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In New Zealand in the 1930s, farmers reportedly had trouble with exploding trousers as a result of attempts to control ragwort, an agricultural weed. [1] Farmers had been spraying sodium chlorate, a government recommended weedkiller, onto the ragwort, and some of the spray had ended up on their clothes. Sodium chlorate is a strong oxidizing ...
1930s New Zealand films (6 P) Pages in category "1930s in New Zealand cinema" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. N.
New Zealand's first released "talkie" film. [3] 1935: Down on the Farm: Stewart Pitt: New Zealand's first non-documentary "talkie". Fragments only remain. First film shot entirely in the South Island. [3] Hei Tiki: Alexander Markey: a.k.a. Primitive Passions, A Saga of the Maoris. [3] New Zealand's Charm: A Romantic Outpost of Empire: Cyril ...
Pages in category "1930s New Zealand films" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.
Phar Lap's Son is a 1936 New Zealand film directed by A. L. Lewis. Only part of it survives. [1] It was shot in and around Dunedin. [2] Many of the crew who worked on it had worked on Down on the Farm (1935). [3]
Down on the Farm is a 1935 New Zealand film. It was New Zealand's first sound feature. [3] [4] It is one of four films which lay claim to being the first "New Zealand talkie"; however, of the other three, The Devil's Pit and Hei Tiki had sound added in America, and On the Friendly Road was not released until 1936.
The New Zealand Film Archive was founded and incorporated on 9 March 1981. Film enthusiast, critic and historian Jonathan Dennis (1953–2002) was a driving force behind the archive, and became its first director. The archive was set up to preserve and restore significant New Zealand film and television images.
1930s in New Zealand by city (4 C) / 1930s disestablishments in New Zealand (8 C) 1930s establishments in New Zealand (11 C, 1 P) 0–9. 1930 in New Zealand (3 C, 5 P)