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Artists Prepare: Sam Hunt and Gary McCormick
Short Film (Full Length) – 1980
Artists Prepare was a 1980 TV series from the National Film Unit, which featured prominent performance-based artists. This edition follows poets Sam Hunt and Gary McCormick (the "John Travolta of New Zealand poetry") on a tour of the Nelson region. They give poetry readings, talk to high school girls, drink whiskey, and muse about poetry and life — while Minstrel, Hunt's dog, lies patiently under bar tables. Ultratight stovepipe jeans, rock star scarves, and scenes in a milk bar and out on the open road in a Valiant evoke a time when 'poetry' and 'heartthrob' could comfortably sit in the same sentence.
I've been performing since I was born! About thirty three years...– 00.20 Sam Hunt talks about his life as a poet
Key Cast & Crew
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Acknowledgements
ARCHIVES NEW ZEALAND REFERENCE - B5967
Source format – 16mm motion picture film
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