Double Trouble (1951)
- Directed by
- Lee Robinson
- Genre
- documentary
- Country
- Australia
- Runtime
- 10 min
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Two Australian men who dislike immigrants are magically transported to another country. The film uses actors to show their narrow-minded attitudes changing.
educationaldatedearnestmildly ironichistoricalinstructionalcontrivedtopical
What happens
Double Trouble is a docu-drama directed by Lee Robinson about two Australian men intolerant of foreign migrants who find themselves transported to a foreign country. Unlike most movies from the Australian National Film Board it used professional actors, and gave Lee Robinson invaluable experience directing them prior to his first feature, The Phantom Stockman (1953). The film has since come to be regarded as historically significant because of its depiction of attitudes towards Australian immigration at the time. Robinson and editor Inman Hunter later wrote a story for a drama film together which became The Siege of Pinchgut (1959). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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