Short film
Pumicelands
1954 · 20 min
A calm, instructional survey of land being broken and sown, more civic record than drama.
- Directed by
- John Feeney
- Genres
- Documentary
- Overview
- This film shows how the Central Plateau of the North Island was transformed into fertile pastureland by the men of the Land Settlement Board and the Lands and Survey Department. Cobalt was imported from Canada and sulphur from Louisiana. Hillsides were burnt off and the soil ploughed, fertilised and sown with seed and phosphate.
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- About
- Work, nature, environment
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
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- Directed by
- John Feeney
- Genres
- Documentary