In 1896 first movie was showed in New Zealand. It is a opera house of Oakland. Movie in color was showed in 1911. First movie's direction is Alfred Whitehouse.The oldest movie in existent is The Departure of the Second Contingent for the Boer War by him in 1900. In 1993 The Piano was made by Jane Campion received Oscar and movie in New Zealand was admitted all over the world.
On the other hand in Japan first movie was in Kobe same time with New Zealand. Then Japanese was using a small machine called kinetoscope. It was different from the present huge screen. Only one could watch a movie at once by this machine. So, New Zealand's movies were making progress than Japan's movies.
