PERSONAL RECORD. ANDREWS, PHILIP K. [WAITING FOR THE ROYAL TRAIN, WELLINGTON ROYAL DECORATIONS]

Rights Information
Year
1953
Reference
F40020
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1953
Reference
F40020
Media type
Moving image
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Amateur
Duration
0:02:39

This home movie was originally captured on colour 16mm film.

Queen Elizabeth II drives past crowd lined streets, waving from the car, possibly in Palmerston North. Crowds on the edging of a railway line awaiting the arrival of the Queen. Train drives past and stops amongst the crowd. The train departs and the Queen waves from the rear of the caboose. Decorations on the Wellington Town Hall and Wellington library, looking up Cuba Street from outside the Town Hall. The Town Hall in decoration. Mount Victoria end of Courtney Place. Entrance to Government house. A Māori warrior on the from of the James Smith building. Sign reads: ‘Naumai’.