The Wagon and the Star

{{short description|1936 New Zealand film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = The Wagon and the Star

| image = The Wagon and the Star (1936).jpg

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| director = J.J.W. Pollard

| producer = J.J.W. Pollard

| writer = J.J.W. Pollard

| starring = John Peake
Faye Hinchey
William Buchan

| music = Howard Moody

| cinematography = Lee Hill

| editing =

| distributor =

| released = {{Film date|1936}}

| runtime =

| country = New Zealand

| language = English

| budget = £15,000

| gross =

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The Wagon and the Star (or The Waggon and the Star) is a 1936 New Zealand film by producer and director J.J.W. Pollard, who also wrote the screenplay. Only one reel of the film and some out-takes survived and is considered lost film by Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision.{{cite web |title=Aotearoa New Zealand’s first talkies |url=https://www.ngataonga.org.nz/explore-stories/stories/film/aotearoa-new-zealands-first-talkies/ |website=ngataonga.org.nz |access-date=1 April 2024 |language=en-NZ}} The handbuilt camera used was built by Ted Coubray and "confiscated" by Alexander Markey on the set of Hei Tiki.

The Wagon and the Star was the first sound feature film to be made in Southland.{{cite journal |title=At the Theatres |journal=Southland Times |date=15 July 1936 |page=11 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST19360715.2.108.5}} The film included two original songs, for which Pollard wrote the words and a local composer, Howard Moody, the music.{{cite journal |title=Picture Theatres |journal=Evening Star |date=29 August 1936 |page=21 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19360829.2.158}}