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This Pictorial Parade visits the Auckland Athletic Champs at Eden Park, where a water-logged grass track makes the going tough. Peter Snell wins the half-mile and Murray Halberg the three-mile ("you know Mother I think he'll win" deadpans the narrator); then heads to the Bay of Islands for the 1st Underwater Fishing Champs, where a 235lb stingray is the biggest catch; and finally to the Turn and Gymnastic Circle of Hamilton, an acrobatic family fundraising for a world tour by scrub-cutting and pie-baking: "no job is too small or too big."
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Television, 2008 (Full Length)
Clarke Gayford goes fishing in the extreme cold of Antarctica
Television, 2007 (Full Length)
A different kind of fishing coverage
Short Film, 1962 (Full Length)
Another Pictorial Parade film featuring Peter Snell
Short Film, 1964 (Full Length)
The story of Peter Snell up to the 1964 Tokyo Olympics
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Brian Ayres
Posted at 12.29AM - 28.05.2009
A big thanks to Lynton Diggle, Keith Gordon & Win Christie for drawing my attention to this great historic News Pictorial. I remember going to the Majestic theatre to see myself on the movies.
What a great buzz it has given me to see the newsreel again after 47 years when I was only 20 years of age.
Cheers Brian Ayres
Victoria Australia