Invisible work – Conservation, Preservation and Restoration in an archive
Can you turn back time? Should you? We talk with film preservationists about the choices and the challenges involved in
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40 years of the New Zealand Film Archive
Forty years ago, the New Zealand Film Archive was born. It had only one full time employee, a cinephile named Jonathan Dennis, who had just returned from touring film archives in Europe to learn as much as he could about the work ahead.
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Old frames: the nitrate wind through
Each year the nitrate film collection of Ngā Taonga is ‘wound through’ as an essential part of its safe keeping.
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Did Robert Steele’s Missing Movies Go Up in Flames?
As part of our search for the missing early films of Robert Steele, we received a slew of tips and
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Seen on screen
In the days before social media, selfies, online baby photo albums and website competitions, there were still plenty of ways
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Turning the pages on New Zealand screens
Many pre-existing legends, indigenous oral histories, short stories and novels have been adapted into moving image and sound recordings. In
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Archive Fives – Film
What are the inner workings of an audiovisual archive? Who are the people that do the actual archiving? Archive Fives
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Film archaeology
I’m sitting at a film winding bench with Jo Dixon-Didier, a Ngā Taonga Collection Developer who specialises in film. We’re
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A Petone Family Mystery
A film from our collection has recently been scanned and uploaded to our online catalogue. It has been given the
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The history of history: New Zealand Wars Cinema and the Archives
Was Rewi’s Last Stand marketed in relation to WWII? What did American audiences make of Utu? Who played all the extra soldiers in Utu? What was in the lost 49 minutes of Rewi’s Last Stand? Research student Caitlin Lynch writes about her use of Ngā Taonga’s documentation archives for her Honours dissertation.
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