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Three New Zealanders: Janet Frame is a documentary about the internationally acclaimed New Zealand writer. It is a fresh, unhurried, film based around a substantial interview with Frame herself, filmed in 1975 with Michael Noonan as interviewer. The extensive rare footage of Frame - here aged 50 - presents a confident writer in her prime, and negates any stereotypes about Frame’s inarticulacy or shyness. "It [writing] becomes a way of looking at things ... everything you see ... you translate into words."

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A perspective on Three New Zealanders: Janet Frame Mary-Jane Duffy 19.09.2008

Three New Zealanders: Janet Frame is Endeavour Television's first documentary in the series of three made to mark United Nation's International Women's Year in 1975 - the other two are about ...

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