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Volcanic Power
Short Film (Full Length) – 1962
It’s just the sort of skilled and muscular job to appeal to the Kiwi temperament.– From the narration, on bore work
Nothing is ever quite predictable on this battleground for power.– From the narration
It would take 40 million watts to boil a kettle this size electrically, and yet natural heat has been producing it for 75 years.– The narrator describes Lake Tarawera, the world's largest boiling lake
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