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From left, Caroline Garratt, David Lindsay, Chris Hormann and Lindsay Shelton celebrate 75 years of the Wellington Film Society. They are pictured at the Embassy Theatre, where they have their screenings every Monday. The first stirrings of a film society movement in New Zealand began in the 1930s. In 1933, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin had ones, but due to the looming war they eventually all closed. It wasn’t until 1945 and Gordon Mirams, a film writer (and later Aotearoa’s chief censor), rose to prominence with his book
Speaking Candidly: Films and People in New Zealand, that a public meeting was called to establish the re-born Wellington Film Institute (now society).
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