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Old films from around the world

One of the pioneering narrative filmmakers was Alice Guy-Blaché. She told stories that followed characters and developed across multiple scenes.

Lacquer discs form the heart of the Ngā Taonga audio collection – we have thousands of them. They were the

The footage is inconspicuous enough. Two ships are docked in Wellington Harbour, Mount Victoria can just be seen edging into

I’m sitting at a film winding bench with Jo Dixon-Didier, a Ngā Taonga Collection Developer who specialises in film. We’re

Since late last year, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision has worked with Downtown City Mission (DCM) Wellington to provide monthly

Life doesn’t get much harder than it was in the Ōtaki Gorge at the start of last century. The land

It’s ski season! Take a look at this short compilation of how people hit the slopes in the 1920s and

Imagine it’s the early 1940s and an Army truck crosses the sands of Northern Africa, comes to a halt and

Ko 2019 Te Tau o Ngā Reo Taketake o Te Ao. He kohinga nui ā Ngā Taonga kei roto i

A film from our collection has recently been scanned and uploaded to our online catalogue. It has been given the