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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Growing up and blowing up with Geoff Murphy
To coincide with our current season Flashbacks with Geoff Murphy: A Retrospective Trip, Heperi Mita shares some personal memories of growing up with a movie director for a father. And not just any movie director…
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Hilda Brodie Smith
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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Around the World in an Austin 7 (1928-1931)
– By Jane Paul (Community Programme Coordinator, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) Richard B. Mathews (from Kaitaia) and Hector McQuarrie
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Hawke’s Bay on Film 1913 – 1985
– By Jane Paul (Community Programme Coordinator, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) Recently Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision and Historic
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“Khal” Exhibition Opening Peformances
– By Paula Booker (Programme Developer, Auckland) Khal, an ongoing project begun by Helga Fassonaki in Tabriz, Iran, is currently being
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