Weekly Review
Short Film, 1942–1950
The National Film Unit was set up in 1941 to publicise New Zealand’s war effort. The unit’s output soon evolved into the Weekly Review, a weekly reel screened in cinemas. Confusingly the first Weekly Review in October 1942 was named No. 60. It was the principal NZ film series produced in the 1940s. The series ended in August 1950 with the 459th issue. The reviews were a mix of newsreel and general interest stories and occasionally, full-reel documentaries. Some were later re-issued (without the Weekly Review title) for screening in educational and overseas markets.
Taupō Fires
Short Film, 1946 (Full Length)
War Years
Film, 1983 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No 138 - Women Truck Drivers
Short Film, 1944 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 140 - Easter Action on Bougainville
Short Film, 1944 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 169 - New Zealand Soldiers and Polish Children
Short Film, 1944 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 183
Short Film, 1945 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 195 - New Zealand Celebrates VE Day
Short Film, 1945 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 200 - Flying Out from Germany
Short Film, 1945 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 204 - Civic Reception to Prime Minister Peter Fraser
Short Film, 1945 (Excerpts)
Weekly Review No. 206 - Danger in Trieste
Short Film, 1945 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 208 - VJ Day Celebrations
Short Film, 1945 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 215 - New Zealand Cameraman in Singapore
Short Film, 1945 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 232 - Māori Battalion Returns
Short Film, 1946 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 249 - New Zealand and World War II
Short Film, 1946 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 258 - Civvy Street
Short Film, 1946 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 263 - Rugby in New Zealand
Short Film, 1946 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 267 - Winter Sports at Mount Cook
Short Film, 1946 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 280 - Patterns in Flax
Short Film, 1947 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 310 - Mail Run
Short Film, 1947 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 324 - Māori School
Short Film, 1947 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 332 - Hokianga ... Backblock Medical Service
Short Film, 1948 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 337 - Wheat Problem 1948
Short Film, 1948 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 346 - Rhythm and Movement
Short Film, 1948 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 347
Short Film, 1948 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 350 - New Zealanders for the Olympics
Short Film, 1948 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 355 - Railway Worker
Short Film, 1948 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 367 - Crippled Children Society
Short Film, 1948 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 368
Short Film, 1948 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 374 - The Coaster
Short Film, 1948 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 395 - Interview...Sir Peter Buck
Short Film, 1949 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 401
Short Film, 1949 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 407
Short Film, 1949 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 413 - From Potter's Wheel to Mass Production
Short Film, 1949 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 416 - Prelude to Aspiring
Short Film, 1949 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 427
Short Film, 1949 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 431
Short Film, 1949 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 432
Short Film, 1949 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 437 - Ornithology ... Notornis Expedition
Short Film, 1950 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 446
Short Film, 1950 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 459 - The Final Issue
Short Film, 1950 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 60 - The First Episode
Short Film, 1942 (Full Length)
Weekly Review No. 97 - Coal from Westland
Short Film, 1943 (Full Length)
