Day 2: Peace Out! (The 1960s)
Activity 1: The Dawn of Television
In the 1960s there was a great deal of change in
New Zealand. Technology was evolving and the
television was introduced for the first time into
New Zealand homes in the 1960s. Popular
C’mon. Television remains popular to this day.
What is your favourite television show at the moment?
On your blog tell us about your favourite television show.
What is it about? Who are the main characters?
What channel is it on?
My Favourite Television Show:
At the moment my favourite television show is:
Teen Wolf. Teen Wolf is about a group of teens
who live in a very historic place called Beacon
Hills. This place has lots of history that can be
very unpredictable and in fact animal attacks
have been occurring in this place for quite a
while now. Two best friends, whom one is Stiles
Stilinski the son of the Beacon Hills Sheriff and the
other Scott McCall a son of a Nurse at the Beacon
Hills Hospital. Both of these boys have heard news
about the animal attacks and are very curious of
where to find the missing body among Beacon Hills.
This Show is also on the Channel 9 despite the
fact that this Show has ended at Season 6 this year.
Activity 2: Rock ‘n’ Roll
Famous bands also started travelling across the
world and in 1964, New Zealand hosted, arguably
the most popular band of the time, The Beatles.
People were very excited to see The Beatles, and
the hype around the band was known as Beatle-
Mania (similar to the modern-day Bieber-Fever)!
Read about their tour of New Zealand below, and
then post three interesting facts about The Beatles
Tour on your blog.
The Beatles' first stop in New Zealand was Wellington.
Seven thousand screaming fans – nearly all young
women – waited as the band touched down on 21
June 1964. One girl badly hurt her leg trying to climb
a wire fence, and two others were forced through the
fence because of pushing from behind.
A team of 30 police officers, some in plain clothes, was
on hand. Bill Brien, in charge of the operation, later said
that:
“We underestimated the whole thing badly.
The crowd was so big we had to … keep all
the people behind a wire fence. At one stage
it looked like the fence would collapse, which
would have been a disaster.”
As the band stepped off the plane, the shrieks of fans
drowned out the noise of the engines. Te Pataka concert
party performed a haka, before doing a hongi (pressing
noses) and presenting the band members with tiki.
From the back of a Holden utility, The Beatles waved to
fans who lined the roads from the airport to town. The
crowds outside their hotel, the St George, were so large
that The Beatles had to be taken in secretly through the
bottle shop entrance of the hotel. Management rushed
the band up to the third floor balcony so fans could see
them and not crash the hotel.
It was mayhem. 'Girls were screaming uncontrollably,
quite out of their tree,' people remembered. Police used
dogs to clear crowds from verandahs and other vantage
points. Teenagers pushed over and damaged two police
motorbikes; there was so much pushing that one of The
Beatles’ cars was shunted backwards, even with the
handbrake on.
Fans trekked back to The Beatles' hotel after the concert.
The band was stuck inside as crowds gathered outside.
Some kept up a late-night vigil on the hill behind the hotel.
Others tried to get round the strict security; four girls strolled
onto the sixth floor into the arms of Ringo Starr. His response
was, ‘Now girls, no nonsense or else I’ll leave.’
Away from all the fuss, two of the band members took the
chance to catch up with family. Police whisked John Lennon
away to Levin to meet his second cousins, while Ringo Starr
(formerly Starkey) met a group of Starkeys from the Wellington
suburb of Karori.
Retrieved from https://nzhistory.govt.nz/culture/beatles
Three Facts about The Beatles Tour:
> A Te Pataka Concert introduced The Beatles with a
performance of Kapa Haka before a hongi with them.
> Fans were so over excited about the coming of the
Beatles that a few of them had injuries and were
pushing each other to the fact that the wired fence
could collapse.
> Outside their hotel it was full of huge crowds that they
had to be secretly taken into the hotel before being
overtaken by their fans.
Hi Mikaela,
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad that you're participating in the Summer Learning Journey!
You did a good job describing your favourite TV program. I watched television in the 1960's because I was born in 1956. There certainly weren't any shows like 'Teen Wolf' when I was growing up! It sounds interesting, although somewhat creepy!
And wasn't it amazing that a group of guys could be so popular that they had to be protected by the police from the people who loved them a little too much?!
I didn't know that a haka by New Zealanders had been prepared to welcome the Beatles. Thank you for highlighting that information.
I hope you'll continue your good work and enjoy each day's activities in this blogging program. Well done!
Leslie