The first color movie made in Australia.
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.
Most scenes were filmed in the Northern Territory which has distinctive red deserts. The last roll of film was destroyed in a plane crash on its way to England for processing. The missing scenes were re-shot in the Blue Mountains, just outside Sydney, and the print artificially "warmed" to make it look more red.
At the premiere of the film, Aboriginal people were kept separate from white people, with only the two Aboriginal stars allowed to sit with the white folk.
This was the first Australian feature film filmed in color.