The missing films of early NZ director Robert Steele
Publisher |
Radio New Zealand
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
Arts
Publication Date |
Sep 27, 2020
Episode Duration |
00:12:58
A Mild Case of Murder, The Wife Who Knew and Happy Honeymoon - A Near Tragedy - three titles of, we're told, early New Zealand films by enthusiastic amateur director Robert Steele are at the centre of a real life mystery. Nga Taonga Sound & Vision is putting out a nationwide appeal in the hope of tracking down the missing films, or at least finding out more about them. All this comes from a donation of photos from Geoff Bertram in February this year including promotional shots of several film productions that none of their staff had ever heard of. What is known is that Robert Steele ran a photographic studio, was a keen member of repertory theatre and made several commercials and industrial short films on both sides of the Tasman. He also - in 1931 - made a film called Shattered, described as "the first Auckland-produced photo-play with sound". Lynn Freeman talks to Geoff Bertram about Steele - was he a real-life version of Forgotten Silver's Colin McKenzie?

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