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This short film from 1944 features a New Zealand solider in the Pacific during the Second World War who has invented his own washing machine and wringer. The film expresses a nationalistic pride in Kiwi ingenuity, which is seen as being a distinctive value of the country's people.
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Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga
Reference: Weekly Review 142. National Film Unit, 1944
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