The Power Makers, the Glossary
The Power Makers is a 1957 Australian short directed by Lee Robinson, about brown coal coal mining in Australia and the Yallourn Power Station.[1]
Table of Contents
6 relations: Coal in Australia, Film Australia, James Condon, Lee Robinson (director), Lignite, Yallourn Power Station.
- 1950s Australian films
- 1957 documentary films
- Documentary films about fossil fuels
- Films directed by Lee Robinson
- Mining in Victoria (state)
Coal in Australia
Coal is mined in every state of Australia.
See The Power Makers and Coal in Australia
Film Australia
Film Australia was a company established by the Government of Australia to produce films about Australia in 1973.
See The Power Makers and Film Australia
James Condon
James Thomas Condon (27 September 1923 – 14 February 2014) was an Australian actor of radio and stage, a scriptwriter and voice over, however best known for his numerous television roles in serials and television movies in Australia, particularly for appearing as the title character in the early soap opera The Story of Peter Gray, as well as smaller roles in Number 96 and Neighbours.
See The Power Makers and James Condon
Lee Robinson (director)
Lee Robinson (22 February 1923 – 22 September 2003) was an Australian producer, director and screenwriter who was Australia's most prolific filmmaker of the 1950s and part of the creative team that produced the late 1960s international hit television series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo.
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Lignite
Lignite (derived from Latin lignum meaning 'wood'), often referred to as brown coal, is a soft, brown, combustible sedimentary rock formed from naturally compressed peat.
See The Power Makers and Lignite
Yallourn Power Station
The Yallourn Power Station, now owned by EnergyAustralia a wholly owned subsidiary of the Hong-Kong-based CLP Group, is located in the Latrobe Valley of Victoria, Australia, beside the Latrobe River, with the company town of Yallourn located to the south west.
See The Power Makers and Yallourn Power Station
See also
1950s Australian films
- Bitter Springs (film)
- Bring Out a Briton
- Bush Policeman
- Conquest of the Rivers
- Double Trouble (1951 film)
- Dust in the Sun
- Edge of The Deep
- Far West Story
- Fighting Blood (1951 film)
- Flight Plan (film)
- Hard to Windward
- Haven on the Hill
- I Found Joe Barton
- Inland with Sturt
- Jedda
- King of the Coral Sea
- List of Australian films of the 1950s
- Music in Our Schools
- New Guinea Patrol
- Night Freighter
- No Strangers Here
- Outback Patrol
- Overland Adventure
- Rock 'n' Roll (1959 film)
- Smiley (1956 film)
- South Pacific Playground
- Stolen Identity
- Sunday in Melbourne
- Switch On Bigga
- The Back of Beyond
- The Glenrowan Affair
- The Kangaroo Kid (film)
- The Kurnell Story
- The Phantom Stockman
- The Power Makers
- The Queen in Australia
- The Restless and the Damned
- The Siege of Pinchgut
- The Stowaway (1958 film)
- This Is the ABC
- Three in a Million
- Walk Into Paradise
- Waltzing Matilda (1958 film)
1957 documentary films
- Albert Schweitzer (film)
- An der Via Egnatia – Historisches und Heutiges über Stadt und Messe
- Birth of a Giant
- Canada's Air Defence
- City of Gold (1957 film)
- Conquest of the Rivers
- Every Day Except Christmas
- Hard to Windward
- Lapland Calendar
- Nice Time
- Night Freighter
- Out (1957 film)
- Search for Paradise
- The Day Called 'X'
- The England of Elizabeth
- The Kurnell Story
- The Power Makers
- The Seine Meets Paris
- Toccata for Toy Trains
Documentary films about fossil fuels
- Documentary films about hydraulic fracturing
- Joe Lycett vs the Oil Giant
- Power to Win (film)
- The Cost of Silence
- The Pipe
- The Power Makers
- Wiebo's War
Films directed by Lee Robinson
- Antarctic Pioneers
- Bush Policeman
- Crocodile Hunters
- Darwin Gateway to Australia
- District Commissioner (film)
- Double Trouble (1951 film)
- Dust in the Sun
- In Song and Dance
- King of the Coral Sea
- Kondom Agaundo, M.L.C.
- Namatjira the Painter
- Rock 'n' Roll (1959 film)
- The Intruders (1969 film)
- The Pearlers
- The Phantom Stockman
- The Power Makers
- The Stowaway (1958 film)
- Walk Into Paradise
Mining in Victoria (state)
- Blanche Barkly
- Jim Crow goldfield
- New Australasian Gold Mine disaster
- The Power Makers
- Welcome Stranger