Royal Visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York to New Zealand (1901)

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   joachimt

   To all 16 checkers of this short:
   
   I guess you all watched the less than 2 minute version online. However, there is a good chance this short will be available completely in the near future. I contacted The New Zealand Film Archive. The reply was:
   
   "The section of the film that is on our website shows the medal ceremony in Dunedin. We originally put it online to illustrate an entry on our online exhibition, Tracking Shots. http://www.filmarchive.org.nz/tracking-shots/close-ups/FightingGoodFight.html
   
   In time we will put the whole item online, however, as the catalogue record suggests most of the film is of scenes of the reception at Rotorua and this contains images of significance to Māori. We are currently in negotiation with Māori groups about ongoing care and access to images of Taonga Māori and these conversations include uploading material to our website.
   
   In the meantime if you have specific questions about the film I will do my best to answer them. The film has a fascinating history, until recently it was the earliest in our collection, however we have not received it in one piece - over time small sections have been deposited with us which our conservation staff have identified them as being parts of the larger film. It's a bit like an ongoing jig-saw puzzle (unfortunately however we don't expect that there are further sections left to find)." 10 years 5 months ago
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   Dimitris Psachos Springer

   This is why I'm ALWAYS cautious with fragments like these and not an intrepid check-whore, ha! 10 years 5 months ago
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   marco_n65

   The two minutes of footage from Visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York to New Zealand preserved at the BFI National Archive represent a small fragment of a 56-minute film produced in June 1901 by Melbourne’s Salvation Army Limelight Department. Described by film historians Chris Long and Clive Sowry as the ‘longest and most important production of New Zealand’s colonial period’, the film recorded the Royal visit from arrival by ship in Auckland on 11 June 1901 to departure from the Dunedin railway station on 27 June (Long and Sowry, 1995, p.26.
   
   (mod-edit: link changed)
   https://ngataonga.org.nz/collections/catalogue/catalogue-item?record_id=64330 10 years 8 months ago

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