PERSONAL RECORD. HANSEN, G & N. [CENNTENIAL EXHIBITION, PROCESSION, FLOODS & WASHOUTS IN GREY REGION]

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Year
1940
Reference
F24026
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1940
Reference
F24026
Media type
Moving image
Item unavailable online
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Amateur
Duration
0:18:00
Credits
Photography: George Hansen
Photography: Nan Hansen

00:46:36 [B&W] Scenes at Centennial Exhibition, Wellington. People ride on miniature train. Centennial exhibition buildings. Statue of Kupe. Lyall Bay beach. People going down slide. Big dipper. Roller Coaster. Sailor puppet. People in fairground cars, dodgems. Ferris Wheel. Interior shot of puppets climbing up wall. People riding on train. People in ‘dodgem’ boats. [COLOUR] Centennial Exhibition buildings and grounds. Kupe Statue. Buildings lit up at night.

(B&W) Scenes of procession, Tainui St, Greymouth. Pipe bands, boys in [Brigade] uniform, various floats including ‘train’, horse and carts, Maori canoe. Hilda in back yard of house. Road from Marsden to Boddytown. Scenes of flooded streets, Greymouth, cars driving through water, man riding bicycle through flood waters, children playing in flood waters. Shots of slip at Kaimato on railway line. Steam train traveling on track. Various shots of slips on Otira road. Men bicycling down road. Workers clearing railway line. Grader moving dirt to clear road. Grader moving large boulder [Nellies Creek]. Men pose beside large boulder.