TOM HEENEY FILM WILL BE SCREENED
WELLINGTON. May IG. Tom Keeney jc to furnish the subject of the latest “stunt” hr the New Zealand Government Publicity Office. Outside the ring, as well as inside. Heeney is to be used to gain attention for the Dominion. The move just made by the Publicity Office is the taking of a series of shots which are to form a 1000 feet film of Tom Heeney’s birthplace. Two cameramen have just completed a visit to Gisborne for the purpose, and the film is now being edited. It will leave New Zealand on the 22nd of this month, and will go straight to New York, where arrangements will be made to release it all over the United States before the coming fight for the world's heavy-weight boxing championship. Scenes about Gisborne, Heeney’s mother and father at their home, and the barn where Heeney learned to fight form sequences in the picture. The whole enterprise was conducted so quietly that residents at Gisborne mistook the cameraman for Americans.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18465, 17 May 1928, Page 5
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