Weekly slot for local documentaries.
Teine Samoa: A Girl of Samoa
Nineteen-year-old Situe, an educated village girl, is faced with the choice of remaining with her family in the small village of Matautu, Western Samoa, or seeking a new life, perhaps in Apia or New Zealand.
Director JOHN ANDERSON
Producer DAVE GIBSON
GIBSON FILMS/NZ FILM COMMISSION/TELEVISION NEW ZEALAND
Not so Long Ago
A series of six programmes with Les Cleveland looking into the social history of our recent past with a selection of film from the 1950s and 60s.
2) Remember when a new house cost £5000? When you could cross the Tasman by flying boat? When steam was king?
Producer TONY TROTTER
Publish and Be Damned
A series of three programmes asking what news we get, what news we don't get, and why.
1) Official Secret: A journalist receives confidential official documents which show that the Government and a foreign company are secretly negotiating to build a huge industrial plant in a national park. What happens to the documents? Are they published? Is the story told? What is the media response? Freelance journalist Jim Hopkins presents this imaginary situation to a group of editors, producers and jour-nalists. The participants are Russell Gault (editor, "NZ "Truth"), Mike Robson (editor, "Evening Post"). Mike Forbes (editor. "Christchurch Star"), Pat Booth (former deputy editor, "Auckland Star"), David Beatson (director of news and current affairs, Radio Pacific), Bruce Crossan (controller of news and current affairs, Television New Zealand), and Dan Stevenson (lawyer)
Producer STEPHEN LA HOOD
2) Sensationalism: An influential politician publicly clashes with a Māori activist. During the argument the politician makes an abusive, racist remark. He then goes into an apparently successful meeting called to discuss Maori grievances. Is his abusive remark crucial? Should it be published? Is it sensationalism to put it in the story? Freelance journalist Jim Hopkins presents this imaginary situation to a group of editors, producers and journalists in the studio.
Producer STEPHEN LA HOOD
3) Privacy: Supplied documents implicate a cabinet minister in an affair with a married woman. The documents show that the romance has several disturbing implications which involve the minister's function. Is it a matter of public interest? Should it be revealed? Whose privacy should be safeguarded? Freelance journalist Jim Hopkins presents this imaginery situation to a group of editors, producers. and journalists in the studio.
Producer STEPHEN LA HOOD
THE YEAR OF THE CHIP
A two-part series looking at the impact of micro-technology in New Zealand.
(1) Computers are getting smaller and smaller, but their impact is ever-increasing. The micro-computer is here. Free-lance journalist Jim Hopkins takes the lid off the silicon chip and looks at some of the dramatic uses of the micro-computer in New Zealand today.
(2) It is predicted that the 1980s will be the decade of the chip. Every aspect of work and leisure will be affected. What plans are being made? What problems will there be? What benefits can we expect? Who'll have control? Jim Bolger, Kerry Burke, Rob Campbell and others in the field discuss the issues with Jim Hopkins.
Producer STEPHEN LA HOOD
SOMETHING VENTURED
Ian Taylor in a four-part adventure series he is more than glad to have behind him as is his insurance company.
1) Canoeing in the Mt Aspiring National Park and deerhunting in the Nelson Forest Park
Producer MICHAEL STEADMAN
Director IAN TAYLOR
TELEVISION NEW ZEALAND/MOUNTAIN SAFETY COUNCIL
CAN I REALLY DRINK AND DRIVE? (1981)
You have probably done it yourself, knowing you shouldn't. If you still believe you can drink and drive safely, watch this programme.
Director SAM GARDINER
MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT/
REYNOLDS FILM PRODUCTIONS
CENSUS (1981)
Everything you always wanted to know about the census and census day, explained by the Lewis Carroll characters from "Alice in Censusland". Peter Hawes is the master of ceremonies, assisted by Bob Lowe, Stan Wineera and the Census Day Follies, with Melissa Miles as Alice and the Christchurch Wizard as the Mad Hatter.
Writer PETER HAWES
Producer ALAN LINSAY
FROM THE ROAD (1981)
New Zealand is changing so fast, I think His very important to get a record of the way we live, the social aspects. In 20 years' time people will look at my work and say, Was New Zealand really like that? I want to photograph New Zealand the way it is.
Robin Morrison, photo-journalist, at work.
Director TONY HILES
CITY ASSOCIATES
CHINAMAN'S GOLD (1981)
The story of one of the loneliest and, at the time, most despised groups of immigrants to come to New Zealand, and of an extensive archaeological operation mounted to try to find out more about them.
Writer/Director ALAN BRADY
Camera CEIDRIK HEWARD
Writing on the Wall: Don't Vote - Governments Always Win: A 1980s Ponsonby Wall Scrawl. (1981)
Tim Shadholt investigates the noble art of New Zealand graffiti, from some of the nation's earliest to examples from the walls of today. Practitioners and victims, collectors and removers, tell of their involvement with mankind's most public anonymous message.
Researcher JULIENNE STRETTON
Producer DOC WILLIAMS
Director GEOFF STEVEN
TELEVISION NEW ZEALAND
FULL CYCLE (1981)
even In the 1890s, New Zealand was full of cycling enthusiasts; Christchurch boasted the world's only "Bicycle Band". With the 20th century came the comfort of the motor car but now, money, oil and health are making us change down from four wheels to two. Ian Johnstone follows the trend.
Producer PAMELA JONES
ROUGHNECKS (1981)
An impression of work on the drilling platform on board "Sedco 445", a drilling ship operating in the deep waters 70km off the Taranaki coast.
Executive producer TONY TROTTER
Camera MAX PUDNEY
Producer STEPHEN MCELREA
TELEVISION NEW ZEALAND/SHELL BP AND TODD
AGAINST THE LAW (1982)
Three documentary-dramas on fascinating criminal cases from New Zealand's past.
Hosted by Peter Hawes.
1) The Confidence of Percy Redwood: Percy is out to defraud two unsuspecting ladies smitten by his charm and "generosity".
Starring LOUISE TETHERBRIDGE
Writer ALAN LINDSAY
Producer/director ALAN LINDSAY
2) The Case of the Severed Hand: A hand is found on a public beach. Is this all that remains of a man feared taken by a shark? All is not as it seems.
Starring RUSSELL BURTON
Written by PETER HAWES
Producer/director ALAN LINDSAY
3) Lionel Terry: He was pledged to drive the Chinese out of the country and considered murder a justifiable action to draw attention to his cause.
Starring PETER VERSTAPPEN
Written by JOANNA KING
Producer/director ALAN LINDSAY
Contact (3/6/1982)
They Shoot Commercials, Don't They? Love them or hate them, home-made television commercials were becoming one of the dominant influences on New Zealand's popular culture. For our growing free-lance film industry big-budget commercials were also an important part of their livelihood. This documentary went on location with the crew making one of the most ambitious commercials attempted up to 1982.
Producer MAURICE URLICH
S.A.M. PRODUCTIONS
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