Jennifer "Jennie" Boddington (née Blackwood) (1922 â€" 15 November
2015) was an Australian film director and producer, who was first
curator of photography at the National Gallery of Victoria in
Melbourne (1972â€"1994), and researcher.Boddington was born in
Melbourne, Australia in 1922. She married in the early 1940s, bearing
a son, Tim in 1943. Beginning her career amongst Australia's New Wave
of filmmakers in Sydney, she worked as wardrobe assistant with costume
designer Dahl Collings on Harry Watt's Ealing feature film The
Overlanders (1946), then on eight hundred costumes for Watt's
unfinished follow-up, Eureka Stockade (1948).
2015) was an Australian film director and producer, who was first
curator of photography at the National Gallery of Victoria in
Melbourne (1972â€"1994), and researcher.Boddington was born in
Melbourne, Australia in 1922. She married in the early 1940s, bearing
a son, Tim in 1943. Beginning her career amongst Australia's New Wave
of filmmakers in Sydney, she worked as wardrobe assistant with costume
designer Dahl Collings on Harry Watt's Ealing feature film The
Overlanders (1946), then on eight hundred costumes for Watt's
unfinished follow-up, Eureka Stockade (1948).
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