FIVE ARE TWO

Year
1967
Reference
F7503
Media type
Moving image
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Year
1967
Reference
F7503
Media type
Moving image
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Television
Duration
0:10:51
Production company
Steeletelefilm
Credits
Narrator: Selwyn Toogood
Writer: David H Fowler
Director: David H Fowler
Producer: Robert Steele
Director of Photography: Sigmund Spath
Cameras: Robert Pclough
Cameras: Johnny Millar
Sound: National Film Unit
Produced For: The International Wool Secretariat

On July 27, 1965 26 year old Shirley Anne Lawson gave birth to quintuplets. This promotional film for wool products visits the Lawson family on the event of the quins’ first birthday. We follow Shirley and her husband Sam as they go about the daily business of raising a family, including a trip to the beach resort of Pakatoa Island. By film’s end the quins have reached their second birthday.