Landmarks - The Main Trunk Line

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Landmarks - The Main Trunk Line

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This eighth episode in the Landmarks series was the first episode filmed, to test how geographer Kenneth Cumberland handled being in front of the camera. On a Cook Strait ferry in a southerly, he begins exploring how trade and people have gotten about Aotearoa: from the “Māori main trunk line” (beach, water), sailing ships, Cobb & Co and ‘Shanks's Pony’, to the railways and Bob Semple’s roadmaking bulldozers.The episode ends with the national grid and airways, with a rocky landing at Well...

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Video

Date created

1981

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https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/landmarks-main-trunkline-1981

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