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All the Hits and More – Part 2

June 24, 2016March 27, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1950s, 1960s, 2YA, 2ZB, Auckland, Don MacRee, Eldred Stebbing, Esme Stephens, Listener, music, New Zealand Broadcasting Service, NZBS, Peter Downes, Phil Stebbing, radio, Rex Walden, Stebbing Recording, Steve McGough, Wellington

Broadcaster and historian Peter Downes wrote to us in response to a recent blog entry about the history of popular music

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NZ History Sound 

Tranny Bag: Take Your Radio to the Beach

March 3, 2016March 24, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1970s, 1ZM, Auckland, beach, Gareth Watkins, NZBC, NZME, radio, Radio Network, summer

By Gareth Watkins (Radio Collection Developer, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) May the sunny weather never end… Ngā Taonga Sound

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Art Film 

“Khal” Exhibition Opening Peformances

November 27, 2015December 21, 2015 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments art, Auckland, film, Helga Fassonaki, Khal, Paula Booker

– By Paula Booker (Programme Developer, Auckland) Khal, an ongoing project begun by Helga Fassonaki in Tabriz, Iran, is currently being

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Sound 

Audio Curios: Chatting with Anjalee the Elephant

June 10, 2015November 12, 2015 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 2010s, animals, Auckland, Audio Curios, elephants, Gareth Watkins, Niue, Radio New Zealand, Spectrum, Sri Lanka

Auckland Zoo’s elephant team leader Andrew Coers talks to Justin Gregory about how he communicates with Anjalee, an eight-year-old female

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Film 

Cold Ears, Warm Hearts: Presenting a Gardening Screening in the Auckland Silos on a Windy Pre-winters Night

April 30, 2015 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 2010s, Auckland, film programming, Garden with Soul, Growing the Future, Paula Booker

– By Paula Booker (Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision Programme Developer, Auckland)   Fascinated by the industrious green worlds that exist

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Film NZ History 

‘Shattered’ is lost!

June 27, 2014January 23, 2020 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 15 Comments Auckland, Auckland Town Hall, Jane Paul, mystery, Robert Steele

Jane Paul, our Community Screenings Coordinator is curating a World War One programme of films held by NZFA including some

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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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Film NZ History 

Scenes and Views Around New Zealand c. 1913

November 11, 2013March 29, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1913 Great Strike, Auckland, aviation, Dunedin, Fisher Monoplane, James Taylor, politics, shipping, Wellington

By James Taylor, NZFA Cataloguer / Researcher The 100th anniversary of the 1913 Great Strike, “one of New Zealand’s most

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