Country Lads

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Title

Country Lads

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NZ On Screen

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Description

Country Lads was used to advocate for a reorganised government filmmaking body, to publicise the war effort during WWll. It went on to screen in Kiwi cinemas as the first production released by the newly born National Film Unit. It features footage of soldiers as they leave for the front. Adolf Hitler had called the Kiwi soldiers "poor deluded country lads"; but here the description is turned into a compliment. The narrator mentions Kiwi pioneers who "helped make this country what it is: happ...

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Video

Date created

1941

URL

https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/country-lads-1941

Related subjects

nfu / wellington / cenotaph / propaganda / myth / pioneers / anzac / rural / war / wwii / soldiers

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