“DEAD” MAORIS COME TO LIFE
REALISTIC FILM FIRE f + “T'iEAD" Maori warriors sprang to life and rushed for safety when a Maori village was burned at Ohiwa, near Opotiki, during the production of a few reels of the film “Tauranga.” In the suffocating heat the producer, Mr. Collins, and his two photographers, Messrs. IT. Smith and W. Clime, held their ground and one of the most realistic pieces of a Maori story has been imprisoned in celluloid. For the purposes of the picture a village had to be burned and the whares were filled with tea-tree and soaked with oil. Yelling with excitement the opposing Maoris assaulted the village bearing flaming torches with which they set the wliares alight. The fire was a huge success—such a success in fact that many of the “dead” Maoris were badly scorched ami burned, but this particular piece of the film will be remarkably realistic.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 423, 3 August 1928, Page 13
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151“DEAD” MAORIS COME TO LIFE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 423, 3 August 1928, Page 13
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