James Harris
Welsh-born James Harris played an important role in the founding of the National Film Unit in 1941. A well-educated, versatile filmmaker equally at home behind the camera, operating a splicer or wielding a pen, he spent 26 years with the NFU, mostly as a senior director. Photo credit: Archives New Zealand, reference AAQT 6401 A23,729
Where all jobs overlap no one is indispensible, and also general versatility makes the studio a good training ground, the film-making job being seen whole. James Harris writing in Screen Parade, January 1945
War Years
1983, Original filmmaker - Film
The Young Giant Kaingaroa
1966, Editor, Writer - Short Film
Pictorial Parade No. 181 - Christchurch: Weathermen Look Up
1966, Writer, Editor, Director - Short Film
Plastiphobia
1964, Editor - Short Film
Space Flight
1962, Editor, Commentary Writer - Short Film
Volcanic Power
1962, Writer, Editor, Director - Short Film
Jet Boats in New Zealand
1961, Writer, Editor, Camera - Short Film
Pictorial Parade No. 99
1960, Camera, Writer - Short Film
Pictorial Parade No. 55
1956, Writer, Camera - Short Film
Pictorial Parade No. 8 - New Zealand Celebrates Coronation
1953, Editor - Short Film
Tuberculosis and the Māori People of the Wairoa District
1952, Director, Writer - Short Film
Weekly Review No. 446
1950, Camera, Editor - Museum, Writer - Museum - Short Film
Weekly Review No. 395 - Interview...Sir Peter Buck
1949, Editor, Writer - Short Film
Weekly Review No. 413 - From Potter's Wheel to Mass Production
1949, Writer, Editor - Short Film
Weekly Review No. 267 - Winter Sports at Mount Cook
1946, Writer, Editor - Short Film
Weekly Review No. 258 - Civvy Street
1946, Writer, Editor - Short Film
Weekly Review No. 206 - Danger in Trieste
1945, Writer, Editor - Short Film
Weekly Review No. 200 - Flying Out from Germany
1945, Writer, Editor - Short Film
Weekly Review No. 140 - Easter Action on Bougainville
1944, Editor - Short Film
New Zealand Munitions
1941, Director, Writer, Camera, Editor - Short Film