NEW FILMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 March 1940, Page 9

NEW FILMS

' NATURE'S MIMIC AND POSTAL ROMANCE. As a result of many inquiries about lhe lyre bird—Australia's greatest song-bird and mimic lhe Australian Pavilion authorities have included an excellent short talking film ci.' it in the daily screenings al lhe Pavilion's theatrette. The lyre bird in its mimicry is often heard to imitate in succession the laugh of the kookaburra. the crack of the whip-bird, the .scream of the cockatoos, tile buzz of a circular saw in :: timber mill, the whistle of a train and the howling of a dingo—in fact any sound which penetrates into ihe deeper bush where it builds its large domed nest. Called the "liar" bird jokingly, this excellent mimic get its real name from lhe formation of its long tail feathers. BACK STAGE WITH LETTERS. Reaching a new standard of New Zealand film technique is the first-rate ten-minute showing entitled "The Royal Mail," which is included in the daily sessions in the Government Court cinema. The film tells with pleasing interest the story behind the mails and Jinks together many glimpses of the vast organisation on land and sea and in the air that brings the most trifling and the most important correspondence to- its

recipient with the same regularity and efficiency. The photography is excellent and the commentary interesting. From the country postman pedalling from homestead to homestead along roughly formed roads to the skilled sorters that work behind the ranks of mail boxes at central post offices the story is told of the postal organisation in New Zealand which has enlisted the ' aid of the aeroplane, lhe locomotive the motorcar, and the ship to obtain the speediest transport in all parts of the Dominion and to all parts of the world.