New Zealand's first talkies
Subtitle: early film-making in Otago and Southland 1896-1939
By: Simon Price
Series: Southern heritage 150 -- 7
Publisher: Otago Heritage Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Dunedin [N.Z.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 92
Subjects: Motion pictures; History; Motion picture industry; Motion picture producers and directors
Description: "For several decades, the New Zealand film industry was so dependent on Hollywood and Britain for its movies that the work of New Zealand pioneer film-makers became virtually forgotten. Film historians have shown in recent years that quite a number of film makers, some of them professional, were active in this country, but research tended to concentrate on the North Island. ... Simon Price ... came to the conclusion that two of them, Henry Gore and Jack Welsh, deserved to be more widely hnoured for their achievements, and New Zealanders should be more aware that the first three feature-length talkies ever made in this country were devised and filmed in Otago and Southland. In this book, [Price] traces the development of the film industry in the two southern provinces from the first cinematographic showings in Dunedin in 1896 to the filming of Down on the Farm on the Taieri [Plains] in 1934-35 and the two further films that followed."--Back cover.
Notes: Originally written as thesis to fulfil Honours degree in history at Otago University. 1995.

Filmography: p. 79-82.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-84) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Cinematic tourism; title: The pioneering passion of Henry Gore; title: Jack Welsh and sound-on film; title: Not up to the mutton; title: A wholesome lesson; title: The curious case of Dr Lewis; title: Epilogue; title: Glossary of film terms; title: Filmography; title: New Zealand feature films 1914-1970.