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Interview with Prime Minister Keith Holyoake, 1963
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Television first featured in New Zealand election campaigns in 1963 when the three main parties (National, Labour and Social Credit) shared two hours of pre-recorded broadcasts on the four regional channels. This National Party broadcast, in which Prime Minister Keith Holyoake is interviewed by Auckland University's Professor John Reid, typifies the formal, staid tone of most party political advertising in the early years of television. One critic described the on-air performance of the country's politicians as similar to 'semi-animated waxworks'.
Ref: F10936. Prime Minister Holyoake Interview, Pacific Films, 1963. Courtesy of Pacific Films. Sourced from the New Zealand Film Archive/Nga Kaitiaki o Nga Taonga Whitiahua.
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