Title: ‘Mother flies to Wellington for an important event’. Aerial views of snow capped mountains, Central Plateau. Woman walking from plane. Views of plane taxiing and taking off. ‘Here’s ‘Reel’ news about the family’. ‘The wedding of Edgar & Molly on 6-10-45’. Shots of bride and groom: groom in service uniform and bride in blue dress. Shots of family and wedding guests in garden. Bride and groom being showered with confetti. Pair of shoes tied to bumper of wedding car, man runs behind car as it drives away.
‘Returning home’. Woman disembarking plane. ‘Patricia Anne arrives 8-1-1947. First shots at feeding time’. Baby being bottle fed and held by her parents. ‘Bath time’. ‘Play time’. Toddler on rocking horse. Woman [grandmother] with toddler. ‘Growing up at 40 Totara Cresc. Lower Hutt’; toddler playing on lawn. ‘Patricia’s first sister Helen Margaret’. Toddler with woman holding baby. Close up views of mother and baby.
‘All of us at 9 Harley Grove Feb. 1949’; various views of family members outside house. ‘On the beach at Days Bay 27 Feb. 1949’; family relaxing at the beach. ‘Fun at the front of No. 9’. Three little girls pushing their prams in front yard of house. Woman playing ring-a-a-rosie with group of children. ‘Edgar hard at work’; man tilling lawn.
‘Off to Wellington again by air’; aerial views of Central Plateau mountains. ‘With Patricia, Helen, Christine & Philipa at 8 Military Rd’. Formal shot of four young girls; girls playing. Women in front of house. ‘Down with Edgar again in Feb 1952’. Family group in the garden. ‘In the lounge’. Family seated in lounge. ‘Front of No. 8 Military Rd’; views of house, girls run towards camera.
‘In for a swim at Days Bay’. Family in the surf, girls playing in sand on the beach. “Here we are again in 1953’. Couple in garden, family on front of house. ‘At Coleman’s bach’. Family standing on verandah of bach. ‘Ready to leave 6 Burrows Av. Jan 1951’; family saying their good-byes. ‘& leaving Te Kawhata’. People getting into Morris car and driving off. ‘That’s all just now’.