ColinMcKenzie
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- Cinematographer
Colin McKenzie joins Rudall Hayward and Ted Coubray as one of the earliest New Zealanders to make feature films on Kiwi soil. McKenzie was a technical innovator, responsible for a number of international filmmaking firsts. His unfinished epic Salome finally premiered in 1995, six decades after his death.
Screenography
Biography
Colin McKenzie's career neatly spans the beginnings of New Zealand cinema: his debut filmmaking efforts occured just a few years after the very first film was shot on local soil, in 1898. McKenzie would abandon work on his final movie, an epic version of Salome, just as the initial burst of local feature filmmaking came to an abrupt stop in 1931.
“Here was this unknown genius who died in obscurity, and now belongs in the pantheon of great cinema artists and innovators.”
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