Edwin "Ted" Coubray (19 October 1900 – 10 December 1997) was a New Zealand projectionist, filmmaker and inventor. He was born in

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, and died in Homebush,

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. He retired to Australia in 1973 after Auckland Cinemas, for which he was working, closed the Tudor Cinema in

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. He directed and produced '' Carbine's Heritage'' (1927); and was involved as cameraman, photography or continuous printer in '' The Birth of New Zealand'' (1922), ''Rewi's Last Stand'' (1925), ''

The Adventures of Algy ''The Adventures of Algy'' is a 1925 Australian film comedy from director Beaumont Smith about a " silly ass" Englishman (Claude Dampier) who inherits a sheep station in New Zealand. It is an unofficial follow up to ''Hullo Marmaduke'' (1924), w ...

'' (1925), ''

The Romance of Maoriland ''The Romance of Maoriland'' was a 1930 New Zealand film, intended to be New Zealand's first "talkie" film with Ted Coubray’s Coubraytone sound system, though also having intertitles. The film was registered with the Chief Censor on 14 August ...

'' (1930), ''

Hei Tiki ''Hei Tiki'', also known as ''Primitive Passions'' and ''Hei Tiki: A Saga of the Maoris'', is a 1935 American mock documentary film made in New Zealand by the eccentric Alexander Markey and released (with sound added) in America. The film gained ...

'' (1935) (although he was fired by the eccentric producer

Alexander Markey Alexander Markey (1891–1958) was an American filmmaker and founder of Markey Films. He was born in Hungary and died in Switzerland. From 1928 to 1935 he was in New Zealand making films about the Māori people. In 1928 he was sent by Carle La ...

, who also sold his camera to his rivals, the Welsh brothers), and ''Rewi's Last Stand'' (1940). In 1929, he presented New Zealand's first newsreel under the title ''Coubraytone News.'' He built much of his own equipment, and his company was called ''New Zealand Radio Films.''

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