PERSONAL RECORD. SWANWICK, FRANCIS CORRISON. [NEW ZEALAND SOLDIERS ON NORFOLK ISLAND, AUSTRALIAN AND FIJIAN SOLDIERS IN FIJI]

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1942
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F46670
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Year
1942
Reference
F46670
Media type
Moving image
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Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Amateur
Duration
0:09:44

Farmland festooned with Norfolk Pines on Norfolk Island. Ruins at the former penal settlement at Kingston on Norfolk Island. Various elevated views of the the old buildings still extant. People riding in buggy. NZ Army corporal on a horse.
Trio of soldiers. Soldier with his arm in cast with little girl.
Path leading through tent camp. Soldier clambering over rocks with pole. Soldiers in tent.
Group of men [army personnel] in athletic uniforms marching; athletic events, high jump etc.. Soldiers and there families gathered on the sun. Group of people and views of other spectators (many are soldiers).
Coastal views of the Island. Soldiers standing outside stone gateway at penal colony. Group of soldiers with large fish, and preparing dinner. Cook holding up fish with cigarette hanging out mouth. Scenic views.
Kicking about a rugby ball in field.
Two very young servicemen joshing in front of tent. Man feeding large tine can with kindling for its fire.
Norfolk countryside. View over the island.

Letters scratched in emulsion so to read “FIJI” on projection.

Long shot panning view of coast showing houses. Palms and beach[es]. Two Australian soldiers; walking towards camera. Soldier with boy. Fijian and New Zealand soldiers walking on street. CU of Fijian soldier in lava-lava. Two Polynesian soldiers in field.
View across farmland to snow capped mountain range in New Zealand.