[NAPIER EARTHQUAKE. OFFCUTS]

Rights Information
Year
1931
Reference
F4191
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1931
Reference
F4191
Media type
Moving image
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Actuality
Duration
0:03:46
Production company
E COUBRAY, theatre service news
Credits
Camera: Edwin Coubray

Scenes of the destruction in Napier and Hastings the day after the earthquake and some of the work clearing up. Shows Napier Post Office with stopped clock.

M.S. Marines & others working in rubble.
Pan across disintegrated shop fronts fallen into street.
Pan across collapsed buildings 'Central Buildings'.M
W.S. people working in rubble.
Face of Bluff where landslide occurred, pan across slide.
W.S. House subsided.
View of cracks in road, photographer advancing.
W.S. Cameraman set up with camera, cars and trucks stuck in collapsed road.
men advance towards camera, with batons and armbands.
Pan across moving car in front of band rotunda & other collapsed buildings.
View of facade of 3 storey building.
View of rubble and walls.
Church tower from above, roof and walls main building gone.
W.S. Vehicle overturned in rubble.
Napier Post Office with stopped clock.
Men digging in rubble.
M.S. Collapsed building, camera moves, pans across man walking through rubble.
M.S. men digging in rubble.
Men looking at destruction.
M.S. people assisted off back of 'Fargo' truck (Wanganui, Palmerston, Wellington Service).
M.S. men eating.
W.S. Shop with 'Hawkes Bay C.O.D.' (? in Hastings) Pan across street full of rubble.
W.S. Upstairs dining room exposed by loss of facade.
W.S. Dentist's rooms exposed.
End.