DOCUMENTARY FILMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 257, 27 September 1940, Page 6

DOCUMENTARY FILMS.

CAMERA-MAN’S VISIT,

Per Press Association

AUCKLAND, Sept. 26i Only a week after a business trip to Mexico from his' home in New lork, Mr Victor J. Jurgens, March of Time camera-man, reached Auckland by the Honolulu Clipper on his way to Australia. He will fly to Sydney'on Saturday.

Many thousands of miles have been covered by Mr Jurgens on assignments for the organisation with which he is associated, and he has made films in various parts of North and South America, Japan. Guam, Hong Kong, and the Dutch East Indies. With him ho has brought equipment for making separate documentary films in both New Zealand and Australia, depicting particularly the war effort of the two countries, as well as their industrial and commercial life and something of their scenery.

“I want to try to convey something of the size of Australia,” Mr Jurgens said. ‘‘The film will also deal witl% the Navy, the Army, and Air Force, major industries, and also, to some extent, with the ordinary life of the people. It is intended to be a record of modern Australia. “After about two months there, I intend to come to New Zealand' and make a similar picture of the Dominion. It will be quite separate from the Australian picture.”