Royal Visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York to New Zealand (1901)

Directed by

Joseph Perry

Genre

documentary

Country

New Zealand

Runtime

56 min

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a silent documentary from 1901. It shows the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York during their official visit to Wellington, New Zealand. Joseph Perry made the film with permission from Prime Minister Richard Seddon.

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What happens

Royal Visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York to New Zealand was a 1901 New Zealand silent documentary film made by the Limelight Department of the Salvation Army in Australia. New Zealand Prime Minister Richard Seddon gave permission for Joseph Perry to film the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York in Wellington. It was one of New Zealand's early documentary films, going for 8 minutes. The earliest films being from the first of December 1898, the opening of the Auckland Industrial and Mining Exhibition, and Boxing Day that year, Uhlan winning the Auckland Cup at Ellerslie Racecourse. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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