1920s – Page 2 – Gauge

Competitions Film

“Ticket to Hollywood” Screen Test Competition

May 21, 2014March 29, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1920s, acting, Bush Cinderella, Dale Austen, Francois Delsarte, photo competition, silent film, Ticket to Hollywood, Venus of the South Seas, WELTEC

Are you ready for your close-up? Film a silent movie screen test of yourself enacting one to four of the

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Film NZ History

Who’s For Hollywood? – Miss New Zealand 1927

December 12, 2013February 1, 2017 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1920s, Auckland, beauty pageants, celebrity, Dale Austen, Ellen Pullar, femininity, Hollywood, Miss New Zealand, national identity

By Ellen Pullar, NZFA Publicist This blog post looks back to 1927, at a little fizzer of a short film

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Vilma Banky: A Long Way from Home

November 7, 2013March 29, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1920s, celebrity, documentation collection, Ellen Pullar, femininity, film stars, Hollywood, Keri de Carlo collection, promotional photographs, Vilma Banky

By Ellen Pullar, NZFA Publicist I am easily star-struck. I love movie stars. The glamour, the scandals, the larger-than-life “personalities,”

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