MOTAT: CONTINUING HISTORY OF MUSEUM OF TRANSPORT AND TECHNOLOGY AUCKLAND

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1964
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F49922
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Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1964
Reference
F49922
Media type
Moving image
Item unavailable online
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Amateur
Credits
Photography: Harold Stone
Producer: Harold Stone

Cluster of sign posts. Sign: “MoTaT” - panning across to truck with sign in window: “The continuing history of” - panning down to sign on truck door: “Museum of Transport and Technology Auckland”. Title: “An amateur film Photographed and Produced by Harold Stone”. Titles: “Recording construction programmes and acquisitions as they arrived”. “August 1964 At this stage development consisted of the Pumphouse, Hall and Agricultural Buildings. Construction of the first Road Transport Building is underway”.

Tram body [Auckland tram 248] arriving at Motat by truck and trailer. Bogies being unloaded from truck and put onto tracks. Tram body being lifted off transported and placed on bogies. Views of building construction. An Harvard trainer being towed by truck. Small jet plane, Vampire on truck trailer. Planes being place in grassed area.
COL Views of air force officers and dignitaries at airport, with planes in the background. Men grouped around, a sign on a easel in the foreground which reads: “Lancaster Bomber W.U.13 ... Presented by France April 15 1964”. [French Naval personal].
(B&W). Aircraft being reassembled by Motat members. Mechanics working on the engines. Man working in cockpit.

COL Aircraft on display. Convoy of buildings being moved along public road and being brought into Motat’s grounds . Shots of “Auckland Crane Services” crane being used to erect [or dismantle] large steel framed structure. Girders on trucks. [Timber] trusses being unloaded from truck and stacked in grassy area. Stacks of corrugated iron. Pre assembled roof trusses and cranes. Crane operators preparing to lift truss. Roof trusses being lifted onto completed walls of building. Building with roof sheathed in corrugated iron. Roof truss on ground panning across to shot of three different types of telephone box. Man on bulldozer pulling scrub and cut tree into bonfire. People looking around Motat museum; men driving vintage car. Man setting up fence around operating traction engine. Women in period costume riding in “International” vintage car. Front view of steam locomotive and two Motat staff. Man loading firebox of locomotive. Shot from locomotive as it moves off. Man hand cranking plane engine. Old bus sitting and stack of timber boxes car ferry Children playing. Views of crossing. Bus being unloaded from ferry with crane. Man holding up comical cartoon picture featuring very similar bus. view of bus in Motat park. View of launch towing flying boat - taken from flying boat, view from launch of flying boat ZK-AMO [Short S.45A Solent 4]. Flying boat being worked on on land. View from flying boat of small tractor towing it. View of a flying boat at its dock taken from [probably] onboard another flying boat. People looking at flying boat, minus its engines, on beach. Diver standing beside flying boat. Children standing in mooring line compartment. Flying boat being towed along unsealed road. Flying boat crossing main road; clearing power lines, and being put on vacant land. Workers having a drink. Timber building with sign: “Hotel Kohukohu”. Sign on window of a building: “Hokianga Herald”. Men moving heavy industrial equipment. “Morningside” Railway Station. Heavy equipment being loaded onto [or unloaded from] railway wagons. Heavy equipment being sorted at Motat. Rails and sleepers being laid. Man with bulldozer clearing scrub. Transported buildings in position at Motat.

Men preparing to lay rails. girl with unrestored tram. Men working on overhead tram power lines. Shot of tram moving along newly laid tram line. Driver and tram passengers. views of activities on a very wet day. Helicopter on field. View of Motat complex from main road. People at entry kiosk Shots of people looking indoor and outdoor exhibits. Large group of people watching machine pumping foam into large hole; firemen in foam and movie photographers cataloguing the event. Man taking still photograph of a group of formally dressed men; men being shown around Motat complex. Night time shots of Motat. Building being moved to new location. Men dredging trench in field [preparatory to museum expansion]. “Kaitaia Tractors Ltd” vehicle and service station. Excavations in field. Hand holding up archaeological [steel pipe junction] find. Shots of steam locomotive “K 900” [probably on main line]. Group of dignitaries [including Sir Dove-Mayer Robinson and army officers] looking at outdoor gun exhibit. Men laying railway of tram tracks. Crane lifting small steam locomotive onto railway tracks. Passenger carriage being lifted onto tracks.
[All taken at the Museum of Transport and Technology, Auckland]
AA Sign: “Ferry Mead”. Van with sign writing: “Tramway Historical Society - Christchurch”. Views of [newly constructed] tram barn and trams. Men looking at small [Baldwin steam] locomotive [used for pulling tram trailers]. Steam locomotive and passenger carriage. Men laying railway tracks. [Probably taken at Ferry Mead [Ferrymead] historical Park, Christchurch].

People boarding tram. Sign: “Tram Museum”. View over tram driver’s shoulder. Panning view around ground showing trams, buses and other old vehicles. Shots of advertising on tram exteriors. [Appears to be at Queen Elizabeth Park, Paekakariki.]
Title: “The end”