PERSONAL RECORD. FLETCHER, JAMES MUIR CAMERON. [ALTON LODGE, HORSES, FAMILY, DAIRY COWS, CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION]

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1939
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F82202
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Year
1939
Reference
F82202
Media type
Moving image
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Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Amateur
Duration
0:11:55
Credits
Photography: James Muir Cameron Fletcher

Brief shots from train travelling through the [Rocky Mountains of the USA].

The New Zealand Centennial Exhibition opening in Wellington: Exterior shot - man holding top hat and cane [a recent speaker] walking through crowd who are looking the other way.

Truck with red/ urple cab and Alton Lodge written on the door. (Alton Lodge was a bloodstock [racehorse breeding] farm at Waerenga in Waikato owned by the Fletcher family.) Man and woman [Fletchers], each holding a hand of the toddler between them, walking towards camera across field. Toddler on grass. Views of white fences and paddocks with hills beyond. Horses in paddock. Horse being led in front of spectators [at Yearling Sales].

William Trethewey’s Kupe statue -The Coming of the Māori (1939) - in original setting at the Centennial Exhibition. Shot of decorative scupture in pool with back of Kupe scuplture and exhibition buildings beyond. Tower with [ADAD] lettering at top. Australia pavilion (with silhouette map of the country as well as the name.).

Two men [from Alton Lodge] exiting car. Many Alton Lodge field and horse shots - including man holding horse bridle in each hand (with horses attached.) Well-dressed woman in hat with small terrier walking (towards camera) through flock of sheep. Men in the cab of the red truck. Horses in corral. Cows in paddock. eating hay. Woman in shawl and seated man with hat beside rear of horse.