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The Legend of Lasseter (1979)

The Legend of Lasseter poster
Genre
documentary film
Country
Australia

How it feels

This film looks at the story of Lasseter's Reef, a legendary gold deposit in the Australian outback. It combines footage from an earlier 1950s TV episode to examine the tale of the man who claimed to have found it.

factualexploratoryretrospectivemysteriousnostalgicuneartheddocumentary-tone

What happens

The Legend of Lasseter is a 1979 Australian documentary about Lasseter's Reef. It was produced by Lee Robinson and includes footage from his 1957 episode of High Adventure which he made with Lowell Thomas. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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