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’s Coubraytone sound system, though also having intertitles. The film was registered with the Chief Censor on 14 August 1930, but was never released. Producer, director and script writer Edward T. Brown had purchased some footage from the 1923 film '' The Birth of New Zealand''. Several episodes included pre-European culture, the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi and a robbery and kidnapping in the

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goldfields. The holdup of a Cobb & Co coach incorporated stock Western clichés according to Sam Edwards; masked robbers, the driver holding his hands high and jewellery ripped from women passengers.

Cast

The cast included Patch Mason, Tom Campbell and apparently Stella Southern as the mother of a boy passenger kidnapped during the holdup episode.

References

*''New Zealand Film 1912-1996'' by Helen Martin & Sam Edwards p43 (1997, Oxford University Press, Auckland) 1930 films 1930s New Zealand films 1930s historical drama films Films set in New Zealand 1930 drama films Films shot in New Zealand New Zealand historical drama films 1930s English-language films {{1930s-drama-film-stub