The Te Kooti Trail
The Te Kooti Trail is a 1927 New Zealand film.
It premiered at the Strand Theatre, Auckland on 17 November 1927 and was billed as New Zealand ’s" greatest production".
Adapted from a newspaper serial written by Frank Bodle," The Te Kooti Trail" was based on the account of the sacking of Mill Farm at Te Poronu related in volume 2 of James Cowan ’s" The New Zealand Wars".
Rudall Hayward was fascinated by what he called" our rough- hewn story" and believed that material from the period 1840 to 1870 would make films equally fascinating as any from the American West.
With a budget of £ 900, the film was shot on location in seven weeks from early September 1927.
The entirely amateur cast was recruited locally.
Lead roles were decided by the player ’s physical resemblance to the character to be portrayed while smaller roles were given to the films shareholders- Whakatane Films.
Hayward made much of the fact that the film was taken from the official accounts and went to great lengths to ensure its accuracy.
" The Te Kooti Trail" has received undue notoriety for causing New Zealand ’s first homegrown censorship controversy.
The film ’s release was delayed by the censor W A Tanner( at the request of Māui Pōmare, then acting Minister of Internal Affairs) for a special screening to Maori MPs and elders of the Ringatu Church to ensure it did not offend Maori sensibilities.
As a result, two intertitles were changed.
Ringatū
The Ringatū church was founded in 1868 by Te Kooti Arikirangi te Turuki, commonly called Te Kooti.
The symbol for the movement is an upraised hand or" Ringatū" in Māori.
Aunt Frieda
Aunt Frieda is a 1965 West German historical comedy film directed by Werner Jacobs and starring Elisabeth Flickenschildt, Hans Kraus and Gustav Knuth.
It is based on the 1907 novel" Tante Frieda" by Ludwig Thoma.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Wolf Englert.
Te Aro Extension
The Te Aro Extension, also known as the Te Aro Branch, was a short branch line railway in Wellington, New Zealand continuing the Wairarapa Line southwards.
It operated from 1893 until 1917.
It should not be confused with the Te Aro Tramway, which was a trestle causeway built in 1883 as part of foreshore reclamation work.
Frida (disambiguation)
Frida is a 2002 film based on Hayden Herrera's book about artist Frida Kahlo.
Frida, Frieda, or Freida may also refer to:
Te Kooti's War
Te Kooti's War was among the last of the New Zealand wars, the series of 19th century conflicts between the Māori and the colonising European settlers.
It was fought in the East Coast region and across the heavily forested central North Island and Bay of Plenty between New Zealand government military forces and followers of spiritual leader Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki.
The conflict was sparked by Te Kooti's return to New Zealand after two years of internment on the Chatham Islands, from where he had escaped with almost 200 Māori prisoners of war and their families.
Te Kooti, who had been held without trial on the island for two years, told the government he and his followers wished to be left in peace and would fight only if pursued and attacked.
But two weeks after their return to New Zealand, members of Te Kooti's party found themselves being pursued by a force of militia, government troops and Māori volunteers.
Te Kooti's force routed them in an ambush, seizing arms, ammunition, food and horses.
The engagement was the first in what became a four-year guerrilla war, involving more than 30 expeditions by colonial and Māori troops against Te Kooti's dwindling number of warriors.
Although initially fighting defensively against pursuing government forces, Te Kooti went on the offensive from November 1868, starting with the Poverty Bay massacre, a well-organised lightning strike against selected European settlers and Māori opponents in the Matawhero district, in which 51 men, women and children were slaughtered and their homes set alight.
The attack prompted another vigorous pursuit by government forces, which included a siege at Ngatapa pā that came to a bloody end: although Te Kooti escaped the siege, Māori forces loyal to the government caught and executed more than 130 of his supporters, as well as prisoners he had earlier seized.
Dissatisfied with the Māori King Movement's reluctance to continue its fight against European invasion and confiscation, Te Kooti offered Māori an Old Testament vision of salvation from oppression and a return to a promised land.
Wounded three times in battle, he gained a reputation for being immune to death, uttered prophecies that had the appearance of being fulfilled, and developed an image of a mighty warrior riding a white horse, reflecting themes of Christian apocalypticism.
In early 1870 Te Kooti gained refuge with Tūhoe tribes, which consequently suffered a series of damaging raids in which crops and villages were destroyed, as other Māori "iwi" were lured by the promise of a £5000 reward for Te Kooti's capture.
Te Kooti was finally granted sanctuary by the Māori king in 1872 and moved to the King Country, where he continued to develop rituals, texts and prayers of his Ringatū faith.
He was formally pardoned by the government in February 1883 and died in 1893.
A 2013 Waitangi Tribunal report said the action of Crown forces on the East Coast from 1865 to 1869—the East Coast Wars and the start of Te Kooti's War—resulted in the deaths of proportionately more Māori than in any other district during the New Zealand wars.
It condemned the "illegal imprisonment" on the Chatham Islands of a quarter of the East Coast region's adult male population and said the loss in war of an estimated 43 percent of the male population, many through acts of "lawless brutality", was a stain on New Zealand's history and character.
The Night of Nights
The Night of Nights is a 1939 black- and- white drama film written by Donald Ogden Stewart and directed by Lewis Milestone for Paramount Pictures that starred Pat O' Brien, Olympe Bradna, and Roland Young.
The film received positive contemporary reviews from publications such as" The New York Times".
Director Milestone went on to other successful productions after the film came out, including" Ocean's 11" and" Pork Chop Hill".
The movie has no relation to the use of the phrase" Night of Nights" for the night of the Academy Awards ceremony, the album by musical group
The Seekers, or the Touhou Project song.
William Nicholas Searancke
William Nicholas Searancke( born William George Niccoll Searancke; bapt. 11 April 1817 – 29 April 1904) was a notable New Zealand surveyor, land purchase commissioner, resident magistrate and land agent.
He was born in St Albans Abbey, Hertfordshire, England in 1817.
Searancke established two families, one Māori and later one Pakeha( English).
A granddaughter of Searancke, Te Puea Herangi( also known as Princess Te Puea), became notable as a Māori leader in the early twentieth century.
In 1858, he was appointed District Commissioner in the Land Purchase Department in Wellington.
He was sent to the Wairarapa.
He had 4 children with Hariata Rangitaupua of Ngati Maniapoto.
He had become notorious for negotiating secret deals and reneging on his promises.
Searancke was exasperated with Wairarapa Maori, calling them unmitigated scoundrels.
Searancke saw that Maori were very poor and would eventually sell.
In 1858 he bought two large areas of Maori land- the Tupurupuru and Maungaraki blocks for the government.
In July 1869 Searanke was the resident magistrate in the Waikato.
He was present when the renegade Te Kooti, who had escaped with many Hau Hau prisoners from the Chatham Islands came to Te Kuiti to confront the Maori King Tawhaio.
Te Kooti had vowed on his arrival back in Gisborne to replace Tawhaio as Maori king of New Zealand.
Searanke reported to the government that Te kooti's presence in the king country appeared to paralyze the Waikato.
Te Kooti put the fear of god into them by ordering his 500 men to load their guns and fire over the heads of the approaching Waikato.
Te Kooti then ordered them to bring all their greenstone to him which he destroyed.
The standoff continued for over a week with Tawhaio refusing to even see Te Kooti who was deliberately snubbed, being forced to camp outside the village on the roadside in contravention of all normal protocol for visitors.
From Te Kuiti Searancke travelled with Te Kooti and chief Horonuku, who had spoken out in favour of Te Kooti, to visit Louis Hetet, a French trader who was considered Maniapotos' pakeha.
At the meeting Rewi abstained from drinking but Te Kooti got very drunk and talked at length about the reasons for his previous actions but not about his future plans.
Searancke warned Te Kooti that his" escort" would prevent him travelling down the Mokau valley and obliged him to return to Taupo again.
Josiah Firth
Josiah Clifton Firth( 27 October 1826 – 11 December 1897) was a New Zealand farmer, businessman and politician who had a brief brush with fame as the messenger between Te Kooti and the New Zealand Government during Te Kooti's War.
Operation Leopard
La légion saute sur Kolwezi also known as" Operation Leopard" is a French war film directed by Raoul Coutard filmed in French Guiana.
The script is based on the true story of the Battle of Kolwezi that happened in 1978.
It was diligently described in a book of the same name by former 1 REP Captain Pierre Sergent.
He published his book in 1979; the film came out in 1980.
Raoul Coutard shot the film in a documentary style.

Question: Which film came out first, Aunt Frieda or The Te Kooti Trail?