The Coolbaroo Club
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- Runtime
- 53 mins
Documentary about "The Coolbaroo Club", which was the only Aboriginal-run dance club in a city which practiced unofficial apartheid. During its lifetime, the Club attracted Black musicians and celebrities from all over Australia and occasionally from overseas. Although best-remembered for the hugely popular Coolbaroo dances attended by hundreds of Aborigines and their white supporters, the "Coolbaroo League", founded by Club members, ran a newspaper and became an effective political organization, speaking out on issues of the day affecting Aboriginal people.
Documentary about "The Coolbaroo Club", which was the only Aboriginal-run dance club in a city which practiced unofficial apartheid. During its lifetime, the Club attracted Black musicians and celebrities from all over Australia and occasionally from overseas. Although best-remembered for the hugely popular Coolbaroo dances attended by hundreds of Aborigines and their white supporters, the "Coolbaroo League", founded by Club members, ran a newspaper and became an effective political organization, speaking out on issues of the day affecting Aboriginal people.
Cast
- Christopher Robin Bodney
- Eileen Clarke
- Frank Bropho
- Gladys Bropho
- Helena Murphy
- Joan Penny
- Nora PIckett
- Roma Loo
- Shirley Corunna
- Thomisha Passmore
Director
- Roger Scholes
Producers
- Penny Robins
- Stephen Kinnane
- Lauren Marsh
