1960s – Gauge

All the Hits and More

May 10, 2022May 10, 2022 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 6 Comments 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 1XH, 1ZB, 2ZC, Gareth Watkins, Listener, music, New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation, NZBC, Peter Sinclair, radio, Radio New Zealand

By Gareth Watkins (Radio Collection Developer, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision has recently acquired from

DON’T LET IT GET YOU – The story behind the sign

December 28, 2021January 5, 2022 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1960s, celebrity, Diane Pivac, Film Archive cafe, Howard Morrison, interview, John O'Shea, Kiri te Kanawa, Musicals, Pacific Films, Rotorua, Wellington Art

The classic Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision ‘Don’t Let It Get You’ (Mary-Louise Browne, 2010) artwork has delighted viewers for

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The last days of the ‘6 o’clock swill’

August 17, 2017August 18, 2017 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1960s, alcohol, culture, politics, Radio New Zealand, Referendum, Sarah Johnston

By Sarah Johnston (Senior Client Access Liaison – Takawaenga ā-Iwi Matua, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) New Zealand’s infamous

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50 years of Decimal Currency

July 7, 2017October 26, 2017 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1960s, 1967, cents, decimal currency, dollars, new zealand, pence, pounds, Sarah Johnston, shillings, sterling

By Sarah Johnston (Senior Client Access Liaison – Takawaenga ā-Iwi Matua, Nga Taonga Sound & Vision) The New Zealand dollar

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Solving a Mystery: The Ahipara Women’s Fire Brigade

March 21, 2017May 6, 2021 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 2 Comments 1960s, Agnes Rakich, Ahipara, Api Kīngi, Doris Hales, firefighters, Grace Matiu, Harriet Pure, Hinemoa Te Paa, Jackie Saunders, Joyce Hunt, Keith Bracey, Lawrence Wharerau, Linda Curie, Mary Hanlon, Museum at Te Ahu Heritage, mystery, Northland, NZBC, on Women in Fire and Emergency New Zealand, Peggy Adams, Te Rūnanga o Te Rarawa, Town and Around, women

– By Lawrence Wharerau (Kaiwhakataki: Programme Coordinator, Māori, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) I have an affinity with Northland –

Historic Radio Reflections on Waitangi Day Through the Decades

February 6, 2017February 10, 2017 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1960s, 1970s, Apirana Ngata, New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation, Ngā Tamatoa, NZBC, radio, Royal tour, royal visit, Sarah Johnston, sound, Turi Carroll, Waitangi Day

To mark Waitangi Day we have uploaded some historic radio coverage of our national day to our online collections catalogue.

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Hilda Brodie Smith

December 19, 2016May 7, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1960s, amateur film, Cine Society, film, Hilda Brodie Smith, Porirua, Radio New Zealand, Richard Falkner, Wellington

Hilda Brodie Smith, of Porirua, wrote, directed and starred in a number of rather incredible documentaries during the 1960s. Her work

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US Presidents – The Kiwi Connection

November 9, 2016December 19, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1960s, 1990s, 2010s, Bill Clinton, Christchurch, election, Hillary Clinton, John F. Kennedy, Keith Holyoake, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Morning Report, NZBC, politics, president, Queenstown, radio, United States, Vietnam War, Wellington, World War II, WWII

With the results from the United States presidential election due to start coming in later today, we thought it a

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Moving Pictures Arrive in New Zealand

October 12, 2016October 7, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1890s, 1960s, Alwyn Owen, Anabelle Moore Whitford, Auckland, Charles Godfrey, dance, Eugen Sandow, Marion Rowe, music, nitrate film, projection, silent film, Southland, Thomas Edison, Timaru, Vaudeville, Violet Capstick Donaldson, Wellington, Ziegfield Follies

120 years ago, on 13 October 1896, New Zealanders first got their chance to see moving pictures, when the first

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Spring – The Uncertain Season

October 5, 2016November 29, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1960s, film preservation, Shirley Maddock, sound technology, spring, television

What does the coming of spring call to mind for you? For Shirley Maddock, the filmmaker behind The Uncertain Season (1962), a

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