Director(s)Charles Chauvel
Producer(s)Charles Chauvel
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Jedda (1955) was a Drama Film directed by Charles Chauvel and produced by Charles Chauvel.

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There are several words or terms associated with Aboriginals used in the film - lubra (meaning woman or girl), coroboree (ceremony), didgeridoo (a musical instrument), walkabout (short period of nomadic bushlife undertaken by Aboriginals) and piccaninny (baby or child).
This picture was one of fifty Australian films selected for preservation as part of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's Kodak / Atlab Cinema Collection Restoration Project.
Jedda is said to 'grow like Topsy'. This term comes from the book, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' by Harriet Beecher-Stowe, in which there is a character called Topsy, a little girl.
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