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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The Mangawhai Women’s Festival
The Mangawhai Women’s Festival was held in February 1987. It was an outdoor festival for women and children only and
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Spring – The Uncertain Season
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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The Battle of the Somme
This year marks the centenary of the Battle of the Somme. Imperial War Museums (IWM) and members of the First
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World Day for Audiovisual Heritage: Making WWI Material Available for Third Party Requests
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 Day for Audiovisual Heritage: Sights and Sounds of WWI
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 Day for Audiovisual Heritage: Scanning WWI Films
World War One commemorations have provided the impetus for a number of projects at Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision. The
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