Pictorial Parade No. 55

An elegiac profile of artist Eric Lee-Johnson, by Maurice Shadbolt, is the high point of this NFU magazine film. Johnson gave up a lucrative commercial career to pursue his vision of a New Zealand art moving beyond European tradition; and he is observed chronicling abandoned homesteads and churches, built in remote reaches of Northland's Hokianga harbour by early Pākehā settlers. There's light relief in coverage of a chimpanzees' tea party at Wellington Zoo, while a suitably breathless piece looks at a new industry manufacturing fibreglass boats.

They’re all made the same way. Just lay it on and slap it on.

– How to make a fibre glass boat (narration)

Key Cast & Crew

James Harris

Writer, Camera

Maurice Shadbolt

Writer, Editor, Director