PICTORIAL PARADE No. 35

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Year

1955

NFU Picture/Sheet No.

"PP35"

Length

B&W, 11 minutes

Viewing copies

VHS Video- R.V. 235 16mm film- W3589/16PP35 35mm film- W3606/h/5 VHS Video (Preview Tape)- BITC 74

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B&W 11 mins. 35mm 998 ft. FOR DAYLIGHT MAIN TRUNK SERVICE - NEW RAILCAR INSPECTED 78 ft NAVAL EXERCISES - BLACK PRINCE AND HAWEA IN COOK STRAIT168 ft IDEAS FOR ENGINEERS - AN INVENTOR IN THE MACKENZIE COUNTRY703 ft Film Censor's Certificate No. G940 (26 April 1955) Release Date: 29.4.55 NFU Film Information Sheet No. PP35 Cat. Refs. 1956 p.34; 1957 p.38; 1958 p.33; 1962 p.34. B&W 11 mins. 35mm 998 ft. NEW RAILCAR INSPECTED. 78 ft. The Minister of Railways inspects a new articulated railcar during a trial run from Wellington to Napier. NAVAL EXERCISES. 168 ft. The frigate Hawea leaves Wellington harbour and joins cruiser Black Prince in Cook Strait, where gunnery exercises are carried out under the eye of Commodore Sir Charles Madden, and men and mails are transferred from ship to ship by jackstay. AN INVENTOR IN THE MACKENZIE COUNTRY. 703 ft. At Irishman's Creek, a remote Mackenzie Country sheep station, we see the owner, Mr C. W. F. Hamilton, trying out the jet-propelled boat which is his latest development. His farm workshop has grown to be the development centre for an acre-large factory in Christchurch City, where many of Mr Hamilton's inventions are produced commercially - hydraulic cranes, heavy road graders loader-dozers, hydraulic excavators, and other earthmoving machines. Viewing copies : VHS Video- R.V. 235 16mm film- W3589/16PP35 35mm film- W3606/h/5 VHS Video (Preview Tape)- BITC 74 PICTORIAL PARADE No. 36

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