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Wayleggo

Short Film (Full Length) – 1965

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This 1965 National Film Unit classic follows the working life of a young musterer, on a 145,000 acre South Island merino sheep station. He hands over his swag and gets to work (after he’s been mocked for bringing an electric blanket). He begins in the summer: training dogs and breaking in a horse. In the autumn it’s the muster: wrangling 10,000 sheep from the tops, across rivers and down to the yards before winter snow. Peter Newton’s 1947 musterer memoir, Wayleggo, was a local bestseller, and the film bolsters the book’s Kiwi mountain man mythology.

You little beaut!
– Young musterer, to his dog Bob

Key Cast & Crew

Bob Kingsbury

Director, Writer

Oxley Hughan

Producer

Geoffrey Scott

Producer

Murray Wood

Narrator

Oswald Cheesman

Composer

Kenneth Rolls

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Produced by

The National Film Unit

Source

Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision - TVNZ Collection

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