Which documentary was created first, The Back of Beyond or The Roosevelts?
The Back of Beyond The Back of Beyond (1954) is a feature-length award-winning Australian documentary film produced and directed by John Heyer for the Shell Film Unit. In terms of breadth of distribution, awards garnered, and critical response, it is Heyer's most successful film. It is also, arguably, Australia's most successful documentary: in 2006 it was included in a book titled "100 Greatest Films of Australian Cinema", with Bill Caske writing that it is "perhaps our [Australia's] national cinema's most well known best kept secret".
Jimmy Scalia Jimmy Scalia (born 1960) is a record producer, the official archivist for the singer Bobby Darin's estate, a disc jockey, writer, and documentarian of American popular and rock music. He currently serves as an adviser and consultant to Darin's former manager Stephen Blauner and "The Bobby Darin Estate", as well as to Joel Dorn, Buddy Greco and publicist Harriet Wasser. He was the archivist for Kevin Spacey's film, "Beyond the Sea", and provided major footage for the film.