ALEXANDER TURNBULL'S LIBRARY

From Film

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Year

1972

NFU Picture/Sheet No.

418

Technical details

Colour, 28 mins. 16mm, 1,024 ft.

Cat. Refs. 1973 p.17; 1977 p.26.

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Unknown

Full Description

A film is being made of the Library, and takes us through an ordinary day, showing us glimpses of the treasures - rare books, New Zealand and Pacific collection, manuscripts, and paintings - housed in the old brick building on Wellington's Bowen Street. We join the staff in their cataloguing, researching, and micro-filming, meet some of the people who use the Library, and discover something of its history. Finally we learn that the building is no longer safe, and is about to be moved from the path of a motorway, to the National Library of New Zealand.

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