[LOOKING AT NEW ZEALAND. A PICTORIAL MAGAZINE. GISBORNE, TOP DRESSING 1966] EXCERPTS

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Year
1966
Reference
F50027
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1966
Reference
F50027
Media type
Moving image
Item unavailable online
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Duration
0:12:00
Production company
NZBC
Credits
Photography: Ann McKay
Producer: Conon Fraser

Wild footage (from Gisborne Museum) originally filmed for NZBC by Mrs Ann McKay for 'Pictorial Magazine' programme.

Man talking in front of a map, pointing to areas of Gisborne coast and inland. Men looking at aerial photograph. Man drawing on graph on wall, detailing hours to next check of top-dressing plane. Top dressing planes on runway, top dressing plane taxis to stop in front of hangar with ‘Field Air’ sign. Man in hat shakes hands with pilot, pilot turns propellor and second man inspects it. Badge on plane ‘De Havilland of Canada Limited’. Sign on door ‘Beaver’. Three men on air field shake hands, Field Air plane in bgd. Man turns propellor of Tiger Moth. Air Traffic Control tower, men working inside control tower. Various views inside hangar.

Man releases weather balloon. Man tracks weather balloon with machine. Airland top dressing plane is loaded. Train passes through landscape. Top dressing plane taxis and takes off. Children in field on coast watching top dressing plane. Top dressing plane top dressing farm land on coast. Children run down hill, children file into school buses lined up in row. Pilot gets out of plane while man refuels aircraft, then plane takes off. Field Air plane is filled with fertiliser, plane takes off, plane spreads fertiliser on land, school children watch. School children watch loader picking up fertiliser, children take notes.

Classroom scenes, boys build model of plane, boys work on engine, Maori boy sits in control tower. Children perform play. Children fly model plane, boy refuels model plane. Teacher in class with children. Farmer enters classroom with sheep dog, sits and talks to the children. Samples of fertilizer in jars. Model in classroom of sheep farm. Children's work on wall on classroom with pictures of farmland. Man talks to children in classroom about wool, demonstrating with wool sample. Man shears sheep in shearing shed, children watch.