After working on the project seven days a week for six months, Broome's heritage — in miniature — will finally be revealed.
The model portrays Broome's Indigenous heritage, pearling industry, and multiculturalism depicting the area now known as Chinatown."If we don't understand the history — where and how Broome came to be — we will not understand where we are today."
To make hulls for his miniature pearl luggers, Mr Fraser carved beechwood from the planks of an old lugger.Other figures and items are mostly made from light gauge wire and gap filler, while corrugated iron roofs are made from corrugated cardboard and spray-painted.Mr Fraser and his assistants worked seven days a week for nearly six months and he is "both terrified and hopeful" about finally seeing it on the screen.
"Terrified because I've put my heart and soul on the sleeve here, but I'm excited for the fact that, in making this, I may answer some questions, but I hope to invoke a thousand more," he says. Broome-based filmmaker Paul Bell was involved in the production and says it was "a great project to work on"."We went out with [Yawuru man] Bart Pigram to pick out some of the actual wood that was used in the making of [Streeter's] Jetty … to make the pylons exactly as they would have been with the correct timber, but miniaturised," he says."I suppose that's the idea of the series.
After filming the program, the producers donated the model back to Mr Fraser and it is now on display in the University of Notre Dame library in Broome.
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