Broken Barrier

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Title

Broken Barrier

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By World War II locally-made movies were largely missing in action: Broken Barrier marked the first NZ dramatic feature since 1940. Its production saw makers John O'Shea and Roger Mirams crowd into a Vauxhall with a rickety dolly and two silent cameras, one picked up "from a dead German in the Western Desert". Ditching dialogue for 'spoken thoughts', the pioneering film examines cultural complications in a romance between a Pākehā journalist and a Māori nurse. According to O'Shea, some viewer...

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Video

Date created

1952

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http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/broken-barrier-1952

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forestry / rural-urban drift / urbanisation / race relations / mahia / romance / east coast / desert road / cross cultural / cross-cultural / 50s / fifties

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