NZ On Screen Tuesday Spotlight: Come on to New Zealand (1980)

Made as long-haul air travel was opening New Zealand to international tourists, this 1980 NFU promotional film targets the US market with a mix of Māori culture, pastoral scenery, and some eyebrow-raising enticements — including skinny dipping and the reassurance that visitors “can walk without being molested.” Narrated by Bob Parker and edited by Annie Collins in an early career credit, the film predates Tourism New Zealand’s own controversies around destination marketing by decades.