PERSONAL RECORD. GOWER, RICHARD. CONTINENTAL TOUR APRIL 5TH TO JUNE 1ST 1939

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Year
1939
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F48821
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Moving image
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Photography: Richard Gower

2001.0114.1 (Film maker’s No 1 can)
Titles: “Continental Tour April 5th to June 1st 1939”, “Geneva; Grenoble; Monte Carlo; Villefranche Harbour; Cannes; Nice; Genoa; Rome; Florence; Venice; Interlaken; Lucerne”. Shots of sights, monuments, locals and family members in the above cities / locations (Some shots b&w, but most are colour).

2001.0114.2 (Film maker’s No 2 can)
Title: “Munich; Vienna; Budapest; Vienna to Budapest on Danube steamer; Berlin; Potsdam”. Shots of sights, monuments, locals and family members in the above cities / locations (Black & white and colour).

2001.0114.3 (Film maker’s No 3 can)
Title: “Heidelburg; Bingerbruch to Cologne on Rhine steamer; Amsterdam ; Isle of Marken; Volendam; Brussels; The Hague; Paris; Versailles”. Shots of sights, monuments, locals and family members in the above cities / locations (Black & white and colour).

2001.0114.4 (Film maker’s No 4 can)
Title: “Malmaisson; Versailles; Paris; Somme Battlefield; Amiems; Boulogne”. Shots of family visiting NZ Memorial to the Missing in Caterpillar Valley cemetery where they point out names on honour roll and and the New Zealand National Memorial at Longueval on the Somme battlefield (col). Footage of Lutyen’s Memorial to the Missing of the Somme and the Newfoundland Regiment’s memorial at Beamount Hamel. Shots of sights, monuments, locals and family members in the above cities (Black & white and colour). Title: “English Tour June 2nd - June 25th 1939. Cornish Coast; North Devon coast; Dartmoor; Scotland; Lake District; Gretna Green” Shots of sights, monuments, locals and family members in the above cities / locations (Black & white and colour).

2001.0114.5 (Film maker’s No 5 can)
Title: “Edinburgh; Royal Scotch Fusiliers Band; Fountains Abbey ruins; Cambridge; London; Leichester; Regent’s Park Zoo”. Shots of sights, monuments, locals and family members in the above cities / locations (Black & white and colour).
Title: “Scandinavian Tour July 2nd - July 16th 1939. Copenhagen; Stalheim; Stockholm; Oslo; Norway. London.” Shots of sights, monuments, locals and family members in the above cities / locations (Black & white and colour).

2001.0114.6 (Film maker’s No 6 can)
Title: “Leichester, England; Norwich; Norfolk Broads; Sandringham Castle”. Colour shots of the above. Title: “Tour of Ireland, Aug. 21st. - Aug. 31st. 1939. Wicklow County; Blarney Castle; Killarney Lakes; Giant’s Causeway.” Colour shots of the above. Title: “Canadian Tour 1939. St. Lawrence River; Montreal; Ottawa.”. Colour shots of the above.

2001.0114.7 (Film maker’s No 7 can)
Title: “American Tour, 1939. Niagara Falls; Grand Canyon; Los Angeles; Hollywood; Yosemite Valley; San Francisco; Treasure Island; Honolulu; Pago Pago”. Scenes as above and shots of the Golden Gate International Exposition 1939 - 1940 including Pacifica Court with Maori whare. Shots of Hawaii. Village life in Pago Pago, [American Samoa]. Scenes of family at racecourse [This looks as though it may have been shot in New Zealand; possibly Ellerslie.] All these shots are colour.