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Storm Boy

Director: Safran, Henri
Year: 1976
Type: Film
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Synopsis

A 10-year-old boy (Greg Rowe), living with his father in the wild Coorong wetlands of South Australia, rescues a baby pelican orphaned by hunters. With the help of an Aboriginal man, Fingerbone Bill (David Gulpilil), the boy and the bird become inseparable, until the outside world encroaches.

-- synopsis from Australian Screen Online

http://aso.gov.au/titles/features/storm-boy/notes/



Adaptation of: Storm Boy (Thiele, Colin, 1963)
Colin Thiele's 1963 children's novel Storm Boy was adapted for the screen by Henri Safran in 1976. The novelist was reportedly displeased that a scene featuring hunters running amok in dune buggies was added to augment the dramatic tension but in many respects the film is very faithful to the source text. 

Narrative Locations

Coorong, Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia  

Temporal setting: 1970s

Location notes:

Storm Boy is set in the Coorong wetland ecosystem, a series of saltwater lagoons separated from the sea by a narrow stretch of sand dunes called the Younghusband Peninsula. 

The Coorong National Park is 150km southeast of Adelaide. It stretches from the mouth of the Murray River for over 100km down the South Australian coast almost all the way to Kingston. The wetland is home to many waterbirds, including pelicans, swans, terns, and egrets. It is also culturally significant for the Ngarrindjeri Aboriginal people and archaeological evidence shows shell middens dating back thousands of years. Diversion of the Murray River water for irrigation has endangered the ecosystem of the Coorong because it doesn't get flushed out with fresh water. 

For more information see ABC Science: Our Changing World -- The Coorong  

Shooting Locations

Coorong, Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia

Storm Boy was filmed on location along the Younghusband Peninsula at the Coorong, which is where Storm Boy lives with his father and Mr Percival.

Goolwa Beach, Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia

Goolwa Beach is one of the shooting locations for Storm Boy.

Meningie, Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia

Meningie is one of the shooting locations for Storm Boy, most probably where the town scenes were filmed.

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