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This Auckland

Short Film (Full Length) – 1967

Young New Zealanders like to travel overseas for new experiences. This is the ambition of every 18 year old office girl and the destiny of almost every 18 month old lamb.
– Narrator, Hugh Macdonald
The film's slightly quirky sixties stylistic buzz now feels like a last ditch attempt to sell Auckland as an affluent semi-resort without a social problem in sight.
– Murray Edmonds in his 2021 book, Time to Make a Song and Dance, Page 203
Most Aucklanders are immensely proud of their city — its modern amenities, its climate, its continual struggle to be in vogue with overseas trends and its frenetic growth.
– Narrator, Hugh Macdonald