The blog of New Zealand’s Audiovisual Archive
In February 2021, I was taken on as an intern at Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision due to my established working relationship with Dame Gaylene Preston. I had been her personal assistant over the past five months, my work often veering into archival territory. By familiarising myself with the intricacies of her career and organising some of her personal digital archives, I had naturally gained a lot of relevant content knowledge.
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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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In November, Gareth Watkins, the Radio Collection Developer at Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision, visited a number of Australian archives
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World War One commemorations have provided the impetus for a number of projects at Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision. UNESCO’s World
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World War One commemorations have provided the impetus for a number of projects at Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision. UNESCO’s
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World War One commemorations have provided the impetus for a number of projects at Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision. The
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This week Documentation Archivist Mishelle Muagututi’a had the opportunity to appreciate the detail on a bronze plaque that once decorated
Read moreLast Wednesday evening we hosted a very special book launch at Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision: Emma Jean Kelly’s The Adventures
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