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This classic wartime newsreel profiles the coal mining towns of Westland. It compares the town of Rūnanga, where mining has brought prosperity and a strong community life, with Denniston, which is set in rocky, inhospitable land high up a West Coast mountainside. Its tone is patriotic: “Here then are the men who feed New Zealand with the raw material of industrial prosperity ... They work in the darkness of the mines, buried away from the fresh splendours of the air above them.” The Weekly Reviews were screened in cinemas 1942 - 1950.
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Television, 1987 (Full Length)
An episode in the documentary series on National Parks, featuring the West Coast
Short Film, 1949 (Full Length)
Also produced by Stanhope Andrews
Short Film, 1948 (Full Length)
Another Weekly Review film
Short Film, 1946 (Full Length)
Another Weekly Review film
Short Film, 1947 (Full Length)
Another film from the Weekly Review
Television, 2006 (Full Length Episode)
Also features Denniston
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Rose-Marie Clearwater
Posted at 04.07PM - 17.05.2010
Fabulous to have NZ history come alive.