The following review, by Allison White" TV writer, Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Australia's daily morning newspaper) may interest.
Further info at:
www.gullivermedia.com.au/bundyweb/bundy.htm
BUNDY THINKS HE (SHE!) CAN
THOMAS the Tank Engine ain't got nothing' on our Bundy. And it you've never heard of him, you're about to.
This little loco huffed and puffed his way from Woodford to north Queensland, retracing his tracks through the sugarcane industry.
Producer of Bundy's Last Great Adventure, Larry Zetlin of Gulliver Media, coordinated the scenic journey across kilometres of unconnected sugarcane tracks.
And it was no holiday. The 52-year-old steam engine dug the wheels in on several occasions and needed more than a kick in the engine to get started again. In Bundaberg it required a visit to the foundry where it was built.
"Once the top managers were no longer involved all the foremen and people on the ground bent over backwards to help us," Zetlin says.
Zetlin uses Bundy to guide viewers through the history Of Queensland's sugarcane industry, including the notorious "black birding" period when Pacific islanders were recruited as cheap labour for the cane farms.
The historical content, combined with stunning high- definition camera work by Craig Lucas forms an intriguing package that has already proven popular with US and Japanese train fanatics who have discovered it on the lnternet.
Zetlin has had to disappoint several would-be tourists wanting to retrace Bundy's path on their next visit Down Under.
"I don't think you could really do it again," Zetlin says.
"It took two years of negotiating with all the different mill owners (to use their tracks). You need special insurance and the Department of Transport has to approve safety issues so it took a lot of time to cross all the T's and dot all the I's."
- Allison White
Courier Mail. TV Guide. Thursday September 20, 2001
