PERSONAL RECORD. THORN, F. [AXEMANS CARNIVAL, WAIUTA, SNOWFALL WAIUTA, HUNTERS, TROUT FISHING & HORSE RIDING]

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Year
1936
Reference
F521
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1936
Reference
F521
Media type
Moving image
Item unavailable online
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Amateur
Duration
0:14:09

People exiting car.
Wood chopping competition in the old gold mining town of Waiuta on the West Coast. Spectators watch on. The ‘Tree Feeling’ event.
Man chasing dog in field. Thirty odd people race across field in pursuit of the dog.
Very drunken man, his clothing array, walking down Waiuta street.
Young man trying to cycle along street in deep snow. Man places his two young daughters onto a very small slay, tows them up the street.
Wood chopping. Man announcing into a microphone, close up. Running race. Boy at coconut shy. Racing, wood chopping. Women racing in dresses. Pillow fights on a log.
COL. - Two young hunters standing beside a deer, shotgun in hand. Cocker spaniel swimming in river. Hunters on river bed. Men sleeping beside rifles.
Men practising wood chopping.
Men with horses. Riding through forest. At river. Filleting fish on log. Smoko on log. Man sitting [naked] high on the bare bough of a fallen tree. Riding through fields.