Reposted from NFPF facebook page
"Here are two comedies and a cartoon that we brought back from New Zealand: HIS NEGLECTED WIFE (1919), starring the exuberant Leatrice Joy; OH BOY! (1927), featuring the wild antics of the McDougall Alley Kids; and the Bray Studio cartoon COL. HEEZA LIAR'S “FORBIDDEN FRUIT” (1923), including a live appearance by animator Walter Lantz. You can watch them at http://tinyurl.com/nzfilms" target="_blank" target="_blank. Enjoy!"
http://tinyurl.com/nzfilms
A few more NZ Repat films now online
Re: A few more NZ Repat films now online
Thanks for posting this. I looked at the site yesterday and there was nothing new.
I took a look at the Heeza Liar cartoon and thought it was dull. Of course the discussion focused on the evil nature of the film makers not having a 21st century set of sensibilities, which is why they lost all their talented employees. The fact that those talented employees would go on to do exactly the same sort of racist cartoons for the next twenty or thirty years is ignored.
Bob
I took a look at the Heeza Liar cartoon and thought it was dull. Of course the discussion focused on the evil nature of the film makers not having a 21st century set of sensibilities, which is why they lost all their talented employees. The fact that those talented employees would go on to do exactly the same sort of racist cartoons for the next twenty or thirty years is ignored.
Bob
The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.
— L.P. Hartley
— L.P. Hartley