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This silent amateur home movie was originally captured on 8mm film and is part of the James (”Jim”) H. Robertson collection. Robertson (1902-1961) was a watchmaker and jeweller and avid filmmaker. He married Ivy Grooby in 1926 and they lived in Wellington for a time before settling in Motueka.
Opening title: “MOVIE MAGIC”. Several objects including a stool and cigarette box are stop-motion animated on a lawn.
Intertitle: “HAIR DO.” A woman brushes a young girl’s hair. The girl and a boy come and go through a glass doorway from a kitchen to a deck while a man with a baby and two women look on.
Road sign for Takaka Hill Summit. Views from travelling car of narrow road and landscape. A man climbs a wire fence and gathers a handful of snow from the top of a fallen log. Panning view of landscape, hill paddocks with tree stumps, snow capped mountains in distance, power pylon. Men explore the landscape of [burnt out] tree stumps and light snow.
Intertitle: “A Miniature Railway”. A model train engine with three carriages runs along a train track that has been set up on a lawn, with a long course that goes around a tree and past little buildings and animals. The train navigates curves and straights and has several derailments.
Two bulls in a paddock lock horns as a border collie watches. Later the bulls graze calmly.