SCREENING FOR THE PARNELL HERITAGE SOCIETY 2009
[FLYING SCHOOL AT KOHIMARAMA] [1917 ]
Men are trained to fly seaplanes at Leo and Vivian Walsh’s flying school at Mission Bay in Auckland. The airmen include George Bolt, who went on to make his name in New Zealand aviation history. Good shots of the Waitemata Harbour, Mechanics Bay and Rangitoto. The men attend classes and perform callisthenics outside. In their spare time they enjoy swimming and water skiing around the Orakei wharf.
LUNA PARK 1928
Scenes of the fairground on the waterfront below Parnell: the Luna Park illuminated castle, the roller coaster, the scenic river boats, people on the dodgem cars, the swinging boat ride, a crowd watching a performing horse and a brass band playing.
F50956 1930 PERSONAL RECORD. WISEMAN, MURRAY [CALISTHENICS, HEARDS LTD PARNELL] MASS DISPLAY OF WOMEN DOING CALISTHENICS AT A SPORTS GROUND. WOMEN IN WHITE SMOCKS HOLDING A SIGN "HEARDS LTD". LINE UP OF MALES I N FOOTBALL GEAR. PEOPLE SWIMMING IN A PUBLIC POOL. MORE CALISTHENICS. PARADE OF CALISTHENICS WOMEN BEHIND DIFFERENT BANNERS.
PERSONAL RECORD. O'BRIEN, DAVID. [AUCKLAND] [194- ]
View over Auckland city. Franklin road. Grafton Bridge. Auckland Hospital. Sign: "Wards.... Massage & Splint Depts.” An aircraft in sky. Auckland Railway Station. Panned shot of a reserve. Dog in car. View from Symonds Street from harbour to Parnell. Parnell Rise. Auckland University. The Clock Tower. Albert Park.
F49478 PERSONAL RECORD. TINGEY, ALBERT. PANORAMIC VIEW TOWARDS CITY FROM TITIRANGI OCT 1974 VIEWS OF SUBURBAN MAIN STREET. NATIVE BUSH. PANNING VIEWS OVER CITY AND VIEWS OF SUBURBAN STREET / SCENIC DRIVE. "MARINE PARADE FROM PARNELL". VIEW FROM HILL LOOKING DOWN ON VEHICLES ON CAUSEWAY. VIEWS OF HARBOUR FROM HILL AND FROM SHORE. "IT'S A PARNELL AFFAIR EVERY SATURDAY". PEOPLE WALKING UNDER SIGN: "PARNELL VILLAGE...". MAN LOOKING THROUGH PICTURES LEANED UP AGAINST WROUGHT IRON FENCE. VIEWS OF FAMILIES IN SHOPPING PRECINCT. SAILORS WITH SMALL SAIL BOAT. 'PARNELL KINDERGARTEN' STALL. 'AUCKLAND REGIONAL
AUTHORITY BUS LEAVING BUS STOP. SIGN WITH ARROW: 'THE PARNELL AFFAIR - TODAY'. MARKET STALLS. VIEW OF CROWDS CRAMMED ON TO FOOTPATH OUTSIDE 'INHABIT' STORE.
PERSONAL RECORD. GILMOUR, H R. OLD MILL 1 1950
Partington’s Windmill situated on Symonds St, Auckland, its windmill removed. Crane next to the structure. [Interior]. View from top of the windmill. The slow demolition of the building, two men slowly dismantling the brick work at the top. A large pile of rubble where the windmill once stood.
Note: Partingtons Windmill is built by Charles Partington. During the New Zealand Wars Partington’s business, the Victoria Flour Mill lands the lucrative contract to supply the Army troops with biscuits. Despite bad storm damage in 1924 and being gutted by fire in 1931 the brick built Windmill continue to grind corn until 1941. It was demolished in 1950.
[ASSORTED AUCKLAND SCENES] [1953]
Shots of Auckland in the 1950s: - Disembarking ramp being wheeled up to TEAL plane and people disembarking. - “At the Parnell Rose Gardens you’ll see Auckland as the garden city”. - Assorted shots of rose gardens. - “Crossing the harbour by ferry we come to many safe and sandy beaches”. - Asst’d beach & shoreline scenes with people. - TEAL plane taxiing. - Cenotaph in front of Auckland museum with ‘Consecrated Ground’ sign in foreground.
- Memorial (probably in gardens by museum) with water pond in front. - Wharfies with rope sling loading boat with N.Z. Herald bags. - Cars arriving at One Tree Hill. - People at lookout. - Shot of City. - People looking at vista. - Wharfies with sling on wharf. - TEAL plane taxiing and one landing.
PERSONAL RECORD. LAMBOURNE, AD. [PARNELL - AUCKLAND] [195- ] 02:49:40 Shots of 2 storey family home; colourful gardens; Rangitoto Island in the
background; members of the public wandering through the Parnell Rose Gardens; hundreds enjoying themselves at the Public Baths and at beaches along Auckland’s foreshores; Rangitoto Island; yachts on Auckland’s Waitemata Harbour; suburbs around the harbour; homes; driving along Tamaki Drive towards Mission Bay? young girl in fancy dress, skating around the back yard.
02:54:05 Last picture frame.
PERSONAL RECORD. [AUCKLAND AND WELLINGTON SCENES 1959] F23985 1959 056:15 SCENES INCLUDE: SHIPS IN AUCKLAND'S HARBOUR AND WHARF; FOUNTAIN; AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY; CATHEDRAL; SCULPTURE; AUCKLAND BOTANICAL GARDENS AND MUSEUM; WAR
MEMORIAL MONUMENT; ZOOLOGICAL PARK; AUCKLAND SCENES FROM LOOKOUT POINTS; HARBOUR; THE MICHAEL JOSEPH SAVAGE MEMORIAL; YACHTING ON THE WAITEMATA HARBOUR; MISSION BAY BEACH. 059:47 PARNELL BATHS. SCENES OF THE BATHS AND ITS PATRONS; WATER FOUNTAIN AT MISSION BAY.
F109426 LIAM FINN. GATHER TO THE CHAPEL 2007
FILMED AT ST STEPHEN'S CHURCH, PARNELL, AUCKLAND. "MOOD IS VERY IMPORTANT HERE AND THAT IS CONVEYED BY BEING SET AMONGST THE GRAVESTONE LITTERED GROUNDS AND INTERIOR OF ST STEPHEN'S CHAPEL IN PARNELL, AUCKLAND. WITH THIS VIDEO LIAM FINN IMPOSED THE 'ONE SHOT' IDEA AND IT WORKS WELL BECAUSE HE GIVES A GREAT PERFORMANCE. NOT LEAST BEHIND THE CAMERA AS HE DUCKS AND RACES TO REACH EACH 'MARKER' BEFORE THE CAMERA SWINGS TO VIEW HIM THERE, LOOKING RELAXED, SINGING AND PLAYING AWAY AS IF HE HAD BEEN THERE ALL DAY LONG. THE RESULT OF FINE CO-ORDINATION AND TIMING ON LIAM'S PART..." - JOE LONIE IN CONVERSATION WITH ROGER SHEPHERD, 2008