Hinemoa (1913 film)

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name = Hinemoa


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director = Gaston Méliès
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released = 27 March 1913 (USA)
runtime = 2 reels (ca. 24 min.)
country = France/New Zealand
language = silent
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Hinemoa was a silent film made in New Zealand by Gaston Méliès in 1913. It is probably the first feature film produced in New Zealand, although it is doubtful that it ever screened in that country. [ [http://www.filmnz.com/introducing-nz/film-industry-history.html Film New Zealand - history] ]

Plot

No copy of "Hinemoa" survives, but the film would have told the story of the [http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/1966/H/HinemoaLegendOf/en legend of Tutanekai and Hinemoa] .

Background

In 1912, the Méliès brothers' company Star Film was in some financial strife, as a result of which Gaston Méliès travelled to the South Pacific in search of fashionably exotic locales, people and stories. ["The History of Ethnographic Film" by Emilie de Brigard, in "Principles of Visual Anthropology" ed. Paul Hockings, 1995 ISBN 3110126273]

Hinemoa was one of five two-reel films screened in New York in 1913, several other films shot by Méliès on the expedition having failed to survive the tropical humidity.

ee also

* Loved by a Maori Chieftainess
* Hinemoa (1914 film) - New Zealand produced and released film a year later.

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