The Dawn Fraser Story

The Dawn Fraser Story
Directed by	Joy Cavill Lee Robinson
Written by	Joy Cavill
Starring	Dawn Fraser
Production company	Waratah Film Productions
Distributed by	TCN 9
Release date	14 December 1964 (1964-12-14)[1]
Running time	54 minutes
Country	Australia
Language	English

The Dawn Fraser Story is a 1964 documentary film about the Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser. It was made by Joy Cavill, who later made a feature film about Fraser, Dawn! (1979), and had a romantic relationship with her.^[2] It is one of the few Australian documentary films of the time to be directed by a woman.^[3] It was made by the short lived Waratah Film Productions.^[4]

Filming began in August 1964.^[5]

While filming at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Cavill suffered a heart attack.^[6]

References

1. Nan Musgrove (16 December 1964). "What makes Dawn tick?". The Australian Women's Weekly. p. 19. Retrieved 20 December 2014 – via Trove.
2. "Dawn sets the record straight". The Australian. 1 June 2001. p. 3. Retrieved 9 January 2012 – via Trove.
3. David Stratton (1980). The Last New Wave: The Australian Film Revival. Angus & Robertson. p. 111.
4. "Lee Robinson" (Oral history). Interviewed by Graham Shirley. National Film and Sound Archive. 15 August 1976.^{[dead link‍]}
   - Vagg, Stephen (6 May 2023). "Forgotten Australian TV Series: Adventure Unlimited". Filmink.
5. "Double helping of Project '64". The Canberra Times. 21 December 1964. p. 23. Retrieved 20 December 2014 – via Trove.
6. Pat Gillespie (May 1990). "Joy Cavill". Cinema Papers. p. 79.

External links

• The Dawn Fraser Story at IMDb
• The Dawn Fraser Story^{[dead link‍]} at National Film and Sound Archive