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Pictures
Screening: Monday 2 October, 6:30pm
New Zealand
1981
Director: Michael Black
Producer: John O'Shea
Screenplay: Robert Lord, John O'Shea
From an idea by: Michael Black
Director of photography: Rory O'Shea
Camera operator: Michael Hardcastle
Production manager: Dorthe Scheffmann
Editor: John Kiley
Art director: Russell Collins
Costumes: Gwen Kaiser
Music: Jan Preston
Sound editors: Geoff Shepherd, David Newton
Studio manager: Eric Anderson
Special effects: Kevin Chisnall
Kevin J Wilson (Alfred Burton)
Peter Vere-Jones (Walter Burton)
Helen Moulder (Lydia Burton)
Elizabeth Coulter (Helen Burton)
Terence Bayler (John Rochfort)
Matiu Mareikuira (Ngatai)
Ken Blackburn (James Gilchrist)
35mm
87 minutes
G certificate
In New Zealand, at the end of the 19th Century, Walter Burton is embittered by a warning from authorities that he is not to exhibit photographs he has taken of Maoris taken prisoner by Colonial troops. When his more pragmatic brother, Alfred, joins Walter in New Zealand, Alfred is prepared to comply with official suggestions that he takes pictures of Maoris likely to be more acceptable in London. To become better acquainted with Maoris, Alfred engages the dispossessed Ngatai to accompany him on an expedition up the Wanganui River with John Rochfort, a Government surveyor seeking a route for a railway through the North Island. Honours are heaped on Alfred – for his bravery and his pictures. It only increases Walter’s distress. Determined to assert himself, Walter exhibits his controversial pictures – with disastrous results for his brother and himself.
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