CAMERAS TO FILM ROYAL VISIT
N.Z. BUYS EQUIPMENT FROM GERMANY
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, July 15. A cable message from Berlin says that the New Zealand Government has bought 12 German cameras to film the Royal visit. The cameras will be shipped from Bavaria shortly. The Prime Minister’s Department in Wellington said to-day that the order for newsreel cameras was to meet part of the Government film unit’s requirements for additional plant and replacements.
Light newsreel cameras were not made in the United Kingdom, which itself was dependent on the Continent or the United States for cameras of this type, the department explained. The cameras were obtainable for sterling—the only alternative would have been an American type for the expenditure of dollars and at a greater price. The existing newsreel cameras used by the film unit were American made and were obtained during the war, but they were now wearing out.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25548, 16 July 1948, Page 8
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