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.
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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Television, 1990 (Full Length)
David Bellamy-presented series on NZ natural history, features the kauri
Television, 2005 (Excerpts)
A satirical series in which Jeremy Wells pays homage to Cumberland
Television, 1992 (Full Length)
A documentary looking at four seasons in New Zealand’s Southern Alps
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