Down on the Farm (1935 film)

Down on the Farm
Directed by	Stewart Pitt
Produced by	Lee Hill
Starring	Ra Hould[1]; (Ronald Sinclair)[2]
Cinematography	Lee Hill
Release date	1935
Running time	6300 ft ; 105 min
Country	New Zealand
Language	English

Down on the Farm is a 1935 New Zealand film. It was New Zealand's first sound feature.^[3]^[4] It is one of four films which lay claim to be the first "New Zealand talkie"; however The Devil's Pit and Hei Tiki had sound added in America, and On the Friendly Road was not released until 1936.

Little footage and no script of the film has survived.

References

New Zealand Film 1912–1996 by Helen Martin & Sam Edwards p45 (1997, Oxford University Press, Auckland) ISBN 019 558336 1

↑ "N.Z. Boy's Lucky Trip". The Advertiser. Adelaide. 4 April 1936. p. 25. Retrieved 12 September 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
↑ New Zealand Film 1912–1996 by Helen Martin & Sam Edwards p47 (1997, Oxford University Press, Auckland) ISBN 019-558336-1
↑ Down on the Farm at Film Archive accessed 12 September 2013
↑ "PICTURES AND PERSONALITIES". The Mercury. Hobart, Tasmania. 15 February 1936. p. 5. Retrieved 12 September 2013 – via National Library of Australia.

External links

Down on the Farm at BFI

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[1] "N.Z. Boy's Lucky Trip". The Advertiser. Adelaide. 4 April 1936. p. 25. Retrieved 12 September 2013 – via National Library of Australia.

[2] New Zealand Film 1912–1996 by Helen Martin & Sam Edwards p47 (1997, Oxford University Press, Auckland) ISBN 019-558336-1

[3] Down on the Farm at Film Archive accessed 12 September 2013

[4] "PICTURES AND PERSONALITIES". The Mercury. Hobart, Tasmania. 15 February 1936. p. 5. Retrieved 12 September 2013 – via National Library of Australia.