Forgotten Silver (1995)

Long before Peter Jackson wowed the world with his "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and his pet remake of "King Kong", he made this short movie for New Zealand television, back in the days when he was still shooting splatter horror.  It tells the sad story of Kiwi film pioneer Colin McKenzie, who amongst other achievements invented the tracking shot, the close-up, sound movies, and colour photography; he even filmed the first flight some nine months before the Wright Brothers.  The only trouble with this story which is told with a completely straight face and supported by talking heads such as Harvey Weinstein, Leonard Maltin, and Sam Neill, is that it is all a figment of Jackson's warped imagination.  This mockumentary also includes the finding of McKenzie's lost hidden city in the jungle and the discovering of the reels of his major saga, "Salome".  That film was finally edited and restored by the New Zealand Film Commission and screened to an appreciative audience some sixty years later.  Not one word of this is true, but the tale of this genius' lost life and talent is so engaging, that the viewer really wants to believe the fabrications on display.