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Kia Ora Bonjour - Part One

1990 Television
  • Arts/Culture
  • Travel
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Howard Morrison visits France for the first time in this two-part Kiwi production, made to mark the bicentenary of Bastille Day. His tour of French culture begins on the Champs-Élysées on the big day itself, then ranges from Napoleon to Notre Dame, with visits to the Musée de l’Homme to see taonga, plus crepe-flipping and Parisian cabaret (where he belts out a song onstage). When the Māori leaves Metro range, it’s fishing in Neuvic and ‘Pokarekare Ana’ accompanied by accordion. In Corrèze he meets another Kiwi, and uses a minitel (an early version of the world wide web).

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A behind the scenes shot in France in 1989, during the making of two-part documentary Kia Ora Bonjour. From left to right: sound man Paul Stent, researcher Lindsay Dawber and cameraman John Ramsay.
Supplied by Stuart Short