Changing Focus

Location:New Guinea; New Zealand / Aotearoa; Samoa; Tahiti
Subject:Documentary
Length:55 minutes
Format:16mm (1980); 1/2-inch VHS
Hue:Color
Year Released:1981
Series:Agenda for a Small Planet
Director:Michael Scott-Smith
Producer:NZNFU
Distributor:TVNZ
Library Code:
Description:Papua New Guinea, a diverse country whose people speak over seven hundred different languages, is considering introducing television. Looks at the use of television in other Pacific Islands -- the Samoas, Tahiti, and Hawai'i -- to see what impact the electronic media has had. New Zealand's contribution to a UN series marking the 1980s as Development Decade.
Record No:290
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