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New Zealand Mirror was an National Film Unit 'magazine-film' series geared towards the UK market. Accompanied by nationalistic, upbeat narration, this first episode covers 'New Zealand Birds', and efforts to harness 'Rotorua's Natural Heat'. It visits a game park to see Kiwi ("definitely queer birds") where, in a Disney-esque scene, two children meet a one-legged Kiwi with a bamboo peg-leg; and boats over to Kapiti Island to meet rockhopper penguin, tui, kaka and weka. In Rotorua, geothermal cooking, backyard geysers, and heated baths and pools are explored.
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Television, 2007 (Full Length)
A documentary on the people who live at Kapiti Island’s Waiorua Bay
Television, 1997 (Excerpts)
A sobering documentary on the plight of the Kiwi
Short Film, 1954 (Full Length)
Another 1950s NFU documentary with a focus on Rotorua
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