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Film NZ History

The Blackie Collection: a window into mid-century Tauranga

January 24, 2023January 26, 2023 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, film, film preservation, Norman Blackie, Tauranga

Ngā Taonga recently completed an exciting film preservation project, at the request of Tauranga City Libraries, to digitally preserve 18 charming short films by Tauranga filmmaker Norman Blackie (1899-1993).

Behind the scenes Film NZ History

Introducing the Norm Hatch Collection

June 13, 2022June 15, 2022 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1940s, film, film preservation, norm hatch collection, Wellington, WWII

Between June 1942 and November 1943, around 21,000 US Marines arrived in the Wellington region to prepare for or recover from combat in the Pacific. They were among about 50,000 American servicemen who would be posted in New Zealand during World War 2, an event that would have a lasting impact on local culture.

Invisible work – Conservation, Preservation and Restoration in an archive

November 2, 2021February 6, 2022 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments David Klein, film, film preservation, Patu!

Can you turn back time? Should you? We talk with film preservationists about the choices and the challenges involved in

Archiving Practice Behind the scenes Film

40 years of the New Zealand Film Archive

March 31, 2021April 7, 2021 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, film, film archiving, film preservation, Jane Paul, Jonathan Dennis, Radio New Zealand, TVNZ

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.

Archiving Practice Behind the scenes Film

Old frames: the nitrate wind through

March 30, 2021April 13, 2021 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 2 Comments behind the scenes, film, film preservation, nitrate film, silent film, WWI

Each year the nitrate film collection of Ngā Taonga is ‘wound through’ as an essential part of its safe keeping.

The Mangawhai Women’s Festival

October 9, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments film preservation, Fiona Niccol, Mangawhai, 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

Film Television

Spring – The Uncertain Season

October 5, 2016November 29, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1960s, film preservation, Shirley Maddock, sound technology, spring, television

What does the coming of spring call to mind for you? For Shirley Maddock, the filmmaker behind The Uncertain Season (1962), a

The Battle of the Somme

September 1, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 8 Comments 1910s, Battle of the Somme, British High Commission, film preservation, Imperial War Museums, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, World War I, World War One

This year marks the centenary of the Battle of the Somme. Imperial War Museums (IWM) and members of the First

Rewind NZ

December 21, 2015February 9, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1980s, 2010s, Andrew Armitage, Aro Video, collecting, David Sommerfield, Diane McAllen, film, film archiving, film preservation, Louise McCrone, Rewind This, VHS, VHS store, Wellington

By Diane McAllen (Digital Programme Developer, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) Earlier this year we screened Rewind This (2013), an

World Day for Audiovisual Heritage: Making WWI Material Available for Third Party Requests

October 29, 2015November 13, 2015 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1910s, 2010s, film archiving, film preservation, footage supply, media use of footage, UNESCO, World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, World War One, WW1, WWI

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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