This is a compilation of 26 x 25ft 8mm rolls shot by Peter Spurdle between 1949-1967 compiled on 3 separate files for this record. Footage starts from the oldest black and white and moves into colour film in the 1960s period.
A brief scene with two couples leaving a church, the men in wartime uniform and women carrying bouquets. Scene taken from a plane flying over some mountain ranges and along a coast [Kaikoura possibly?]. A woman walking, driving a car and beside a pond.
Two women beside a sea wall feeding and stroking eels that have amassed in a large number in the shallow water. Young woman walking on grass beside a peacock. In the doorway of a small caravan.
Horse race. More shots of the same young woman from earlier scenes.
Short segment in front of Buckingham Palace.
Group of young men and women in swimwear around a pool with a little kitten.
On board a naval ship with a mounted RAF plane on a metal structure. A tank is also on the ship deck.
Uvean war veterans in a meeting room on the island of Wallis. Traditional thatched houses among palm trees along with a Western styled church. Men on a yacht
1960 a couple of men working on a yacht (’Windswift’) in a dry dock slipway in Auckland. At sea sailing, past Cape Brett, Bay of Islands and in open water en route to Norfolk Island.
Sailing along the coast of Wanganui. The ‘Windswift’ sailing on the coast of Gisbourne with docks and warehouses clearly in view. Sailing around Great Barrier Island off the coast of Tryphena. Lots of sailing footage around Great Barrier.
1961, a large family and friends swimming and snorkelling at Lake Taupo. A wedding scene, posing for photos. Yacht at Bay of Islands. Swimming, snorkelling and spear fishing with underwater photography.
Large cargo ship in a harbour in the Java Sea, Indonesia. Large fish (Tuna?) being loaded into a waiting ship. Exploring an island. Swimming. A woman and a local in a little outrigger canoe. Watching an active volcano [most likely Mt. Batutara on Komba Island].
1963 Truck pulling a twin hull boat out of the Whitianga harbour. Family picnicking. Climbing aboard the beached “Allez Cat” boat. End of Windswift trip - back in NZ. Bay of Islands.
Goldmine, Picnic at Black Jack, seagulls, Lavega. Canoe down Suva river to outer reef. Wreck of a Japanese fishing boat on reef. Fiji on reef, shell collecting, spearing fish , collecting dynamited paper
making charges, firing charges under boat. Tauranga Marineland, on Mount Manganui Beach, with penguins, dolphins, sea lions and even chimpanzees riding tricycles.