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PREHISTORIC LIFE IN NEW ZEALAND

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Year
1989
Reference
F96445
Media type
Moving image

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Rights Information
Year
1989
Reference
F96445
Media type
Moving image

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Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Duration
0:23:00
Production company
DMP Films New Zealand
Credits
Narrator: Boris Moiseiwitsch
Technical Advisor: Ian Keyes
Associate: Paul Shadbolt
Director: John Campbell Anderson
Cast: Emma Shepherd
Cast: Helen Arthurs
Cast: Katrina Sutich
Cast: Marie Towers
Cast: Patrick Towers

Intertitle: “This film is a tribute to the work of Joan Wiffen, palaeontologist”

A survey of prehistoric life in NZ, taking in the processes of fossilisation and the stories these fossils reveal about the geography of the country and the life that walked its forests.
The film also focuses on eminent amateur palaeontologist, Joan Wiffen. Wiffen describes the type of life found in inland Hawkes Bay at the Mangahouanga Stream site, an area she and her assistant Joseph McKee have worked for many years.