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Close Ups on NZ Film History
Nine Years of Weekly Review
“Never take the camera off the tripod; shoot every scene in long shot, medium shot and close; when panning do so from left to right.”
Such were the exacting rules of the National Film Unit in the 1940s. Stanhope Andrews was the first producer at "The Unit" when it was formed in 1941.
At first the Review's goal was to keep New Zealanders up to date with the war effort, but later it combined news with stories of ordinary New Zealanders. Audiences delighted in seeing people and places they knew on the big screen in the Weekly Review.
Production was stopped in 1950 following allegations of political bias.
- Weekly Review [title] (576kb)
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