PERSONAL RECORD. FIJIAN HOLIDAY

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Year
1965
Reference
F24015
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Year
1965
Reference
F24015
Media type
Moving image
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Place of production
Fiji
Categories
Amateur
Duration
0:21:00

Title ‘Fijian Holiday’. Scenes of Fijian holiday including family at pool side in front of traditional buildings, traditional Fijian dancing, scenic views of harbour from traveling boat, people snorkeling, woman showing passengers on boat various marine life. Local man climbs coconut tree and picks coconut. Woman sitting on boat playing guitar. Passengers disembark. Tradewinds Hotel. Waterskiing on harbour. Scenic views of harbour at sunset. The Reef Hotel. Local woman and tourist sitting at bar. Hotel and swimming pool. Gondola car.

Intertitle ‘Pago Pago from the Afono Ridge’. Views of Pago Pago. Intertitle ‘Aggie Greys Hotel’. Views of hotel, European woman in Fijian dress standing outside hotel, walking around, scenic landscape. Waterfall. Locals posing for camera. Intertitle ‘The Cave Pool at Pilau’. Views of pool, scenic landscape. Intertitle ‘Samoan Hideaway’. European man standing on beach, swimming in sea. Scenic Fijian landscape. Sunset.

Titles ‘ Pacific Productions Presents’, ‘The Road to the Golden River’, ‘To Dunedin in mid 1882 came the exciting news of gold’, ‘Gold’. Pan across landscape [Otago]. Intertitle ‘Waikouaiti became the entry port to Eldorado’. Views of Waikouaiti. Intertitle ‘The Pigroot. The road to the golden river’. Intertitle ‘Abandoned hotels on the trail to the Kyeburn and Naseby’. Views of hotels. Intertitle ‘Gold at the Kyeburn and Hamiltons’. Scenic views of landscape. Intertitles ‘Gold on the Molyneux’, ‘Hundreds then thousands headed for the interior’, ‘1882 August, Gold at the Dunstan’.

Plaque ‘The Dunstan Gold Rush’. Views of river and landscape, abandoned dwellings, door in house on cliff. Intertitle ‘Clyde, formerly Dunstan’. Views of Clyde streets and houses, memorial. Intertitle ‘Gold at the Manuherekia’. Views of stone pillars of bridge, broken memorial stone, landscape, abandoned house, river. Intertitle ‘Alexandra, formerly Manuherekia’. Car driving over bridge, scenic views of river and landscape. ‘Butchers Dam’ sign. ‘Conroy’s Gully’ sign. ‘Conroy’s Dam’ sign. Landscape, various stone buildings. Intertitle ‘The Packers Camp was at Chamonix. Now Gorge Creek’. Monument ‘In memory of the pioneer gold miners who perished in the great snow 1863’. Intertitle ‘Miner’s huts on the Hawkburn’. Views of ruins of huts. ‘Gold on the Kawarau’. Kawarau River scenes, abandoned buildings.

Intertitles ‘Gold on the Shotover’, ‘Arthurs Point on the lower Shotover River’. Scenic landscape and Shotover River, abandoned house, plaque ‘Malaghans Post Office and Hotel’. Intertitle ‘November, gold on the Arrow’. Views of Arrow River, Arrowtown street scenes. Intertitle ‘1864 gold at St Bathans’. Buildings, river, person waterskiing on river. ‘From Chatto Creek water races ran for miles over the rugged country to the working sites’. Scenes at Chatto Creek of buildings. ‘May 1883 Gold at the Hogburn and Mt Ida’. Views of township. River and cliffs. ‘By the end of 1864 the dredges were taking over and the exciting days of the hand-won gold were ending’. Stone remains of buildings.

Intertitle ‘1968, holiday prospectors try their luck at Shanty Creek, Lake Roxborough’. Views of people digging for gold and panning for gold. ‘The End’. View of dam. Intertitle ‘Construction work in progress at Aviemore Hydro’. Views of dam construction. Men swimming and diving in water. Water flowing from dam. Lake. ‘Construction work in progress at Roxborough Hydro’. Views of Roxburgh Hydro dam under construction.