Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
Romantic New Zealand: travelogue: 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 ...
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.
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.
The first filmmaker in New Zealand was Alfred Henry Whitehouse, who made ten films between 1898 and mid-1900. The oldest surviving New Zealand film is Whitehouse's The Departure of the Second Contingent for the Boer War (1900). The first feature film made in New Zealand is arguably Hinemoa. It premiered on 17 August 1914 at the Lyric Theatre ...
1930s–1970s Melton Barker (February 14, 1903 – March 1977) was an itinerant filmmaker who produced and directed numerous films with his company, Melton Barker Juvenile Productions, from the 1930s though the 1970s.
On the Friendly Road is a 1936 film from New Zealand which told a story of New Zealand in the Depression. [1] [2] It was made in and around Auckland, using local actors and locally-made cameras. [3] It is one of four films made in 1935 (with The Devil's Pit, Down on the Farm, and Hei Tiki ) which lay
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.