Tag: baby contests

Embracing your inner show-mom

Late notice but tonight at the Film Archive, cnr of Tarana­ki and Ghuznee Streets, at 6:30pm the Friends of the Film Archive present a spe­cial insight into baby con­tests, beauty com­pet­i­tions and screen tests from yes­teryear. It’s free. It’s hil­ari­ous. Here’s the blurb:

“Contest Films from the silent era and the 1930s are presen­ted afresh. Strug­gling early New Zea­l­and film makers made a liv­ing with their cam­er­as put­ting the faces of the young, beau­ti­ful and tal­en­ted on the screen to be judged by pop­u­lar vote.”