PERSONAL RECORD. PORTER, R. [LOCAL SCENES HARPER RIVER]

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Year
1965
Reference
F13561
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1965
Reference
F13561
Media type
Moving image
Categories
Amateur
Duration
0:38:19

Southern Alps, people skating on a frozen lake, high mountain scenery, sheep in tussock, farm houses, kea in a cage, a fawn, a Canada goose, a pet fawn and “Shamus” the chamois, pheasants, roses, more mountain scenery. Shots of peaks oft he Southern Alps, people skating on a frozen lake, high mountain scenery, sheep in tussock, farm houses, kea in a cage, a fawn, a Canada goose, pheasants, roses, a top dressing aircraft taking off at Glenthorne, a tractor and a truck, carrying fertilizer, fording a river, and a sunset.
Shots of a car and boat. A man is posing with fish next to a boat. Scenes, of Lake Coleridge. People fishing from boat (one couple could be Admiral and Mrs Tyree), eroded hills, choppy waters, pulling in fish. People cooking and eating their catch. Crowd with light aircraft, water skiing on lake. “Airwork ‘ light helicopter taking off and landing (tramper lying on outside frame). Hunter posing with shot deer. Views of a river (Harper) valley . Canada Geese drive using Landrovers and light aircraft Man posing with shot Canada goose. Land rover crossing the Wilberforce River. Group of men with pile of dead Canada geese. Flight over the Southern Alps from the Harper River to Mt Cook and glaciers then back to Rakaia River headwaters,. Aerial shots of homesteads of Glenfalloch, Manuka Point, Double Hill, and Algidus high country sheep stations.