Volcanic Fury - White Island

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Volcanic Fury - White Island

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This 1952 film ventures off the Bay of Plenty coast to New Zealand’s most active volcano: White Island. The National Film Unit production joins a team of DSIR scientists, supposedly the first humans in more than a decade to to view this “fantastic laboratory of nature”. They camp in the ruins of a sulphur mill, where the acidic fumes have disintegrated factory engines. Steam in fumeroles destroys thermometers — “mapping the land brings the party to many a scene like this: a scene from The Inf...

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Video

Date created

1952

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national film unit / nfu / volcano / white island / sulphuric / sulphur / gannet / takapu / thermal / geothermal / dsir / scientist / bay of plenty / thermometer / fumarole / factory / gypsum

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