Weekly slot for local documentaries.
Teine Samoa: A Girl of Samoa
Nineteen-year-old Situe, an educated village girl, is faced with the choice of remaining with her family in the small village of Matautu, Western Samoa, or seeking a new life, perhaps in Apia or New Zealand.
Director JOHN ANDERSON
Producer DAVE GIBSON
GIBSON FILMS/NZ FILM COMMISSION/TELEVISION NEW ZEALAND
Not so Long Ago
A series of six programmes with Les Cleveland looking into the social history of our recent past with a selection of film from the 1950s and 60s.
2) Remember when a new house cost £5000? When you could cross the Tasman by flying boat? When steam was king?
Producer TONY TROTTER
Publish and Be Damned
A series of three programmes asking what news we get, what news we don't get, and why.
1) Official Secret: A journalist receives confidential official documents which show that the Government and a foreign company are secretly negotiating to build a huge industrial plant in a national park. What happens to the documents? Are they published? Is the story told? What is the media response? Freelance journalist Jim Hopkins presents this imaginary situation to a group of editors, producers and jour-nalists. The participants are Russell Gault (editor, "NZ "Truth"), Mike Robson (editor, "Evening Post"). Mike Forbes (editor. "Christchurch Star"), Pat Booth (former deputy editor, "Auckland Star"), David Beatson (director of news and current affairs, Radio Pacific), Bruce Crossan (controller of news and current affairs, Television New Zealand), and Dan Stevenson (lawyer)
Producer STEPHEN LA HOOD
2) Sensationalism: An influential politician publicly clashes with a Māori activist. During the argument the politician makes an abusive, racist remark. He then goes into an apparently successful meeting called to discuss Maori grievances. Is his abusive remark crucial? Should it be published? Is it sensationalism to put it in the story? Freelance journalist Jim Hopkins presents this imaginary situation to a group of editors, producers and journalists in the studio.
Producer STEPHEN LA HOOD
3) Privacy: Supplied documents implicate a cabinet minister in an affair with a married woman. The documents show that the romance has several disturbing implications which involve the minister's function. Is it a matter of public interest? Should it be revealed? Whose privacy should be safeguarded? Freelance journalist Jim Hopkins presents this imaginery situation to a group of editors, producers. and journalists in the studio.
Producer STEPHEN LA HOOD
THE YEAR OF THE CHIP
A two-part series looking at the impact of micro-technology in New Zealand.
(1) Computers are getting smaller and smaller, but their impact is ever-increasing. The micro-computer is here. Free-lance journalist Jim Hopkins takes the lid off the silicon chip and looks at some of the dramatic uses of the micro-computer in New Zealand today.
(2) It is predicted that the 1980s will be the decade of the chip. Every aspect of work and leisure will be affected. What plans are being made? What problems will there be? What benefits can we expect? Who'll have control? Jim Bolger, Kerry Burke, Rob Campbell and others in the field discuss the issues with Jim Hopkins.
Producer STEPHEN LA HOOD
SOMETHING VENTURED
Ian Taylor in a four-part adventure series he is more than glad to have behind him as is his insurance company.
1) Canoeing in the Mt Aspiring National Park and deerhunting in the Nelson Forest Park
Producer MICHAEL STEADMAN
Director IAN TAYLOR
TELEVISION NEW ZEALAND/MOUNTAIN SAFETY COUNCIL
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