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A Maori Maid's Love
A Maori Maid's Love (Originally titled The Surveyor's Daughter) is a 1916 Australian silent film directed by Raymond Longford about an interracial romance between a white man and a Māori girl. It is considered a lost film as there are no known copies.
Plot.
Graham, an unhappily married surveyor, goes on a job to New Zealand where he falls in love with a Maori woman. She becomes pregnant and died in childbirth. Graham puts his daughter in the care of Maori
for its British release.
Significance.
The movie is generally agreed to be the first full-length New Zealand feature film.
External links.
- "A Maori Maid's Love" at National Film and Sound Archive