The Romance Of Maoriland (1930)
- Genre
- drama film
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
The film was an early New Zealand talkie that covered episodes from pre-European times to gold rush robberies. It had scenes of tribal culture and a stagecoach holdup but was never released to the public.
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What happens
The Romance of Maoriland was a 1930 New Zealand film, intended to be New Zealand's first "talkie" film with Ted Coubray’s Coubraytone sound system, though also having intertitles. The film was registered with the Chief Censor on 14 August 1930, but was never released. Producer, director and script writer Edward T. Brown had purchased some footage from the 1923 film The Birth of New Zealand. Several episodes included pre-European culture, the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi and a robbery and kidnapping in the Gabriel's Gully goldfields. The holdup of a Cobb & Co coach incorporated stock Western clichés according to Sam Edwards; masked robbers, the driver holding his hands high and jewellery ripped from women passengers. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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