Manawatu Home Movies
- Access
- Open
- Description
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Various scenes, occasions and places in Palmerston North and Manawatu. Includes: Tangimoana, Foxton and other beaches, and activities; Palmerston North parades - various; Terrace End School; Esplanade; Funeral at Marae; Manawatu Caravan Club activities; Flood; Segment on the 1940 Centennial Exhibition, Wellington. (Colour)
Also includes two short movies: ‘Papaeioa. Palmerston North’. Reenactment of Charles Hartley arrival in Manawatu 1846 and Palmerston North of 1959. (Including hospital; Terrace End School; Massey University; The Square; Railway (both Main Street and new station in Tremaine Avenue) and trains along Main Street; airport; sporting activities, Terrace End cemetery); 'Industries Fair’. Filmed by Guy Burgess.
Length: 1 hour, 49 minutes. Black and white/ colour. Some sound. Poor quality in places.
Identification
- Object type
- Moving image
- Identifier
- PNCC 00030:6:7
- Location
- Ian Matheson City Archives
- Date
- circa 1945 to circa 1960
- Finding aid
- PNCC Archives > Video Tapes (PNCC 00030)
- Related series (1)
- Video Tapes (PNCC 00030)
- Related created by (1)
- Palmerston North City Council