Filming on Ocean Beach, Mount Maunganui 1938-1939

DateNovember 1938 to January 1939Reference NumberPhoto 01-155DescriptionPhotograph of filming on Mount Maunganui's Ocean Beach in late 1938 of the 'Centenary film', eventually released in November 1940 as "One Hundred crowded years". The film has a brief entry in the Internet Movie Database, based on a Wikipedia article of the same title. There are several mentions of the film's production in Te Ara - the online encyclopedia, and several reports on the filming in the Bay of Plenty Times in November 1938-January 1939 (see Sources). New Zealand Archives has posted a video of the film on YouTube.

Published in the Bay of Plenty Times' "Back in time" feature on 7 July 2001, along with Photo 01-156. The caption thought the photos may have been of the filming of "Our Lady of the Cave", Rudall Hayward's first feature film made in Tauranga Moana in 1921.

The feature for 18 August 2001 included the following updates. "Mr W. D. Moxham of Alexandra [writes that].... as a child he was an 'extra' in the film, qualifying for this privilege not because of his acting prowess but because he was top in arithmetic that day at Mount Maunganui Primary School".
"Mrs Mander, whose sister-in-law Dorothy took part in the film, added a title 'New Zealand Speaks' and the date of 1939" (see Photos 01-343 and 06-028 - different prints of the same image).

Photos 01-267, 01-268 and 01-269 appear to have been taken around the same time.FormatPrintPhysical Descriptionblack and white printSource of AcquisitionMarion Proud SourcesNew Zealand Centenary Film. » Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 12497, 4 November 1938, Page 1.

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Filming on Ocean Beach, Mount Maunganui 1938-1939

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