Barry Thomas with Richard Moore and 93 others.
Barry Thomas' "HEARTLANZ" 50 min. documentary 1987
See the 'Red Neck Gene' in operation in its role in the birth and 'growth' of NZ.
Never seen before also on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW6n6DCNJk8
See the 'Red Neck Gene' in operation in its role in the birth and 'growth' of NZ.
Never seen before also on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW6n6DCNJk8
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Barry Thomas 30
years ago I directed, partly shot, produced and was interviewer in
this.... "HEARTLANZ" 50 min. documentary (fine rough cut only) edited
and co produced by Allan Smith, commissioned by the Dept. of
Conservation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW6n6DCNJk8
My song 'Beating of the HeartlaNZ' - thanks to all the wonderful musicians, Johnathan Besser (co-producer). Additional music Stephen McCurdy.
See Dame Whina Cooper, Barry Crump, Jacques Cousteau, Dr. Gerry McSweeney, Guy Salmon, David Lange, and so, so many others... no thanks to the TV3 peeps who 'acquired' my name without asking.
Thank you Isobel Gabites. Respects to Ken Piddington, NZ Film Archive. Main camera Matthew Pickering additional Kirsty MacDonald
Jackie Clarke Charlotte Yates Stephen Regelous Tim Capper Guy Tichborne Guy Capper Kerry Annett Phill Simmonds, , John Pilley John Smythe, Ross Harris Jeffrey Harris Stuart Porter Stuart Shepherd Gerard Crewdson Matt Palmer Matt Wilson Johnc Williams Phil O'Brien Sue Crockford Sue May Su Keates Marcus Lush Tony Chuah Tony Bartley Tony Mary Barr Liam Barr Jim Barr Rohesia Hamilton Metcalfe Robin Brew Robin Murphy Tom Hunt Tom Bickerdike Tom LaHatte Sam Morrison Sam Pillsbury Sam Mahon Dave Armstrong Dave Brown Dave Gilberd Rowan Saker Toni Renalson Frank Macskasy Don Franks Frankie-Frances Kinraid Stephen Franks Lindsay Rabbitt Les Knight Sean McDonald Ginette McDonald Maia Robin Sean McDonald
My song 'Beating of the HeartlaNZ' - thanks to all the wonderful musicians, Johnathan Besser (co-producer). Additional music Stephen McCurdy.
See Dame Whina Cooper, Barry Crump, Jacques Cousteau, Dr. Gerry McSweeney, Guy Salmon, David Lange, and so, so many others... no thanks to the TV3 peeps who 'acquired' my name without asking.
Thank you Isobel Gabites. Respects to Ken Piddington, NZ Film Archive. Main camera Matthew Pickering additional Kirsty MacDonald
Jackie Clarke Charlotte Yates Stephen Regelous Tim Capper Guy Tichborne Guy Capper Kerry Annett Phill Simmonds, , John Pilley John Smythe, Ross Harris Jeffrey Harris Stuart Porter Stuart Shepherd Gerard Crewdson Matt Palmer Matt Wilson Johnc Williams Phil O'Brien Sue Crockford Sue May Su Keates Marcus Lush Tony Chuah Tony Bartley Tony Mary Barr Liam Barr Jim Barr Rohesia Hamilton Metcalfe Robin Brew Robin Murphy Tom Hunt Tom Bickerdike Tom LaHatte Sam Morrison Sam Pillsbury Sam Mahon Dave Armstrong Dave Brown Dave Gilberd Rowan Saker Toni Renalson Frank Macskasy Don Franks Frankie-Frances Kinraid Stephen Franks Lindsay Rabbitt Les Knight Sean McDonald Ginette McDonald Maia Robin Sean McDonald
Illya T McLellan Did
you meet Jacques Cousteau? Or was that footage edited from elsewhere? I
never thought I'd see a doco with both him and Barry Crump in it.
Interesting the bit about the farmers slowly making peace with DOC. We
are in a place where we need that to happen again with progressive
action around dairy effluent management.
Barry Thomas Thanks
no... I and Allan interviewed him on board Calipso... here in Wellings
harbour... and Barry Crump bought us drinks at the pub at 10am or so in
the morning... yeah it's a great role call IMHO and nice to finally get
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Barry Thomas Dead
right about that repeat/update need... the reason IMHO that no-one has
seen it to date is simply politics... it was beaten out of the public
eye... watch this space! Maybe it would be good to see all of your later
versions - unadulterated by the commissioner Ken Sparks? ie as hour long films? I'd love that.
Ken Sparks Barry - you can watch many of them here but these are the only versions that exist.. https://www.nzonscreen.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93...
was a long-running series where, in each episode, affable presenter Gary McCormick…
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Barry Thomas Ken Sparks Na I meant the environmental series mate... not the one that uplifted my name without credit and permission!
Ken Sparks Oh
right, 'NZ Exposed' was the name of that series - totally hijacked by
TVNZ. The long versions were never kept unfortunately...
Barry Thomas Ken Sparks
That's a real shame esp the way you described to me the impact it had
on you, learning of the environmental issues esp around Auckland and
water. again I am sure the hiding of these works from the public is
nothing less than a Pike River styled cover up... political sweeping
under the carpet...
Illya T McLellan I like that original DOC flag. Thanks for posting, I really didn't know enough about the formation of DOC and the lead up to it.
Barry Thomas thanks
Illya... I think also that the basic story of how NZ was formed, who
did what to the native species, and the role of artists in this telling
of the yarn allwos a different perspective of who is leading things...
which way we need to be going I mean bring in now the notion of dirty
rivers and silly 100% pure and the next outing of the story starts to
look like revolution Innit
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Jeremy Jones Great stuff Barry. BTW I love the raw 2 channel Beta mix. Voice over / vocals channel 1 and music / sfx channel 2.
Barry Thomas No charge amigo 
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Isobel Gabites Frightening seeing so many dead friends in one sitting. So many memories to process. From the lady in pink...
Barry Thomas Isobel
Gabites the inimitable... Thanks so much for your huge work getting all
those shoots, people, interviews together and even though we had
trouble getting an airing then - at least now we can feel some pride in
this outing... 30 years later...
It now needs another generation to make an even stronger case for less business, more nature.
And yes the passed away role call is shudderingly powerful... chilling. Bringing tears!
It now needs another generation to make an even stronger case for less business, more nature.
And yes the passed away role call is shudderingly powerful... chilling. Bringing tears!
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Barry Thomas How does one upload this to U tube?
Jeremy Jones You've obviously digitised video. Create a youtube channel and upload to your channel.
Barry Thomas Doing it... but 50 mins is taking an age!!!
Dhyana Beaumont cut it into eg 15min episodes
Mike Nixon Need to convert it Barry . Put it in Dropbox or online and I can lose the size by importing it into Premiere or Media Encoder .
Barry Thomas woooo it's 95% there!!!
Barry Thomas ok here it is... it is still processing but available and always to be found here... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW6n6DCNJk8&feature=youtu.be
Jon Smyth The idea of cutting it into "episodes" is a good one. That doesn't mean you can't have the full one as well.
Jon Smyth Caters also to all the gen ys and millennials with attention spans of 15secs or less.
Jill Stoker Have viewed on YouTube this evening. Good work 🙂
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Barry Thomas Please
do copy and paste it... save it to a separate stick or hard drive as to
date five people have secretly shared this video and who knows what
they will do with it.
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Warbling J Turpitude MOST
OF ALL i think Mr Thomas ought to be seeking a real way to make some
sort of *rapprochement* between the supposed desire for open borders and
the general worship of the idea of 'native species' at the F & F
level.... so far, there IS none, and the irony thus grows worse by the
day..
Barry Thomas Hey give me a yell the day you make a 50 minute documentary on the origins and future well being of your own Trumpy country.
Mike Nixon trumpy dumpy country
Barry Thomas Warbs... what do you mean F & F level?
Warbling J Turpitude Flora & Fauna level of course !!
Barry Thomas The
idea that 80 or so million years developed a bunch of species separate
from the rest of the planet in many instances does have a certain
emotional pull to effect allowance of that difference.... differences
surely... now that's not to say that it's closed door to all difference
but careful support and protection is a good thing
Barry Thomas Identity
itself is a function or at least the result of the recognition and
nurturing of difference... No-one wants KKK/apartheid/ fascism of course
so tolerance and respect for difference is a good thing... and specific
support for genetically different and vulnerable species is a good
thing especially when our species has had a strong hand in that
vulnerability.
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Bruce Bisset nice
work Barry! for shame it didn't get shown... certainly should now! as
we seem to have gone full circle: then, DoC was newly-created; now, it's
about to be buried. so, what did we learn??
Barry Thomas Precisely
the need to get it out there and listen to the likes of Cousteau,
Bellamy, Whina, Crump, Smither - show them respect. Less Business,
tourism, immigration more environment.
Tony Chuah Tourism has gone into overdrive. 
:(
:(
Tony Chuah Immigration
has had the handbrake pulled. Only a matter of time before it get's
released. Political expediency gives way to revenues and vice versa.
Barry Thomas Please feel free to use any of it for any assistance it can bring to the stupid Ruitaniwha dam debate Bruce Bisset
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Mike Nixon Of the people you mention only Guy Salmon maybe Dr. Gerry McSweeney ? still here in Aotearoa
Barry Thomas Cath Wallace, Michael Smither, Bellamy... I am sure others too
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Mike Nixon Stephen King still doing it in the bush in Northland.
Bruce Bisset yea and meanwhile Michael Tavares gets refused a passport for trying to save a kauri in Auckland. again, what did we learn?
Barry Thomas Bruce Bisset did he really that's fucking absurd...
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Mike Nixon A lot to learn from this, as I said to Mike Joy
a new group COULD BE formed so people like him not taking all the heat
for one, and secondly showing that conservation still has a beating
heart here in NZ.
Bruce Bisset yea well you can peel all the skin off and still have a beating heart. it's called torture.
Mike Nixon cynic Bruce Bisset
Bruce Bisset no, moi?
Bruce Bisset (i
am trying very hard to remain faithful to my life-long doctrine of
peaceful protest. but i've found myself looking up weapons shops online
lately....)
Barry Thomas Yes
it's hard and ... well ... but - I dunno I watch this and I am moved by
the strength and purpose expressed by these great people... they make
me feel I agree that we need to change business, and how destructive it
is on our land, waters, flora and fauna
Barry Thomas Can you send Mike a copy mate
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Mike Nixon yeah Barry Thomas
might be time to dust off those cameras and sound gear for a new docu ,
people talking about their conservation vision for NZ......alternatives
to the current dystopian future we are staring down the barrel of,
those sick fuck gnats with their disasterous vision to double dairy
production, are they fking kidding ?, cabbage patch rebooted ...
properly financed this time ......
Barry Thomas And
or ... here's one of the things (HeartlaNZ) I feel proud to have
accomplished in my life... It needs sharing and throwing up the arse of
the fed farmers, down the throats of the gnats and speed into every pore
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Mike Nixon I'll
see it in full tomorrow, just returned from a 360km 5 hr road trip to
Waipukuru getting a trademe item ... shout out for woodville and
dannevirke
Mike Nixon Yes you are right to be proud of this . Important NZ conservation history.
Barry Thomas Mike Nixon I know of no other that comes close
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Liam Barr Thanks for keying me in Barry, the destruction could bring you to tears.
Barry Thomas Indeed Liam... it does... filming it was seriously painful,,, like witnessing an execution... NW Nelson.
Liam Barr I bet, who can forget the first time they saw a once beautiful range of native forest raped to twigs and dirt, heart wrenching.
Barry Thomas Liam Barr Just look at any ol Dick Frizzell landscape and there you have it... and peeps call that beautiful!!! some people really are living on an 'alternative' planet
Liam Barr So
true Barry, like a scene from Watership Down, IMO NZ blew a unique
opportunity to offer a different proposition but instead of recognising
the error has gone holus bolus even further into the mire, vision can't
be measured by $$$.
Barry Thomas Liam Barr Makes me cry.
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Diana Burns This was great to see Barry, and very nostalgic. Loved seeing all tyhose familiar faces, so young and fresh. Good work.
Barry Thomas It's
been kept in the cupboard for an awfully long time... perhaps time for
the next gen to deliver on its passions for nature versus business.
Barry Thomas ie... repressed
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Annie Wright A reminder ... but how did DOC end up in such a shambles???
Ken Sparks Under-funding and governmental pressure to favour business interests basically.
Barry Thomas And
people with out the balls, vision or basic power perhaps like the last
DG Al Morrison who found himself somewhere between a rock and a minime
budget... you knid of wish he would have foregone his sports car and got
down and dirty versus got a new job as (proven) hatchet man for the
state services commission. http://www.ssc.govt.nz/appt-dc-corporatecentre
Or am I completely off the mark here?
Or am I completely off the mark here?
Warbling J Turpitude So
when does the MAKE NEW ZEALAND GREEN AGAIN tour kick off, hombre? Your
modified tour bus might take its general inspiration from this rig
Tony Chuah Way off track Warbs unless it's all electric. 
:D
:D
Warbling J Turpitude Last
time i looked (from the air) NZ was looking appallingly green.. i
couldn't see anything else but greeeeeen in fact from one end of the
island to another ... Just how much green do you guys need, exactly?
Mike Nixon No.
There is always someone willing to do the dirty work for a price
.Hatchmen and women get knighted, the rest forgotten or demoted .
Barry Thomas Jeeze
warbette... NZ is green but you know... that's lime green and called
grass (which hasn't been or is about to be washed away by the loss of
forest) get with the programme dude... read some historical
environmental depletion fact for once.
Jon Smyth Warbling J Turpitude
we need the green not to be cowshit and slime - if you think this is a
frivolous notion, remind me never to share a "spiralina" smoothie with
you.
Warbling J Turpitude I'm
actually reading a wonderful work right now called *EATING ANIMALS*,
which is as comprehensive a tour of the .erm. faunaculture industry and
scene as you could possibly wish for, and indeed of the moral dimension
behind every bite we take ..Doubtl...See More
Warbling J Turpitude I
should perhaps mention BT that Japan, at least to an 'untrained eye'
(heh heh) like mine, is f**king green as well . Between the big burgs -
whenever i can see past the Joshi Kosei that is - there is such
density and intensity of foliage everywhere you look we might as well
be in the freakin' Amazon, i tell ya
Barry Thomas Warbling J Turpitude My understanding is that 66% of japan is still forested...
Tony Chuah Warbs you must be way urban.
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Deborah Nation I want to wAtch h this. Thanks Barry
Barry Thomas Enjoy, weep, and feel that which all these people care so much about.
Deborah Nation It was superb..and woman in it also
Barry Thomas Deborah Nation Thank you Deborah I know we worked pretty hard to be as fair and inclusive to all
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Barry Thomas "
You are acting with your natural resources like some low grade country
in the third world like Kenya - you are selling your substance" Jacques
Cousteau HeartlaNZ 1987
Warbling J Turpitude well,
that's nifty. You take counsel from a Big Frog in the same year
(more-or-less) you write off their Frogmen as emissaries of evil...
Barry Thomas Warbling J Turpitude
He was brought and or welcomed into NZ to do some filming, he met with
Lange and yet was also met at the airport by the French Defense
attache!!! I suspect Lange et al were happy to use him to smooth the
waters post the Warrior... he was a seriously arrogant celeb.. typically
French I guess.
Warbling J Turpitude Gotta love those smooooothed waters
Warbling J Turpitude Just imagine if we had Smyyyyyyyythed waters !
Wade Doak Barry Thomas i had lunch rave with him in Langes Beehive digs.
Barry Thomas Wade Doak
wow that's amazing Wade... we had a filming date ready for him and he
met with Lange then he disappeared home - so we waited another 6 or so
months till Calypso came into Wellington to get a chance to interview
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Rob Champion Nice Barry, quite apt for today's issues.
Darcy Gladwin thanks Barry ,, i need to get to a secure internet before watching ...
Jon Smyth A 30 year old "fine rough cut" is still better than at least 70% of today's "final cuts".
Barry Thomas Oddly
enough... I care less about time code and grungy old highband washy
colour... the content and tine is the thing that moves one IMHO the rest
is blancmange.
Mike Nixon exactly.
Jon Smyth Was
this digitized off a Highband master or an offline dub? I've only
watched it on a fone but there doesn't seem much wrong to me that half a
day in AfterFX couldnt work some magic on. With all the poisoning of
the environment that vermin like Trump, Turnbull and Gibbs are giving
licence to, a "retrospective' like this is a valuable resource.
Tony Chuah Or, it's a 30 year old sleeper. Now awakened.
Barry Thomas Thanks
chaps... you are right Jon... a couple of days or so pulling original
tapes and or some non time coded ones and a few clean ups ... hmmm to
fund it? maybe CNZ? Film Commission? And yes it was a hiband (standard)
master but all of it was not cut in for some reason.
Bruce Bisset try Maori TV. after all, they run most of the best docos these days, and there's some "touchstones" in there for them
Barry Thomas Jon Smyth
that is an amazing offer Jon... thank you very very much - I am
awaiting a report from the person who did the digtising ofit it at the
Film archive and Dave Keene is also helping to sort out if we may be
able to get a better quality copy esp sound... and then it's a matter of
whether or not the whole lot of source tapes are re-digitised or not?!?
Barry Thomas 'Flawed masterpiece ' keeps ringing in my ears... is still a masterpiece innit
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Sean McDonald Stood
the test of time, a good and interesting watch but doesn't seem we have
learnt much with corporate greed now killing our rivers and waterways
with fertiliser & bovine excrement.
Barry Thomas Sad eh mate? at least we can say - this was my/our beliefs - against that trajectory.
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Jill Stoker Great to see this, Barry. And yes, I fully agree with previous comments re the current state of our waterways. Apt indeed.
Barry Thomas Thanks
Jill - yes and it is timely re the waterways/Dairy onslaught of our
lands... add incursions into the DOC estate, madness around increased
irrigation plundering for stupid farming... so where is Mike Joy Mike Smith when you need them? I know they need films and people like us to take up the reigns.
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David Keene THANKS
FOR POSTING BARRY. Fascinating historic doc, Still, an important
topic. Extraordinary how much of the native forest was, at the time this
film was made already completely gone! I'd be curious to know whether
there has been any regeneration of native trees since that David Lange
interview. Enjoyed seeing your "Hitchcock moments" at 73 minutes!!
David Bassett You got a great line up for the interviews Barry.
Many of these warriors were ahead of their time (or not if we are
brutally honest). Did this ever go to air mate? Yes we are nearing the
end of the era of rampant exploitation. Damn it Baza we were a pa...See More
Barry Thomas Na
mate I think you can count me out of supporting any logging in our fair
lands... I did a small amount of work for the then NZ Dairy board well
before Fontera and in c. 1990 they had onyl 2.3 million milking cows...
now its around tripled. And when I...See More
Mike Nixon Kevin Roberts Lovehearts campaign was mainly about the love of money
Barry Thomas Back
then it was Barrie Manley (MD of Saatchis Wellington - which I called
Itchass and bumlick) who later died on his fourtieth birthday, the day
before his retirement in Melbourne. There is a dog they call embolism.
RIP.
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Kimbra Taylor and they want to start up logging ancient forests again on the West Coast!!
Barry Thomas I
know how feckin does that make one feel... and in part you can say that
because the likes of TVNZ suppressed this film the felling ethic
continued to grow... who's keen to tour it down the coast then?
Mike Nixon Hard
to know what to say but the words "harvesting" like its a crop of corn
is bs. As for sustainable, becoming a dirty word now, so you cut down
forest which has taken hundreds of years old, sequestering carbon, and
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Mike Nixon My friend Rick Barber knows Tony well.
Barry Thomas It
would be great to see who is still alive on the Coast now? I know the
publican at the famed Mahinapua pub has passed on and gone to the great
cheese factory in the heavens... When I met him he showed me out the
back - into his bedroom for some reason... which had a 303 rifle on his
bed!!!
Barry Thomas Howard Taylor Annie Goldson Anne Salmond Ann Taylor Juliet Moss Waka Basil Attewell Brian Shennan Brian Kassler Mark Cubey Mark Harvey Neville Clark Arthur Baysting Nick Bollinger Robina Smythe John Smythe Sam Morrison Sam Pillsbury John Hawkins John Hoyle John Hurrell Jeff Hurrell Charlie Bleakley
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Barry Thomas Ken
Piddington the first director general of the Dept. of Conservation
simply said to us... I want a new version of the famed NFU film "This is
New Zealand"... and in our own way I hope we have delivered on this...
not a pR Tourist piece of pap - an honest robust and emotionally charged
testament of people who care for and still act as kaitiaki to our
nature.
Barry Thomas I am sorry to say we have not been able and should have people like Wade Doak in this film... maybe a new raod trip
Barry Thomas Bruce
Mahalski Nautilus Creative Space Pātaka Te Radar Te Ururoa Flavell Rima
Te Wiata Maryan Street Te Papa City Gallery Wellington Dept Department
of Conservation Environment and Conservation Organisations of NZ (ECO)
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Gerard Smyth cool Barry -the sentiment more important than ever.
Barry Thomas Thanks
Gerard - another LLLOOONNNGGG production that I am sure you are now -
almost - used to? Do you think there is the need/desire for a redux?
and or un updating... current versions?
Gerard Smyth Absolutely
Barry. -so many of the characters remain significant spokespeople. Be
great to see a contemporary grade-maybe MTV could be spoken to?
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Deborah Nation 
🍃So you invented the saddleback? Is that the gist?
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I. Hear. Your. Legitimate A n g e r Barry . Reparation time. But unless they have power how can they offer it...next generation going forward
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🍃So you invented the saddleback? Is that the gist?🐦I. Hear. Your. Legitimate A n g e r Barry . Reparation time. But unless they have power how can they offer it...next generation going forward
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Barry Thomas Saddleback?
Barry Thomas And
I suspect what you may well read as my anger might in part be toward
bureaucrats who may well also not have power as you suggest but they
also sit there getting their fat little pay checks and never stand up
and fight for things like budgets... when did you last see bureaucrats
on the streets?
Ken Sparks Just before they walked into a large office building (you did ask).
Barry Thomas Ken Sparks very ggod... you mean before them and their suits merged into the grey concrete of their souls
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Barry Thomas OK 3 days on and this is how it is:
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Barry Thomas I
know this is partly my fault and or responsibility but I will defend to
the death thaty this work was c. 85% purposely shelved by the media and
bureaucratic powers who collectively did not want it value out in the
world, affecting the market's domination of the natural world... Now
look what we have left GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Warbling J Turpitude I'm voting for BT as Minister for The Proper Understanding of Nature ! YEAH!
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Kimbra Taylor I feel all those things along side you.
Kemi Soundwater Fantastic watch, but sadly 30 years old and still topical
Barry Thomas How can this be... ??? these issues should be front and centre along with homelessness etc in every election
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Barry Thomas Dave
Gibson of the NZ Film Commission is too busy to watch this film
bwaahahaha but his lowly assistant orders me to communicate with them
via a pigeon holed application only... one wonders how this can possibly
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Warbling J Turpitude Why not use Nature's Own Delivery Channel, and fly your doco to their door via one furiously-flapping pigeon?
Don Miller The falcons killed them all....
Barry Thomas Only
self serving neolib pigeons allowed sorry... and must be under the age
of wisdom to attend their 'highly prestigious' producer kindergarten lol
it's where Dave Gibson shares his 'brilliance' on how to train the
handful of the indoctrinaires how to fly nice and straight like da crows
innit.
Warbling J Turpitude Hmmm..
i like the feel of this paragraph, and especially the nice spin that is
"INdoctrinaires'. We wondered however if you might seek to unpack for
us the possible meaning of "self-serving neolib pigeons" Simply put, I
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Barry Thomas People
like you would simply not believe the likes of Cousteau, Attenborough?
Whina? because they are ancient wisdoms? You don't make sense.
Barry Thomas The pigeons are in the pay of the corporates
Don Miller Barry Thomas The pidgeons are in the bellies of the falcons...
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Barry Thomas Thanks
to Nga Taonga Sound and vision (Film archive) esp Tom Ackroyd for
finding and digitisng the above copy. Of course without them there would
be no film and their footage included is priceless.
Mike Nixon ridiculous these emoticons but yeah, credit where its due.
Barry Thomas On
the other hand of course anti credit where that's due too eh Mike... I
will amass a litany of people who have directly disabled this work from
entering our art icon status... hmmm now let me think...
Mike Nixon Your
sounding like Derek now Barry . Be careful as no one will trust you to
speak their mind if they don't know whether they will be out on the bad
list . I'm not a great believer in good vs bad myself , binary opposites
. It's a very judgemental position to take . Situations and people a
lot more complex . So let it go bro and move on .
Barry Thomas Mike Nixon
I appreciate that - the problem is all this wealth of material and
people and history and the powers that be continue to control the access
to the people via th elikes of fed farmers, the media and agencies like
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Mike Nixon Yes I dont understand what is corporate about it, it says more about TVNZ really.
Deborah Nation Mike Nixon got your attention tho aye. ...amongst all these blokes in gumboots.. which I rely on to of course. ( :
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Barry Thomas Thank you David Keene
who had some tape he left me to give to the NZ Film Archive which gave
me the opportunity to re-open the door to discussing why it had taken
many years to be able to play HeartlaNZ which led to Tom finding a
'better' copy as seen above... a long tangled and somewhat scarred
pathway not without pain.
David Keene Hi Barry. Thanks for passing on the tapes and I'm glad it led to this being available.
Barry Thomas BTW
Tom has said that they have not done anything to the sound re
compression/ muddying etc as discussed... it may well be due to the auto
settings when one uploads and or because it was originally hiband I
suspect maybe the sound was several generation old rather rep[laced to
make this 'fine' rough cut.
David Keene Yup,
I'm sure the Archive technicians would not have done anything at all to
the audio beyond pushing the copy button. It is likely that each
successive copy between formats (analogue/compressed/limited/digital,
etc, adds sonic artifacts, incrementally degrading the sound.
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Barry Thomas "almost
everyone in industrialised nations is doing [it]: trashing the living
world through pointless consumption." George Mobiot
http://www.monbiot.com/2012/12/10/the-gift-of-death/...
http://www.monbiot.com/2012/12/10/the-gift-of-death/...
Pathological
consumption has become so normalised that we scarcely notice it. By
George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 11th December 2012 There’s
nothing they need, nothing they don’t own already, …
monbiot.com
Gaelle Weissberg so
soso so so homesick for the smell of native NZ bush , I can assure
you the destruction of our living planet is far more complete in Europe
than Zild ! Must all fight to protect what's left ! Thanks for this
archive Barry !
Barry Thomas That's my pleasure Gaelle - Good to see Cousteau's words still ringing around the planet eh.
