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Legend of Birds
Short Film (Full Length) – 1962
He has a tui’s throat the Māoris used to say, to praise a speaker.– Narrator Paul Ricketts
Always eating, always talking, he sometimes holds a filibuster and the kākās from the forest fly to listen to his squarking. Squarks about his indigestion, population and congestion, politics the current question; talks about his operation, kākās can become a nation, protests against nosy parkers, New Zealand only for the kākās! Stop the noise from Māori haka … who’ll do something about the kākā? Kākā of the world unite!– From the narration, a poetic tribute to the kāka
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