedda fame.
Notes: Originally published 1973 by Shakespeare Head Press, Sydney.

Includes filmography.
Table of contents: title: 1. Elsa in South Africa; title: 2. Charles in Australia; title: 3. A reluctant star; title: 4. To Hollywood with hope; title: 5. "In the Wake of the Bounty"; title: 6. Tahiti; title: 7. We find Errol Flynn; title: 8. "Heritage"; title: 9. Brisbane goes on a movie picnic; title: 10. A studio tragedy; title: 11. "Uncivilised"; title: 12. "Forty Thousand Horsemen"; title: 13. War documentaries; title: 14. "The Rats of Tobruk"; title: 15. "Sons of Matthew"; title: 16. A man-made cyclone; title: 17. Prospecting for movie gold; title: 18. The Jedda safari; title: 19. Dark stars for the bright lights of Sydney; title: 20. Re-union with Errol Flynn; title: 21. Our last safari; title: Appendix: Filmography; title: Photographic sources.