Made by The National Film Board 1950. Directed by Doc K Sternberg. No Strangers Here is a fictionalised account of a family of "new Australians" arriving in their new home town. The family are displaced persons from an unnamed Eastern European country. Produced for the Department of Immigration during the migration boom that followed World War Two, the film's essential message is "We want them. We need them". It presents an idealised Australia, "a happy, smiling land" where people are generally friendly and accepting despite some xenophobic reactions to new immigrants, and echoes the government policies of decentralisation and assimilation at that time.
