Before The Lord of the Rings Peter Jackson made Forgotten Silver – a documentary about long-lost New Zealand film-maker Colin Mackenzie. Unlike Peter Jackson’s Beatles and war documentaries, when Forgotten Silver aired in New Zealand in 1995, it triggered a national outrage. This video essay looks at this key part of Peter Jackson’s filmography from before The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, King Kong and Bad Taste, that has mostly been forgotten.

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Behind the Bull – NZ on Screen - https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/behi...
Ian Nathan, ‘Peter Jackson: A Film-maker's Journey’, 2006
Scott Wilson, ‘Aching to Believe: The Heresy of Forgotten Silver,’ in C.J. Miller (Ed.), Too Bold for the Box Office: The Mockumentary from Big Screen to Small, 2012
Forgotten Silver remembered 20 years on, Stuff.co.nz article by James Croot, 28 Oct 2015
Television: Throwback Thursday – How Peter Jackson’s TV Special Pranked All of Middle Earth, Spinoff.co.nz article by Aaron Yap
Faking it: Mock-documentary and the subversion of factuality, by Jane Roscoe and Craig Hight, 2018
Country Calendar Spoofs - https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/coun...

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