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MurrayReece

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Murray Reece has been the director at a number of key turning points in New Zealand's television history: from the debut of our first drama series (Pukemanu), to the first telemovie (The God Boy), to the episode of Country Calendar where Fred Dagg first showed us around the farm.

Screenography

Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy
1996 Animation Layouts Short film
The Great White Man-Eating Shark
1994 Animator Short film
The Last Tattoo
1994 Director - Second Unit Director Film
Pathways - Pilot Episode
1994 Director Short film
Homeward Bound
1992 Director Series

Biography

Murray Reece started his career at the NZ Broadcasting Corporation in the late 60s, initially as a film cameraman. He captured images for episodes of Country Calendar, and shot exteriors for acclaimed teleplay A Game for Five Players. The latter was part of a push to develop more local television drama (behind the scenes footage of the teleplay being made can be seen in the closing minutes of this 1967 documentary).

“After The God Boy debuted on TV One, plaudits flowed in newspaper review columns, and Wellington’s Evening Post devoted a front-page headline to the achievement of its local production team.”

— Trisha Dunleavy, in her 2005 book Ourselves in Primetime: A History of New Zealand Television Drama

Related images

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The Producers' Course of 1970. From left, back row: Peter Sharp, ?, Donald Hope Evans, Wayne Tourell, Alan Lyne, John Whitwell, Michael Noonan, and Bob Blair. Front: David McPhail, Peter Coates, Roy Melford, Murray Reece and Mike Mune.
Kindly supplied by Peter Coates
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"Not all the action was on the track at the Tauherenikau races recently, for TV's Pukemanu team was there filming episode 2. Here actress Pat Evison (Phyllis Telford) is seen with a group of young children she has taken to the races yelling home her fave. The filming team with lights, microphones and camera is almost lost among interested onlookers." The Evening Post, 1972.
Kindly supplied by the Dominion Post.