Kōrero: Documentary film

Neuline Film Studios shoot, 1948

Neuline Film Studios shoot, 1948

Using an improvised underwater camera housing, the production crew of Neuline Film Studios shoots Learn to swim for the Department of Education at an Auckland swimming pool in 1948. The film's director, Ronald Bowie, later made award-winning documentaries for the National Film Unit. Its producer, and Neuline's founder, was Australian-born Robert Steele. In 1950 he made Indictment!, an exposé of sub-standard housing in Auckland.

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Auckland Libraries
Reference: Footprints 02499
Photograph by Alton Francis

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Courtesy of Mrs Diane Francis

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Helen Martin, 'Documentary film - Educating the public – 1940 to 1960', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/43586/neuline-film-studios-shoot-1948 (accessed 28 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Helen Martin, i tāngia i te 22 Oct 2014