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Kōrero: Screen industry

Country calendar

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The development of New Zealand television’s production abilities can be traced in Country calendar, a Television New Zealand show about farming. First shown in 1966, the series was still going in the 2020s. The first programmes were stiff and sometimes awkward, and largely studio-based. Within a few years outside broadcasts were taken for granted; farmers around the country were interviewed and on-farm activities were filmed as a matter of course.

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Megan Cook, Screen industry – The early years, 1895 to 1970s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/video/44153/country-calendar-1966 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Megan Cook, i tāngia i te 11 February 2014.