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ROMANTIC NEW ZEALAND - THE LAND OF ‘THE LONG WHITE CLOUD’

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Year
1934
Reference
F2390
Media type
Moving image

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Rights Information
Year
1934
Reference
F2390
Media type
Moving image

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Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Promotional
Duration
0:47:43
Production company
Filmcraft
Taonga Māori Collection
Yes
Credits
Camera: Herbert Howard Moulton Bridgman
Camera: Cyril James Morton
Camera: Charles D Barton

A feature length travelogue; a successor to GLORIOUS NEW ZEALAND (1925). Depicts all the cities and tourist attractions: Rotorua, Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, Nelson, Lake Wakatipu, Fiordland, Mount Cook, Southern Alps, Waitomo Caves and Waikato River. Historical element also, shows re-enactments of bush clearing, surveying. Also depicts native birds - tui, kiwi, kereru, fantail, kea as well as the tuatara. Guide Rangi introduces the sequence on Rotorua.

Features glimpses of Mita Taupopoki, Tina Hunt early in the piece.