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The history of cinema in New Zealand is almost as long as the medium itself. The first public screening of a motion picture took place in 1896. A documentary made in 1900 is the oldest surviving New Zealand film, while the first feature film made in New Zealand premiered in 1914.
Oct 21, 2021 · A Brief History of New Zealand Cinema. New Zealand’s early film industry was small and mostly focused on documentaries. The government made films featuring the country’s stunning landscapes to promote tourism. The National Film Unit was established in 1941 to foster national identity and educate the public.
The story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years rebuilding a 1920 Indian motorcycle, which helped him set the land speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.
- Going to The Pictures
- What New Zealanders Watched
- Rise of A Local Feature Industry
- Themes of New Zealand Cinema
- A Collaborative Medium
New Zealanders are enthusiastic filmgoers. By one estimate, in 2011 New Zealand rated second-equal with Australia (and behind the United States) as having the highest rate of cinema attendance. Filmgoing reached a peak of popularity during the Second World War, when the average New Zealander attended almost one movie a fortnight. This rate declined...
Locally made productions, initially small-scale documentary recordings, formed part of New Zealand cinema-going experience from its earliest years. New Zealand feature films were made, but American- and British-made feature films, especially comedy, adventure, thriller and fantasy movies, have traditionally dominated local screens.
From the 1970s, feature-film production in New Zealand grew from a struggling, if passionately driven, endeavour to a substantial cultural industry that included multi-million-dollar films funded from offshore, modestly budgeted films made with local state funding assistance, and minimal-budget, do-it-yourself films made possible by the arrival of ...
New Zealand’s geographical isolation and unique cultural history have given rise to a film culture often described as ‘quirky’ and ‘idiosyncratic’, with film-makers returning repeatedly to the search for identity – personal, local, national or cultural. Film historian Roger Horrocks has categorised New Zealand feature films into four key themes: 1....
In writing about feature films, the convention is to indicate a film’s creative source by naming the director. However, film is a collaborative art and no film (or film industry) happens without the creative input of many others, including writers, composers, cinematographers, editors, production designers, sound engineers and producers, whose name...
Jan 11, 2024 · Currently the most comprehensive and detailed history of New Zealand film, containing a painstaking description, decade by decade, both of fiction films and nonfiction films, illustrated extensively with visual and printed material from the New Zealand Film Archive.
The earliest feature films made in New Zealand have been lost due to the fragile nature of film. The first were made in the 1910s by overseas crews. Early films often used Māori culture as a drawcard. One New Zealander to work on them was the innovative camera operator Ted Coubray.
6 days ago · New Zealand Film: An Illustrated History is not the first book to examine the history of New Zealand film, nor is it likely to be the last. But An Illustrated History is touted as the most...
