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admiration for the New Zealand documentary programme, having listened to too many in the past which have been produced by hesitant speakers without scripts, or, if more carefully prepared and edited, have been punctuated by loud bursts of music and strange "noises off" in an attempt to manufacture local colour. Even so, as I listened to the BBC feature The Palace of Westminster, it seemed that I had already heard many times the information contained in it, and that I should have welcomed more warmly a feature on the New Zealand Parliament Buildings, the history of which is probably much less familiar to many New Zealanders. Shortly afterwards, I heard a local documentary, The Age of Flight, an hourlong survey of aviation in New Zealand, which proved that someone here is capable of producing documentaries, a thing I had begun to hope when I heard the programme on Everest. Like the Everest programme, The Age of Flight, relied without pretentiousness on fact, and incorporated into its interesting historical treatment of its subject earlier recordings such as the voices of Kingsford-Smith and Sir Frank Whittle. No music was used, and very few sound effects, a promising sign of maturity. NJ I have little
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 739, 11 September 1953, Page 10
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205RELIANCE ON FACT New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 739, 11 September 1953, Page 10
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