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Oxley Hughan

Director, Producer

Director and producer Oxley Hughan began directing for the Government's National Film Unit during World War II. In the 60s he moved into producing, working on another 120 plus films before his retirement in 1967. Hughan passed away in January 1992.

After 26 years with the National Film Unit I think my greatest pleasure has been the making of farming films, and working with the farming people. Oxley Hughan, on his retirement in 1967

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War Years

1983, Original filmmaker - Film

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Good Times Two

1968, Producer - Short Film

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Spindrift

1968, Producer - Short Film

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The Coronation of King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga

1968, Producer - Short Film

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Asthma and Your Child

1967, Producer - Short Film

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This Auckland

1967, Producer - Short Film

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The Story of Seven-Hundred Polish Children

1967, Producer - Television

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Pictorial Parade No. 183 - A Hundred Years From Gold

1966, Producer - Short Film

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Toehold on a Harbour

1966, Producer - Short Film

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Through Scrummage, Three Quarters and All

1966, Producer - Short Film

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Too Late to be Sorry

1966, Producer - Short Film

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Tribute to Queen Sālote

1966, Producer - Short Film

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It Helps to Be Mad

1966, Producer - Short Film

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The Young Giant Kāingaroa

1966, Producer - Short Film

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Pictorial Parade No. 181 - Christchurch: Weathermen Look Up

1966, Producer - Short Film

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The Regular Soldier

1966, Producer - Short Film

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Over the Sea and Near Away

1966, Producer - Short Film

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Pictorial Parade No. 184 - New Zealand's Day with 'LBJ'

1966, Producer - Short Film

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Tilt to the Sun

1966, Producer - Short Film

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Pictorial Parade No. 161 - Exercise Powderhorn

1965, Production - Short Film

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Wayleggo

1965, Producer - Short Film

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Four for the Clouds

1964, Producer - Short Film

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These New Zealanders - Motueka

1964, Producer - Television

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These New Zealanders - Taupō

1964, Producer - Television

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These New Zealanders - Huntly

1964, Producer - Television

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One Hundred and Forty Days Under the World

1964, Producer - Short Film

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One in a Thousand

1964, Producer - Television

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Peter Snell, Athlete

1964, Producer - Television

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These New Zealanders

1964, Producer - Television

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These New Zealanders - Benmore

1964, Producer - Television

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These New Zealanders - Gisborne

1964, Producer - Television

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These New Zealanders - Gore

1964, Producer - Television

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Legend of Birds

1962, Supervisor, Writer - Short Film

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The Māori Today

1960, Director - Short Film

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Pictorial Parade No. 91

1959, (Overall) Supervisor, Writer - Milson Deviation - Short Film

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Pictorial Parade No. 86 - Inside the Bag

1959, Producer - Short Film

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The Lion and the Kiwi

1959, Producer - Film

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The Great Achievement

1958, Editor, Writer - Short Film

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Antarctic Adventure

1957, Editor - Short Film

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People of the Waikato

1956, Director, Writer - Short Film

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Tasman Glacier - Polar Exercise

1956, Director - Short Film

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The Snowline is Their Boundary

1955, Director, Writer - Short Film

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Taranaki

1954, Writer, Director - Short Film

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Wakatipu - The Long Lake

1954, Writer, Director - Short Film

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Farming in New Zealand

1952, Director, Writer - Short Film

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Pictorial Parade

1952 - 1971, Producer - Short Film

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Canterbury is a Hundred

1950, Director, Editor, Writer - Short Film

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Exhibition Loop

1947, Subject - Short Film

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Weekly Review No. 249 - New Zealand and World War II

1946, Director, Writer - Short Film

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Weekly Review No. 195 - New Zealand Celebrates VE Day

1945, Editor - Short Film

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Weekly Review No. 208 - VJ Day Celebrations

1945, Editor - Short Film

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Weekly Review

1942 - 1950, Director - Short Film