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Moriori
Television (Full Length Episode) – 1980
Director Wayne Tourell grabs a rare quiet moment while working on his Feltex-Award-winning documentary Moriori (1980).
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Behind the scenes at the Moriori village built for 1980 documentary Moriori. Graham Smith is behind the camera. Director Wayne Tourell sits to his right, with his arm out, then sound recordist Rod Wilson (standing), writer/producer Bill Saunders (in white) and Margaret Solomon, a grandchild of the last full-blooded Moriori.
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Camera operator Graham Smith captures children playing stick games, while filming scenes for award-winning documentary Moriori (1980). The shot was taken at a Moriori village recreated on Rēkohu in the Chatham Islands.
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Behind the scenes on 1980 documentary Moriori.
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Behind the scenes at the Moriori village constructed for Moriori at Rēkohu in the Chatham Islands.
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Filming at the Moriori village constructed for 1980 documentary Moriori. The camera dolly was made from old railway lines and a railway jigger found on Rēkohu in the Chatham Islands.
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The Moriori village recreated on the Chatham Islands for 1980 documentary Moriori.
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The Moriori village recreated on the Chatham Islands for 1980 documentary Moriori. The replica waka kōrari, a Moriori wash-through raft, was built by Murray Thacker from Okains Bay Museum, who died in 2017.
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Charles Solomon Rehu and the late Margaret Solomon (aka Margaret Hamilton), the 'stars' of Moriori, in the reconstructed Moriori village.
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Some of the Moriori crew on Rēkohu. From left, an unknown design crew member, designer Mark White, wardrobe person Lorraine Blewitt (in cap), & researcher Julienne Stretton. Front row: writer/ producer Bill Saunders, camera assistant Alan Hough & Christchurch crew member Doug Hamilton. Behind them on the right is director Wayne Tourell. Back row from left: sound recordist Rod Wilson (in hat), cameraman Graham Smith (standing) and Craig Dixon (in hat).
Photo probably taken by Kay Darby
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