BMA world tour : Alternative itinerary. Part 3.

Date:
c.1935
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Also known as

British Medical Association Round the World Tour and Annual Meeting at Melbourne. 1935

Description

This amateur film, which has been edited semi-professionally with additional intertitles and maps to orientate the viewer, consists of footage shot on the BMA's World Tour. The party arrive in Fiji; they are greeted by a local band and native peoples dancing and fire-walking. (This material is duplicated on the Wellcome LIbrary's series). The party then disembark for Auckland, New Zealand. In Auckland, the city is seen to be prosperous; the building are described as being 'tall tabernacles of trade'. There are exterior views of St Matthews, the Old Mill in Symonds Street and Grafton Bridge. The film continues with part 4 of the other itinerary continuing to travel around New Zealand (a Maori welcome at Rotura and footage of bathing in the volcanic springs) and onto Australia - Sydney Harbour Bridge and various indigenous Australian wildlife and the Central Railway Station.

Publication/Creation

UK, c.1935.

Physical description

1 videodisc (DVD) (14:43 mins) : silent, black and white ; 12 cm.

Notes

This DVD is a copy of a film series retained by the BMA. The BMA funded the transfer and duplication of this material which has been loaned to the Wellcome Library.
This series of films (there are 6 in the collection) relate to the British Medical Association's Round the World Tour and Annual Meeting in Melbourne, 1935. This series is an alternative itinerary to that held in the Wellcome Library. The films appear to have been available to purchase as a customisable souvenir of the journey on a reel-by-reel basis. The key difference of route was that the outgoing journey left from Liverpool, England, and then travelled across Canada via Quebec, Toronto and Niagara.

Copyright note

Copyright previously held by British Medical Association and assigned to Wellcome in 2005

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