The Sign Singers feature on Stars on Sunday, Performing ‘Born Free’. Filmed on March 3, 1982 at Highwic, Newmarket, Auckland. Four songs were filmed that day at the same time, ‘Oh What a Beautiful Day’, ‘Harmony’, ‘Born Free’ and ‘Sailing’. This song screened on Stars on Sunday, TVNZ on May 9 1982. It was also repeated a year later on October 9, 1983. ‘Born Free’ was a popular song written for the Oscar winning film ‘Born Free’ in 1966, about a real-life couple who raise a pair of lion cubs to adulthood, to release them back to the wild.
Sign Singers: ‘Born Free’
1982 •
- Storytelling/Performances
- TV/Media
The Sign Singers perform the song 'Born Free' broadcast on Stars on Sunday in June 1982.
Taonga source:
Dulcie McKie
Produced by:
Stars on Sunday, Television New Zealand
Original format:
VHS
Reference number:
SignDNA – Deaf National Archive New Zealand, DM06-04-SP82
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