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Mouth Wide Open: A Journey in Film with Ted Coubray

Film (Excerpts) – 1998

Seven decades after he began shooting films, Ted Coubray got his close-up in Mouth Wide Open. The documentary emerged shortly after his death in late 1997. It captured the hive of filmmaking activity that was 1920s Aotearoa — and Coubray's role as a pioneering cameraman, who even directed his own movie (horse racing hit Carbine's Heritage). The arrival of synchronised sound upped film budgets considerably; Coubray was one of the first in Australasia to create his own sound camera. In this opening sequence, he demonstrates one of his many camera-related inventions. 

"...mouth wide open, struck with stupor, surprised beyond expression..."
– Reaction of French film pioneer George Méliès to the very first public screening of motion pictures, in December 1895

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Moa Films

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Moa Films

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