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Landmarks - A Land Apart
Television (Full Length) – 1981
Presented by Kenneth Cumberland, Landmarks looked at New Zealand history through the landscape — and at man "coming to terms" with it. In this episode Aotearoa's "last, lonely, remote" geography is framed as a stimulus for ingenuity. A narrative of "triumph over the elements" finds its flag bearer in the DIY story of jet boat inventor Bill Hamilton. Cumberland is donnish but game in pursuit of telling landmarks: exposing seashells alongside the Napier-Taupō highway (700 metres above sea level) like a downunder Darwin, or in a gas mask on an erupting White Island.
Key Cast & Crew
See all 10 credits
Acknowledgements
Landmarks was produced in association with The Department of Education and Fletcher Challenge Limited
Thanks to CWF Hamilton & Co Ltd
Music
Music composed and conducted by Bernie Allen, and performed by the NZ Symphony Orchestra
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