Māori Scenes

Maori Scenes
Based on	Documentary
Cinematography	Joseph Perry
Production company	Limelight Department
Release date	1898 (1898)
Country	New Zealand
Language	Silent

Maori Scenes were 1898 New Zealand silent documentary films made by Joseph Perry of the Limelight Department of the Salvation Army in Australia.[1] Two or three films were shot about 2 December 1898, just after New Zealand's first film.[2][3]

The earliest films are from the first of December 1898, the opening of the Auckland Industrial and Mining Exhibition,[4] and Boxing Day that year, Uhlan winning the Auckland Cup at Ellerslie Racecourse.[5]

References

1. "Maori Scenes, New Zealand". issuu. No. 97–98. Cinema Papers. April 1994. p. 41. Retrieved 7 August 2022.
2. "Maori Scenes". The War Cry. 10 December 1898. p. 9.
3. "The Salvation Army's use for the Camera, Kinematograph, and Lantern". Trove. Australasian Photographic Review. 21 January 1899. p. 2.
4. "First movie shot in New Zealand". New Zealand History. New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage. 1 December 1898.
5. Sowry, Clive (1993). "Whitehouse, Alfred Henry". Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Retrieved 13 October 2020.