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Description

Film created by David Evans of the City Council's Planning Office on 16mm Cine-Kodak Super-X filmstock.
Created to demonstrate inner city traffic flow problems in the mid 1950s, this film shows a unique slice of Palmerston North daily life with a variety of makes and models of cars, streetscapes, bicycles and pedestrians.

Text found with film:
"Rangitikei Street, good exposure - accident cnr Cuba St…"

M D (David) Evans was a planning assistant from 1955 to 1968, Deputy City Planner from 1968 to 1978 and Senior Planning Officer (Design and Development) from 1978-1988.

Identification

Object type
Video
Archive
PNCC
Date
1956
Digitisation ID
2024V_PNCC7-8-3-Box5_Evans_042295
Held In
PNCC Archives

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Taxonomy

Tags
car accident,
fitzherbert street,
rangitikei street,
traffic,
traffic observation,
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