About this item
- Title
- Giants of the Past
- Content partner
- NZ On Screen
- Collection
- NZ On Screen
- Description
Surveying All Blacks rugby from 1905 until 1967, this wide-ranging documentary is framed around the NZ Rugby Football Union’s 75th jubilee celebrations. The archival gold mine includes matches from the 1905 Originals and 1924 Invincibles tours, and clashes with Springboks, British Lions, Wallabies and French rivals. There's also footage of NZ schoolboy and NZ Māori clashes, and a jubilee match with Australia. Funded by Caltex NZ, the documentary was made by legendary Pacific Films co-founder ...
- Format
- Video
- Date created
- 1967
- URL
- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/giants-of-the-past-1967
- Related subjects
- rugby / sixties / 60s / pacific films / caltex / all blacks / all black / bert cooke / cliff porter / hanley brown / ian harvey / jock richardson / snowy spencer / gus hart / freddy lucas / mark nichols / wallabies / springboks / british isles / british lions / australia / twickenham / france / nzef / new zealand expeditionary force / riseman / mooloo / waikato / rugby park / hamilton / don clarke / lancaster park / nzrfu / jubilee / billy wallace / bob stewart / darnie craven / ss dean / tom morrision / ron jarden / bill clark / carrisbrook / carisbrook / bob scott / nz maori / bill grey / george nepia / prince of wales cup / bill fray / bill gray / pat walsh / beattie / going / bunny abbot / harold abbott / brian lochore / bledisloe cup / kel temain / des connor / matt herewini / mack herewini / drop kick / monsieur drop / mick williment / tiny white / bill bertwhistle / tony steel / peter jones / maurice brownlie / wallie ingram / richard wild
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