Tracking Shots
Close Ups on NZ Film History
Hollywood at Home
$12.00 a night to hire a video. That was what it cost in the early 80s once you had paid between $2,000 and $3,500 for the recorder.
New Zealanders took up the new technology enthusiastically. By mid-1985 there was a recorder in about 21 percent of New Zealand homes and by 1994 in 72 percent. Video rental outlets also sprang up reaching 503 in 1993.
By the end of the 80s, movie attendances had sunk to an average of three a head per year, but films themselves were more popular than ever. And video cameras had became a fixture at family events.
