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Your Most Humble and Obedient Servant, James Cook

Short Film (Full Length) – 1970

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One of the last films made by Jeremy Sykes before his death in the Antarctic in a helicopter accident, this NFU short commemorates the 1969 Cook bicentennial. It traces Cook’s first voyage to New Zealand and his charting of the coastline. Contemporary illustrations and dramatic camerawork are used to follow his six-month journey around Aotearoa. It also highlights Cook's navigational skills as he sailed the Endeavour, home to 94 men, two greyhounds and a goat, through uncharted waters, helping earn him his reputation as "explorer extraordinary and servant of the King".

Wherever he went he was scrupulously fair and on this coast he understood that he was the stranger and the Māoris were the rightful owners of the land. At no time would he allow his men the luxury of exploiting them.
– Narrator Peter Gwynne

Key Cast & Crew

William Austin

As: Voice of James Cook

Peter Gwynne

Narrator

Geoffrey Scott

Producer

Ron Bowie

Producer

Lynton Diggle

Cinematographer

Jeremy Sykes

Director, Writer, Editor

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The National Film Unit

Source

Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision - TVNZ Collection

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