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Don't Leave Town Till You've Seen the Country
Commercial (Full Length) – 1984
Hey, they say they've got over 350 islands in them Bay of Islands...– A cab driver in New York (Harold Kissin) waxes lyrical about Northland
I’ve always had a soft spot for this commercial. Though it had one of the smallest budgets of any I directed over a decade, it was a triumph of ‘make-believe’. We begged, borrowed and bartered two stock shots of New York and Paris, and shot the rest in Auckland in a day.– Director Owen Hughes
There’s not a lot of nuance, quite a bit of 80s swagger, which in hindsight reflects the times. Case in point, in popular culture, 1984 was a turning point for those stage-strutters Tina Turner and Madonna...– Director Owen Hughes
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