This is a 16mm celluloid movie film: "THE PLAN".

Made in NZ by the NZ National Film Unit. Eastmancolor film. Includes all credits; appears complete. Date uncertain.

Running time = 25 minutes approx.

Good condition movie film with optical sound track. Due to the Eastmancolor process, most colours have shifted and the remaining hues are predominantly pink and red and black.

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The film deals with the development of the Taupo basin area. Much of the watershed of Lake Taupo is a beech and podocarp forest with associate understory ferns being Blechnum filiforme, Asplenium flaccidum, Doodia media, Hymenophyllum demissum, Microsorum pustulatum and Microsorum scandens, and some prominent associate shrubs being Olearia ranii nd Alseuosmia quercifolia.

Native faunal species in the lake include northern koura or crayfish (Paranephrops planifrons) and kokopu or whitebait (Galaxias species). The lake is noted for stocks of brown trout (Salmo trutta) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), introduced from Europe and California respectively in the late nineteenth century. There has also been a subsequent introduction of smelt (Retropinnidae species) as a food for the trout.

Tourism is a major component of Taupo's commercial sector, and the city attracts over 2 million visitors per year. The busiest time for the industry is the high summer season around Christmas and New Year.

The lake area has a temperate climate. Taupo hosts the Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge, a cycling tour around the lake which can take anywhere between four and ten hours. Hundreds of volunteers from the Taupo township are involved in the event. Skydiving is a popular local sport and tourist attraction. Taupo also hosts the Kellogg's Iron Man event.

The film poses the question: what will happen to the forests, the mountains, and the lake?

Very good condition. This film will project well with any 16mm projector. Film is supplied on a blue plastic reel and in a blue plastic storage can.

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