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Thumbnail from title in The Peter Jackson Collection | NZ On Screen
Thumbnail from title in The Peter Jackson Collection | NZ On Screen
Thumbnail from title in The Peter Jackson Collection | NZ On Screen
Thumbnail from title in The Peter Jackson Collection | NZ On Screen
Thumbnail from title in The Peter Jackson Collection | NZ On Screen
Thumbnail from title in The Peter Jackson Collection | NZ On Screen
Thumbnail from title in The Peter Jackson Collection | NZ On Screen
Thumbnail from title in The Peter Jackson Collection | NZ On Screen
Thumbnail from title in The Peter Jackson Collection | NZ On Screen
Thumbnail from title in The Peter Jackson Collection | NZ On Screen
Thumbnail from title in The Peter Jackson Collection | NZ On Screen

The Peter Jackson Collection

The Peter Jackson Collection

Filming Bad Taste in the hills above Pukerua Bay. From left to right, actor turned sound recordist Dean Lawrie, director and camera operator Peter Jackson, and Pete O'Herne, who played Barry.

Kindly provided by Onfilm.

The team behind Peter Jackson's first feature Bad Taste took on many roles. On the roof, actor Mike Minnett; inside the car, actor Terry Potter. Holding clapperboard, late actor Pete O'Herne. Jackson is behind the camera.

Kindly provided by Onfilm

Peter Jackson watches on as wardrobe assistant Zana Feuchs fits actor Danny Mulheron into a costume on the set of Meet the Feebles.

Kindly provided by The Dominion Post.

Peter Jackson with the Silver Lion he won at the 1994 Venice Film Festival for Heavenly Creatures.

Kindly provided by The Dominion Post

Peter Jackson with his award for best gore film at the 17th Paris International Festival of Fantasy and Sci-Fi Films.

Photographer: William West. Kindly provided by The Dominion Post

Peter Jackson as Derek from his film Bad Taste.

Photo appears courtesy of The Dominion Post

Peter Jackson and Costa Botes in a scene from Forgotten Silver

Photo appears courtesy of the New Zealand Film Commission

Peter Jackson with Puppets from Meet the Feebles

Photo: Jon Hargest, Evening Post

Peter Jackson with props from Bad Taste

Photo: Ian Mackle, Evening Post

Peter Jackson in a scene from Forgotten Silver .

Photo appears courtesy of the New Zealand Film Commission.

A scene from Forgotten Silver.

Photo appears courtesy of the New Zealand Film Commission.

From left to right: Costa Botes, Peter Jackson and Johnny Morris go hunting for treasure in Forgotten Silver

Photographer: Chris Coad.

Costa Botes and Peter Jackson in a scene from Forgotten Silver.

Photo appears courtesy of the New Zealand Film Commission.

Peter Jackson with baby Selwyn from Braindead.

Kindly provided by The Dominion Post.

Peter Jackson talks to Costa Botes in a scene from Forgotten Silver.

Photo appears courtesy of the New Zealand Film Commission.