Film clip: immigrants enjoy the great outdoors

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A Scottish immigrant woman describes playing indoor activities and basketball and walking in the bush with friends. Extract from Journey for Three, NZ National Film Unit Laboratories, 1950.

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Assisted immigration, 1947-75

Keywords

assisted immigration

immigrants

sport

leisure

women

film

Credit

Journey for Three
Director: Michael Forlong
Producer: Stanhope Andrews
Supervision: Cyril Morton, Geoffrey Scott, Robert Shennan
Camera: Randal Beattie.
Camera Assistant: Brian Brake
Music: Douglas Lilburn

This is a New Zealand National Film Unit Film preserved and made available by Archives New Zealand /Te Whare Tohu Tuhituhinga O Aotearoa. This material is not to be re-used or published without the prior permission of the Chief Archivist.

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'Film clip: immigrants enjoy the great outdoors', URL: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/video/the-great-outdoors, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 17-Jul-2014

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