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{{Infobox film
| name           = The Departure of the Second Contingent for the Boer War
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| based_on       = Documentary
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| cinematography = W. H. Bartlett
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| distributor    = [[Alfred Henry Whitehouse]]
| released       = {{film date|df=yes|1900}}
| runtime        = 1 min 14 sec
| country        = New Zealand
| language       = Silent
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| video1 = [https://ngataonga.org.nz/set/item/382 The Departure of the Second Contingent for the Boer War] (The NZ Archive of Film)
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'''''The Departure of the Second Contingent for the Boer War''''' was a 1900 New Zealand documentary silent film.<ref name=DNZB/>
This is the oldest surviving New Zealand [[film]] and was produced by [[Alfred Henry Whitehouse]].<ref name=DNZB/>
The earliest New Zealand films being from the first of December 1898, the [[opening of the Auckland Industrial and Mining Exhibition]],<ref>{{cite web |title=First movie shot in New Zealand |url=https://nzhistory.govt.nz/page/first-movie-shot-nz |website=New Zealand History |publisher=New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage |date=1 Dec 1898}}</ref> and Boxing Day that year, [[Uhlan (horse)|Uhlan]] winning the [[Auckland Cup]] at [[Ellerslie Racecourse]].<ref name=DNZB>{{cite web |last1=Sowry |first1=Clive |title=Whitehouse, Alfred Henry |url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/2w16/whitehouse-alfred-henry |website=Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand |publisher=Dictionary of New Zealand Biography |accessdate=13 October 2020 |date=1993}}</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb title|11873422}}
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[[Category:1900s New Zealand films]]
[[Category:1900 films]]
[[Category:1900s short documentary films]]
[[Category:1900 in New Zealand]]
[[Category:Black-and-white documentary films]]
[[Category:Films set in New Zealand]]
[[Category:New Zealand short documentary films]]
[[Category:New Zealand silent short films]]
[[Category:1900 documentary films]]
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