Parer's War

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I was also in 'The Duneera Boys' with my Dodge WC 52. The internment camp they built down there at Point Cook in a bare paddock was very impressive. That is until the wind lifted the 'corrugated iron' on the roof of a couple of the huts that was in fact just rolls of corrugated fibre glass layed out and held on with a few screws. It didn't look too good when long lengths of it started flapping wildly in the wind.
One day on the set I was sitting in the vehicle chatting with some extras in the back when one of them asked what the film company was paying for the truck. I told him $200 a day and he exclaimed 'geez, we're only getting $60 a day!' I explained to him that you can get a load of extras anywhere but WW2 trucks are rare. He couldn't argue with that.

Dave