Through the eyes of a taxi driver
“The Greymouth Taxi?Ua 50-minute Natiofihl . Film Unit documentary’ about a taxi driver in Greymouth, will be screened on One on Sunday at 7 p.m. The taxi driver is’ -a man who can. through himelf and the people around him. give an extensive and . in-depth impression of life irt a small New Zealand town, savs TVNZ. Before beginning production. extensive research was carried out in New Plymouth. Tauranga. Nelson, Westport, and Greymouth.
The final selection of a community was based solely on the personality of the driver concerned. John Hayden. He has been a driver for 10 years, and has always lived in Greymouth. He knows the community intimately. and emerges’ as a subtle, sympathetic, and essentially humorous man. savs TVNZ. Aside from the daily operation of John Haydens taxi business.. the film also features the taxi company dispatcher. Marion Reedy, also a Greymouth native.
who has .-been calling the taxis for almost 30 years. Details of daily life are interspersed in the film with anecdotes '.from several prominent and not-so-prominent older people who can tell stories about their experience of growing up and living in this community. The emphasis in these anecdotes is on humorous incidents. "The Greymouth Taxi” is part of the "Lookout" series and was produced by. Michael Reeves for the .National Film Unit.
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Press, 30 June 1982, Page 19
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