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This is the opening episode of the Prime TV series celebrating 50 years of New Zealand television: from an opening night puppet show in Auckland in 1960, through to Outrageous Fortune five decades later. It traverses the medium's development and its major turning points (including the rise of programme-making and news, networking, colour and the arrival of TV3, Prime, NZ on Air, Sky and Māori Television) and interviews key players. The changing nature of the NZ living room — always with the telly in pride of place as modern hearth — is a story within a story.
New Zealand screen history seems to haunt my working life. For the past three years I’ve worked part-time as NZ On Screen’s Content Director: a wonderful job, and one where you constantly get to remember, engage with, and celebrate our ...
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Wow, great to see this available for folks who missed it last year, any chance of further episodes?
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Television, 1966 (Full Length)
Documentary about the first five years of NZ television
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Brenda Leeuwenberg
Posted at 09.10AM - 12.08.2011
Hi Nathan, Hi Darren - unfortunately it's a bit of a rights nightmare to clear these episodes for the website. We are just going to have this one for now but will see what we can do about getting the rest.