The Screen Guide

Eddie Roe a Walman Yawuru elder is 83 years of age. He was born in Broome and recounts in this short documentary his life as a Pearl Diver in the 1940’s. He tells of the responsibility he had as a skipper of his own crew and the perilous times of a pearl diver. We walk through the old Chinatown of his Broome memories of an era now gone.