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This NFU film, from pioneering woman director Kathleen O’Brien, looks at NZ Correspondence School education. Lessons are issued from the school’s Wellington base to far-flung outposts where children (and adults) learn — farm-kids and sick children, prisoners and immigrants, from Nuie to Northland. Letters, radio and an annual ‘residential college’ at Massey connect students and teachers. The wide-roaming film’s making, according to a newspaper account, left O’Brien stranded at a lighthouse [Cape Brett], “for four days without a toothbrush and wearing only the clothes she stood up in”.
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Short Film, 1966 (Full Length)
Also directed by Kathleen O'Brien
Television, 1978 (Full Length)
More alternative education
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Gae Verney
Posted at 11.25AM - 17.11.2012
OMG I was the little "SHY GIRL"