Kokoda Front Line! (Cinesound Review title card, correspondent's credentials)

An intertitle from the Cinesound Review special 'Kokoda Front Line!' (1942). Before the cameraman Damien Parer appears on screen to speak to the audience, the card vouches for him: his earlier campaigns, 'classic newsreel coverages of the war', and that he is 'an experienced and reliable observer'. The film's own text sets up the eyewitness as a trusted voice before any footage is shown.

Date: 1942
Period: Second World War
Made by: Cinesound Productions for the Australian News and Information Bureau (Department of Information)
Region: Oceania
Country: Australia
Medium: Film stills
Issuer type: Mixed
Regime: Curtin Government
Leader: John Curtin
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Persuade or win support
Themes: War and the military, Media and information
Event: World War II
Techniques: Testimonial
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: Internet Archive (copy of the NFSA-held film), retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights: Public domain (Australia, 1942 film; term expired before 1996)
Cinesound Productions Ltd / Australian News and Information Bureau, 'Kokoda Front Line!' (1942); NFSA collection.

Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

Parer was through the
campaigns in Libya, Greece and
Syria and has been responsible
for some of the classic newsreel
coverages of the war.
  He is, in addition, an exper-
ienced and reliable observer.

Intertitle card, read from the committed frame; line breaks and the hyphenation of 'exper-ienced' are as on the card.