SCHLEY RIDE TO NEW ZEALAND
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Year Published: 1970s
Format: 16mm
Description: Part 1: • " SCHLEY RIDE TO NEW ZEALAND " NORMAN... This 1970s color film (Part 2 of 2) created by Wisconsin accountant and amateur filmmaker Norman E. Schley offers a travelogue view of New Zealand, with music and SFX sans narration, which was intended to be provided during in-person screenings by the touring filmmaker himself. Architectural landmarks, natural features, and cultural activities of Greymouth, Wellington, Rotorua, and Northland are depicted in this colorful Kiwi picture postcard (TRT: 43:59). "Focus" leader over the image of a poolside sleigh (0:07). Flowers in bloom. Coastal views show winding roads, rocky coastlines, and naturally eroded tunnels of sea water (0:19). Punakaiki or "Pancake Rocks." A panorama of the rocky area between Westport and Greymouth on the edge of the Paparoa National Park (0:48). An automobile bridge. An IGA market: "Nimmo’s Self Service Food Centre" (1:37). Train cars loaded with logs. Downtown Greymouth. A hotel, "Revingtons." A church exterior. Greymouth High School (1:55). Westland Greenstone Shop, Tancred St., Hokitika. A sign: "Jade Lapadarians." An interview with the lady proprietor (2:20). Inside the shop, a spinning blade. Men polish precious stones. Decorative inlay work. Jewelry on display (3:19). (4:12). On a map, a pen points from Wellington to Rotorua, then the Northland (4:17). An interview with a doctor from a Tasmania vaccine laboratory, who sterilizes surgeon’s gloves using gamma rays (4:27). Inside the laboratory, boxes of sterilized gloves, control panels. A "Gammatised" sticker (5:32). A funicular. A Wellington city bus and urban architecture (6:38). A bollard, mooring line, and shipping freighter, the Taranui. Wellington’s "Overseas Terminal" harbor. A seagull, a man on an anchor, seaside homes (7:18). A woman on a bench feeds pigeons. A man eats meat on a stick. "Cuba Mall." Pedestrians. A kinetic sculpture with water (8:43). A funicular. A scenic overlook on Mount Victoria (9:20). A plane deploys landing gear. A young diver jumps off a footbridge in Rotorua (9:54). Steaming Pohutu Geyser in the Whakarewarewa Thermal Valley (10:44). The surrounding geothermal park burbles, belches gas from puddles of mud (11:20). Indigeonous men chant, dancing in native dress (12:18). Maori women dancers join, swinging poi balls to vocal accompaniment (13:29). A statue of a Maori Warrior. Maori wood carvings at the entrance to Whakarewarewa village (15:43). A Maori textile weaver, woodcarving (16:02). Downtown Rotorua’s National Bank of New Zealand, post office, "Grand Hotel." A "panelbeater" repairs an auto body (16:46). Steam valves. "The Inferno," bubbling hot springs. Our host chats with a young girl near a sign: "We Are Not Kidding, You Risk Your Life If You Wander From the Paths." Men bathe in waterfalls (17:19). A Maori woman describes natural steam cooking. The restaurant menu of "Hell’s Gate at Tikitere." Trays of lamb meat, carrots, potatoes, chicken in a steam cooker (18:08). Diners eat. Our host, wearing a bib: "I’m a genuine Kiwi" rubs noses with the hostess (20:15). Shearing a sheep with electric clippers. Our host emerges from a pile of wool (20:29). Fishermen board a boat in rainy weather (21:58). Driving through steaming hills (22:48). A pipeline, electrical plant, eruption (23:27). A hot springs pool at the Wairakei resort hotel. A private golf course (24:53). An aqueduct opens (25:41). Tane Mahuta and Te Matua Ngahere, giant kauri trees in the Waipoua Forest of Northland (26:46). Clearing trees, logging (27:32). Cows at pasture, milking at a dairy (28:48). Girls in plaid skirts play basketball. Kids play on a beach (30:03). A man at the helm of a ferry. Dock fishing. A cat and a boy with sardines. Older men smile (31:02). Panoramas of the Northland coast (32:27). Dredging for oysters (32:40). A sightseeing boat. Passengers, seabirds. A sandbar (34:23). Sunset (35:50). A trapped chicken, corrals of cattle, farmers. A shepherd on horseback (36:29). A coastal panorama. Kite fishing (37:52). A bus tour embarks (39:12). A dirt road leads to a photo op. An arched rock. Beaches (40:30). Cape Reinga Lighthouse (41:45). A hitchhiker and the host trade places. "The End" (43:10).
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