FILM ABOUT WAR BRIDES

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25087, 20 January 1947, Page 2

FILM ABOUT WAR BRIDES

ENGLISH COMPANY’S PROJECT “The Press”’ Special Service AUCKLAND, January 18. The filming of New Zealand scenery, industry, and sporting life by a novel method tor the oldest English film concern, Butchers Film Service, Ltd., has been entrusted to Mr Lee Hill, .Who spent 18 months in England as official photographer to the Second N.Z.E.F. (U.K.). Mr Lee Hill has selected five English war brides of New Zealand servicemen as the background to his film, which will be entitled “Tenakohe” and which will be produced mainly for the British public; but will also be shown in New Zealand. The types selected by Mr Lee Hill for the film are wives of a dairy farmer, a freezing worker, a sheep farmer, a waterside worker, and an Auckland tram conductor. He has already completed 5000 ft of film, and the project is expected to be finished by the end of March. Mr Lee Hill is at present m Auckland engaged in this contract. Having met the brides at the wharf in Wellington, he is following them with his camera during their first six months in the country. He is accompanied by his wife, who is also an English bride; but she does not appear in any of the films. He hopes that the main film on which he is engaged will, also be shown in America, but its mam object will be to show the British public the life which the English wives of New Zealand servicemen are enjoying here.