This is a collection of random footage taken in Gisborne at the time I acquired my first movie camera in 1952: a Pathescope H 9.5mm: this footage is, by its very nature, experimental, but the potential quality of 9.5mm film seeps through.
Months of reading Amateur Cine World had persuaded me that the quality of this unusual gauge was equivalent to the much more expensive 16mm - there was little difference in the final exposed frame size. Besides, the cost of the equipment - camera and projector - was just within reach of a 14 year old schoolboy's pocket money.
The tragedy for the schoolboy cameraman has been the loss of extensive footage somewhere, somehow: I'm missing scenes I shot in 9.5mm at the 1953 Tangiwai rail disaster, filming alongside the British Paramount newsreel cameraman, and substantial sequences shot in early 1954 at Milford Sound, the Routeburn Valley, Manapouri and the Royal Tour at Invercargill.