MAKING A FILM

New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 762, 26 February 1954, Page 18

MAKING A FILM

|-ILM-MAKING is. an interesting and exciting business, and something of its'excitement, and an insight into some of its problems, will be brought to listeners in On Location, a documentary progtamme about the filming of The Seekers, which is to be heard from all ZB stations at 10.0 p.ni. this Sunday (February 28). On Location, which -vas written and produced for the NZBS by Arthur E. Jones, includes interviews and background material recotded at Honeymoon Bay, on Lake Rotoiti, whiie the British unit which is making the film was at work there. Mr. Jones had just returned to Auckland and was busy writing his linking script and Selecting the recorded material he has used in the programme when The Listener called to ask him about it. "We joined the unit in the Rotorua area and were with them for several days-travelling with them, watching them and even working with them," he said. "Twenty-three people had travelled out from England, and we were able to get interviews with such top-line actors as Jack Hawkins and Noel Purcell, and such experienced filmmakers as the producer George Brown, the director Ken Annakin, and the cameraman Peter Hennessey. Others who talked about their work for our programme included the continuity girl, the dress designer, the make-up artist, the hair stylist and the production man- --------

ager. We got something also from a New Zealander playing if? the film." On Location includes a description of the shooting of a scene in which the German-Javanese actress Laya Raki swims up to Jack Hawkins, fishing at the water’s edge, and throws him a fish she has caught on a spear. Listeners will hear in this part of the programme the voice of Ken Annakin, as he actually directed the shot with an NZBS microphone in one hand. They will hear also in On Location some extracts from. the script for The Seekers spoken’ by -_ Hawkins and Noel Purcell. ¢ se