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Landmarks - A Land Apart

Television, 1981

 Landmarks - A Land Apart

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Presented by Kenneth Cumberland, Landmarks looked at New Zealand history through the landscape, and at man "coming to terms" with it. In this episode NZ's "last, lonely, remote" geography is framed as a stimulus for ingenuity. A narrative of "triumph over the elements" finds its flagbearer in the DIY story of jetboat inventor Bill Hamilton. Cumberland is donnish but game in pursuit of telling landmarks: exposing seashells alongside the Napier-Taupo highway (700m above sea-level) like a down-under Darwin, or in a gas-mask on an erupting White Island.  

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Producer's Perspective George Andrews 25.08.2009

Landmarks began as a twinkle in my eye in London as I was watching Alistair Cooke’s 13-part series America when it was released on BBC-2 in 1972. What an amazing broadcaster and what a way to tell a country’s ...

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 Wayne Tourell
 George Andrews
 Ken Dorman
 Graeme Orbell