Forgotten silver

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when director peter jackson discovers a cache of ancient nitrate in a neighbor's shed, he realizes he has found 'the most extraordinary collection of films i had never heard of. imagine if 'citizen kane' suddenly came out of the blue!'
so begins this insidiously funny, yet utterly believable 'mockumentary' which uncovers the life of one colin mckenzie, film pioneer and inventor extaordinaire in early 1900s new zealand. the young genuis mckenzie had invented motion picture cameras, color film, sync sound, tracking shots, and many other impotant cinematic techniques - before the likes of d.w. griffith and the lumiere brothers. his biblical epic 'salome', for which he recreated ancient jerusalem in the new zealand jungle, is now recognized as a masterpiece of early cinema.