TOEHOLD ON A HARBOUR

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Year

1966

NFU Picture/Sheet No.

260

Length

Colour, 10 minutes, 35mm, 972 ft.

NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL FILM UNIT TOEHOLD ON A HARBOUR

Written and Directed MIKE G. RYAN

Photography BRIAN CROSS, SAM GRAU

Sound RON SKELLEY

Production GEOFFREY SCOTT, OXLEY HUGHAN

Film Censors Certificate No. G29250 (4 February 1966)

Cat. Refs. 1967-68 p.32; 1973 p.48.

Eastmancolor

Viewing copies

VHS Video- R.V. 600

16mm film- W3606/c/25

VHS Video (Preview Tape)- BITC 3

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A swinging, sometimes humorous treatment of the theme that the character of Wellington has been shaped by its peculiar location. Flanked on one side by steep hills and on the other by a deep harbour, the city has grown on a site more perpendicular than horizontal. People run 'obstacle races' down zigzags to reach the city centre. Great ships are berthed at the quays alongside. A bright fringe of beaches curves for 32 miles around. Like the country, New Zealand's capital is a place of contrasts.

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