Story: City children and youth

Watching movies

Children watch a Charlie Chaplin film in a Wellington cinema in 1951.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: 114/341/08

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Ben Schrader, City children and youth – City, suburbs and recreation, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/21963/watching-movies (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Ben Schrader, published 4 February 2010.