Home movie - Pamerston North scenes
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Wallace Smith of Palmerston North was a keen home movie maker.
Movie footage includes: central Palmerston North; neon lights; Terrace End skating rink; railway line through The Square; Awapuni races; wreath laying and PNBHS Guard of Honour; Grand prix at Ohakea Air Base; troop display; Massey Agricultural College; A & P Show; 1953 floods (Albert Street and Ruahine Street); fight over The Square and surrounds; Milson Air display; music in The Square (last train); car trials in The Square; Centennial floats; clearing site and construction of PNCC new civic administration building; circus on Devines Paddock, Main Street
8mm movie. 26 minutes
Identification
- Object type
- Video
- Relation
- Coolstore
- Date
- circa 1950 to circa 1979
- Digitisation id
- 2021V_2013-45_035460
- Format
- DVD (video disc)
- Held in
- IMCA Digital Archive
Creation
- Created By
- Wallace Smith
- Place
- Palmerston North
Object rights
- License
- By Attribution Alone