PUBLIC WORKS EXPERIMENTS 1956

Rights Information
Year
1956
Reference
F4148
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1956
Reference
F4148
Media type
Moving image
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
In-House
Duration
00:23:21

Stony field in the Wairarapa, stone picking machine (Powell & Mitchels Ch.Ch. maker), demonstration with spectators, stone picked fields. Fire in scrub, burnt hillside, flooded farmland, Biplane dropping water / chemicals on runway at Rongotai Airport, group of people by red biplane at Rongotai. Same style of shots at Rotorua. Group of people by NAC DC3, Agricultural Aviation show, Palmerston North, 9 - 10th November 1956. Loading top dressing biplane, top dressing hillside, loading Fletcher aircraft with phosphate, top dressing hillside, helicopter taking off & spraying, fitting fence posts & fencing material to red plane & dropping load on hillside, crowd at event. Aerial fencing trials at Porirua. Shots taken during experiments. Loading barbed wire onto plane wing, plane flying & dropping load, group of men round cable drum, loading fence posts onto plane wing, plane taking off, plane controls, plane dropping load, c/u of pilots hand on joystick with release button, plane landing, people at drop site, damaged concrete fence posts, bale of wooden fence posts, wire drum, damaged drum.