Carnival Coast

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Title

Carnival Coast

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Description

In this National Film Unit-produced 'documentary' a circus sets up at the beach. Made for the Ministry of Works to stir debate about the use of coastal land, director Michael Reeves' wiggy treatment of the subject situates the film in the 'frustrated auteur meets sober commission' NFU tradition. Ringmaster Ian Mune is a seaside Willy Wonka canvassing claims to the coast. Demands of development, recreation, and housing are dramatised — including a bizarre look at stranger danger in suburbia, a...

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Format

Video

Date created

1974

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circus / merry-go-round / merry go round / coast / coastal / beach / merry go ro / spoof / ad shoot / commercials / real estate / mrienz / bach / crib / holiday house / traffic / biker / bikee / suburbia / suburbs / suburban / construction / 70s / 1970s / seventies / stranger danger / triumph / motorcycle / sewerage / don quixot / sancho panza / beauty quee / ministry of works / a-frame / beauty show / garden gnome / garden flamingo / innuendo / dwarf / wellington railway station / devonport / acid / surreal / pauanui / sewer

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