Paul F. Ruckert

Paul Ruckert was an Australian film producer and cinematographer. He was active between 1930 and 1980 and produced a wide variety of short films and documentaries under the banner of Invincible Pictures. The films included comedies, travelogues, natural history documentaries and commercials. While not achieving huge financial success with his ventures his films were sold and distributed widely within Australia and overseas. In 1999 he was recognised for his lifelong contributions with a onehour special by Ray Martin at the end of Channel 9s Our Century series, as he supplied a lot of historical footage for that program.

He was born in Toowoomba onDecember 1913 and spent his early childhood there until the family moved to East Brisbane in 1921. After his education at the East Brisbane primary school he was apprenticed as a signwriter. He had an early fascination with film and photography, purchasing his first cameras in his teens. The area underneath his parents home at East Brisbane was soon converted into a small theatrette and signwriting workshop.

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