New Zealand National Film Unit presents The Kauri (1978)
Colour 27 mins. 35mm 2,505 ft. New Zealand National Film Unit
THE KAURI
Photography LYNTON DIGGLE
Camera Assistant Mike Rathbone
Grip Bob Curtice
Location Sound VAL FEDEROFF
Sound Mixer BRIAN SHENNAN
Music WILLIAM SOUTHGATE
Song Paul Metsers
Historical Photographs Otamatea Kauri and Pioneer Museum, Alexander Turnbull Library Written,
Directed & Edited by CONON FRASER
Producer DEREK WRIGHT
New Zealand National Film Unit MCMLXXVIII
Film Censor's Certificate No. G1160 (7 July 1978)
The Kauri is one of the great trees of the world. Not much remains of the extensive forests which stood before the boom years of the Kauri timber and Kauri gum industries. The days of gum are all but gone; but there may yet be a future for the giant Kauri tree.