| Hinemoa | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Gaston Méliès |
| Release date(s) | 27 March 1913 (USA) |
| Running time | 2 reels (ca. 24 min.) |
| Country | France/New Zealand |
| Language | silent |
Hinemoa was a silent film made in New Zealand by Gaston Méliès in 1913. It is probably the first feature film produced in New Zealand, although it is doubtful that it ever screened in the country.[1]
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No copy of Hinemoa survives, but the film would have told the story of the legend of Tutanekai and Hinemoa.
In 1912, the Méliès brothers' company Star Film was in some financial strife, as a result of which Gaston Méliès travelled to the South Pacific in search of fashionably exotic locales, people and stories. [2]
Hinemoa was one of five two-reel films screened in New York in 1913, several other films shot by Méliès on the expedition having failed to survive the tropical humidity.