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ROXBURGH HYDRO PROJECT

Rights Information
Year
1954
Reference
F2439
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1954
Reference
F2439
Media type
Moving image
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Actuality

Painted title ‘Roxburgh Dam Project’. Group of men enter NAC domestic aircraft [Harewood Airport, Christchurch]. Plane takes off. Aerial views of landscape. Interior of plane. Men exit plane. Cars drive over bridge [Kawarau Gorge suspension bridge]. Views of landscape alongside road, houses and gardens. Group of men at lookout, Roxburgh Dam, views of dam under construction.

People gathered around airplane. Aircraft takes off. Aerial views of landscape. Passenger rests in plane. Plane lands at [Harewood Airport, Christchurch]. Painted title ‘The End’.