• Release Date: 3 October 1997
• Rating: Not Rated
• Duration: 53 min.
• Country: New Zealand

Summary :FORGOTTEN SILVER is Peter Jackson's loving 'tribute' to fictional New Zealand film pioneer Colin MacKenzie. MacKenzie purportedly invented such techniques as the tracking shot and synchronized sound in the early 1900s, well before anyone else had discovered them. After being overlooked by film historians for decades, the restored version of MacKenzie's lost biblical masterpiece SALOME is now available to audiences for the first time ever. FORGOTTEN SILVER is a well-researched and clever satire that presents moviegoers with a hilarious alternate history of early film. Also included on the U.S. video release is Robert Sarkies' short film SIGNING OFF.

Actors: Harvey Weinstein, Leonard Maltin, Peter Jackson, Sam Neill

Directors: Peter Jackson, Costa Botes

Producers: Sue Rogers

Critics Review

Reviewed By	Brief Review	Grade
www.boxoffice.com	New Zealand film pioneer Colin McKenzie receives his due from two of his countrymen in this documentary, which unearths his ''lost'' 1917 silent film ''Salome'' and shines a light on a remarkable career that saw McKenzie pioneer the use of sound and color in motion pictures years before Hollywood did the same. The only problem is that McKenzie never existed, a ''fact'' that allows co-directors/co-scripters Peter Jackson (''The Frighteners'') and Costa Botes to spoof the whole craze for discovering obscure films and restoring the reputation of neglected filmmakers....more