Costa Botes & Peter Jackson (1995). "Forgotten Silver"
https://www.youtube.com/embed/H7_qDDjRyXQ
About: "The myth of Colin McKenzie took television viewers by storm, prompting scores of letters from people enraptured by the discovery of these early New Zealand film gems. When Forgotten silver was exposed as a hoax the following day, those who had been taken in were either amused or distressed by Jackson and Botes' skilful deception..." (Anon, 24 May 2024). https://nzhistory.govt.nz/page/forgotten-silver-film-hoax-screened Context: Costa Botes (2000). 'Behind the Bull' https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/behind-the-bull-2000 https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/3p19/pearse-richard-william More: The film leverages patriotic sentiment about Richard Pearse's early aviation experiments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pearse to give the deception credence. Scene: Fakery through invoking the 'zoom and enhance' trope, commonly used in crime shows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7_qDDjRyXQ&t=80s Duncan Robson's Let's Enhance (2009) 'supercut' cut-up for example, parodies the convention http://newpractices.co.uk/SubjectivistEpistemology/#LhF_56SxrGk Bibliography: 'Forgotten silver film hoax screened', URL: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/page/forgotten-silver-film-hoax-screened, (Manatū Taonga — NZ Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 24 May 2024. Botes, C., & Jackson, P. (1995). 'Forgotten Silver' P. Jackson; Television New Zealand. https://nzhistory.govt.nz/page/forgotten-silver-film-hoax-screened https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtGhzNtttds&t=437s David Bordwell 'Film Forgery: Observations on Film Art' https://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2007/03/25/film-forgery/ Giombini, L. (2021). 'Music from beyond (or how to deal with a musical forgery)'. Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.54103/2240-9599/20100 https://scispace.com/pdf/music-from-beyond-or-how-to-deal-with-a-musical-forgery-3k01ij6oa9.pdf Robson, D. (2009). "Let's Enhance". ACMI Australian Centre for the Moving Image. Available at: https://www.acmi.net.au/works/113842--lets-enhance/ [Accessed 24 Jan. 2026]. MOTAT. (2020). 'Richard Pearse and his remarkable hybrid plane'. MOTAT | New Zealand Museum of Transport and Technology. https://www.motat.nz/collections-and-stories/stories/The-Richard-Pearse-Utility-Plane/
