Looking towards the corner of George Street and Cuba Street.

Mayfair movie theatre, 2ZA radio station and Government Building.

Creator:      Vernon Smith
Place:          George Street
Date:          circa 1960 to circa 1964

Wallace (Wally) Smith of Palmerston North was a keen home movie maker.

Movie footage includes: New Zealand Centennial pavillion in Wellington 1940; Otago Centennial in Dunedin 1948; Palmerston North 75th jubilee 1952 - includes centennial train, ...

Creator:      Wallace Smith
Place:          New Zealand
Date:          1940 to 1960

Wallace (Wally) Smith of Palmerston North was a keen home movie maker.

Movie footage includes: The Square; neon lights; Memorial Park skating; steam train through The Square; horse racing at Awapuni Showgrounds; net fishing; car racing; Changing...

Creator:      Wallace Smith
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          1940 to 1970

Home movie including: climbing radio masts; flooding; opening of Awapuni Sewerage Treatment Plant; Massey University open day; aeroplane (NAC) at Milson Airport; beach activities; ballooning; family and home activities.

Filmed by Wallace Smith.

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Creator:      Wallace Smith
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          1960 to 1975

A New Zealand Newsreel, entitled "Through the Years".

Includes segments on: Roxborough Childrens' Health Camp; Feilding Polo Championship; Rakaia River in flood; Temuka - Memorial Pa to Ratana; Dunedin cable car loses trailer; Franz Joseph Glacie...

Creator:      New Zealand Newsreel
Place:          New Zealand
Date:          1920 to 1949

Centennial activities including the skyhawk display, Regent Street lights, Tokomaru Museum, fireworks display, activities in The Square, re-enactment of the arrival of Louisa Snelson at the Manawatū River, fly past, parade of floats, marching girl...

Creator:      Wallace Smith
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          March 1971

Home movie compiled and believed to be all filmed by Wallace Smith.

Colour movie around The Square, including showing stages of the construction of the new Civic Administration building on the corner of Main Street and The Square, late 1970s.

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Creator:      Wallace Smith and others
Date:          1940 to 1980

Home movie of the Smith family during summer.

Includes footage of working around home - making a trailer, concreting, dismantling a car; weddings; a 'pop group' in a studio and playing in the The Square; Victoria Esplanade Gardens; city lights at...

Creator:      Wallace Smith
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1960s

R & E Tingey & Co Ltd were wallpapers and paint specialist, situated on The Square next to the Grand Hotel.

Creator:      Vernon Smith
Place:          The Square, Palmerton North
Date:          circa 1968

The studios and offices of the Broadcasting Corporation were in George Street.

Creator:      Vernon Smith
Place:          George Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1968