KINEMACOLOR

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3108, 12 June 1917, Page 7

KINEMACOLOR

- PICTURES OF NEW ZEALAND. It is now some years since the first kinemacolor pictures were shown in Wellington at the now defunct Theatre Koyal. Although they wero very wonderful in the natural colours reproduced they never succeeded in ousting from favour the half-tono pic-

tures that, one may see any evening in the week at any picture theatre] Sinco that time the advance ia the art of kinomacolor has not been eta-iking. They etill amaze.with their fidelity to nature, and even kindred tones are giveu distinct identity, no matter how closely related they are, but now and again there is a blurring of outline and that poculiar edging of the colours of tho prism that one sees in the levelled edge of a mirror, that id slightly disturbing to tho ocular sense. Tho pictures shown at tho Town Hall last evening wore unusually interesting IE that they dealt to some purpose with our own beautiful wonderland, whose 6cenio marves no canie.ra can over hope to do even tho barest justice. In this respect, however, the kinemacolor sorved an admirable purpose in. giving character to tho various classes of scenes, the brown of tho rotten rock and earth at \Vhakarewarewa forming a fine, contrast to the pure white of the boiling water that is being shot in tho air to buret into feathery festoons against the bluo 0.6 the sky. ' Tho views of Whaka wero most interesting both to those who know-that weird locality and thoso to whom it is strange. T'bero the Maori women wero shown washing their linen in public with the aid of hot springs; Maori children disported themselves m natural tepid baths, and troupes of Natives, rigged out in their ceremonial mats and wearing the tikis that lire but rarely produced in public, enacted scenes of ancient Maori lite, customs, and maniiora that are but seldom witnessed in a pwo state of nature in thoeo times. Tho camera man must have sailed long and anxiously, for 'ho certainly got the very best out Whaka's freakish geysers. Excellent pictures of the grounds (it l\otorua, trout-fishing at Tarawora, the l'tying Pan Vials, and tho blow-hole at Waimangu (now among tho relics of .'tho past) were also shown in colour. Then thero wero pictures of agricultural Now Zealand—Us eheepruns and wheat fields and erass-eeoding operations, loading operations at tho wharves, etc., all of as much interest to the city-bred Now Zealander as- to the outsider. Some of tho most beautiful gccnorv shown was that of Milford Sound, Sutherland I'alK tho M.U-ford-Te Anau track,; and tho inspiring Mt. Cook district. . Tho pictures iilen included kincm:icolor -views of Canada from life, and scones in tho toworing Eockies to winier sports in tho shadow of a largo city. From Canada one was transported to, the doer-lands of England, with a stag-hunt in progress, (thenco to tho beautiful .Solent, where the groat while winga of hundreds of yachts mad<> the fairest of pictures. Tho views of pome motor-boat racing wnro also.vividly interesting. Horticulturists will be fascinated, too, by the picture display of (lowers (hat bloom iu all their modest beauty while .you wait. Tho pictures-are woll worth a visit by all' lovers of Nature in lid most beautiful aspects. • Among those present, last evening wero the Hons. W. H. Hemes 'and G. W. Bussell, and a large representation, of tho Public Service.