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Synopsis

Gary McCormick goes west to Raglan, and asks: “What goes on here? Why do people live here? What do they do?”. To find out he goes surfing on the famous left-hand point break, hangs with hippies, catches Midge Marsden and the Mudsharks at the Harbour View Hotel, and discusses land rights with kaumatua Sam Kereopa. The recipe — McCormick as genial small town anthropologist getting to know the locals — earned the documentary a 1989 LIFTA award, and later inspired the long-running Heartland series. Raglan was an early producer credit for Finola Dwyer (An Education).

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 Sid Limbert

Sid Limbert

I am thrilled to bits to find this Raglan by the sea doco on your site, I was wondering how to download it so I can watch it in it's entirity without it stopping all the time. What am I doing wrong

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Quotes

I’ve always been fascinated by small New Zealand towns, and in the course of my work over the years I’ve been to quite a few of them. 
What has protected the town from becoming a sort of ticky-tack, Bay of Islands pink shirt and white shoes holidaymakers’ paradise is apparently the black sand. 

Awards

1989 Listener Film and Television Awards
Documentary of the Year