Film
Explore stories from Aotearoa New Zealand’s rich and diverse film history.
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13 July 2020
Matariki is the Māori new year and an important time in New Zealand
16 June 2020
We’ve asked staff to describe an item from the collection that they really like. Here’s Collection Developer Siobhán Garrett.
28 April 2020
Modern film scanning technology can produce some incredible results with great image detail and contrast.
6 April 2020
How much can a country know about itself without a record of its history?
3 February 2020
Our national day, Waitangi Day, commemorates the signing of one of the founding documents for modern Aotearoa.
16 November 2019
Ngā Taonga holds thousands of home movies, many of which can be viewed in our online collection and provide a view of New Zealand society over the decades.
4 November 2019
Travel through time as we celebrate Auckland Heritage Festival 2019. ‘Then and Now’ 100 years of Auckland on film.
10 October 2019
Over the past 20 years, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision has shared a unique relationship with Gisborne-based health provider Tūranga Health, Te Hauora o Tūranganui-a-Kiwa.
9 October 2019
Read about and watch the official recording of the Mangawhai Women’s Festival, 1987.
10 June 2019
Imagine it’s the late 1920s near the Auckland waterfront and the joyful screams of thousands of amusement seekers ring out over the Waitemata Harbour.
9 June 2019
Filmmaker and Ngā Taonga archivist Heperi Mita - his documentary MERATA: How Mum Decolonised the Screen.
28 March 2019
It’s hard to overstate how important Bill Gosden is to New Zealand film culture.
27 February 2019
To mark Wellington Anniversary Day on January 21 2019, our Digital Content Editor Troy Coutts went out for a spot of filming.
4 February 2019
So long cinema, and thanks for all the screenings. For more than 14 years, the cinema at the Wellington office of Ngā Taonga hosted thousands of screenings.
21 December 2018
Heperi Mita reflects on the contribution of New Zealand International Film Festival Director Bill Gosden, following the announcement that he will retire in March 2019.
13 December 2018
Researcher Caitlin Lynch on 'The New Zealand Wars', how they have been influenced the film industry.
15 November 2018
My earliest memory of my father is of him blowing up a house in Ponsonby for his film 'Never Say Die'.
18 September 2018
PhD student, Emily Kate Timms from the the University of Leeds visits Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision.
9 August 2018
'Te Taki A Merata Mita – How Mum Decolonised The Screen' a film remembering influential Director/Producer Merata Mita.
16 July 2018
By Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision was formed from the amalgamation of the New Zealand Film Archive, the RNZ Sound Archives and the Television New Zealand Archive back in 2014.
16 February 2018
Ngā Taonga have created a new digital preservation transfer of 'A Daughter of Christchurch', one of legendary filmmaker Rudall Hayward’s 1920s “community comedies".
29 May 2017
There is something special about recordings of live music events, they capture forever an ephemeral moment.
21 March 2017
One of my favourite places on earth is Ahipara, by the sea at the southern end of Te Oneroa-a-Tōhe (Ninety Mile Beach) and sheltered by the Tauroa Peninsula to the west.
19 January 2017
70 years ago, 19 January 1947, the trans-Tasman passenger liner TSMV Wanganella hit Barrett Reef in Wellington Harbour.
19 December 2016
Hilda Brodie Smith, of Porirua, wrote, directed and starred in a number of rather incredible documentaries during the 1960s.
29 November 2016
A look at the long and rocky history of transportation between Canterbury and Marlborough.
4 November 2016
The story of two kiwis who travelled the globe in a baby Austin.
12 October 2016
120 years ago New Zealand screened it's first film in Auckland.
27 July 2016
Leading up to the Summer Olympics in Rio here are some golden sporting moments from Aotearoa’s past.
12 July 2016
Screening of a compilation of films focused on Hawke’s Bay history, part of our Travelling Film Show.
29 February 2016
Amateur Cine World, the English film enthusiasts’ magazine, is well-represented in Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision’s Documentation Collection.
28 February 2016
To fly around the world in 1953 took just under 24 hours, Christchurch to London.
9 February 2016
Heperi Mita reflects on attending the Sundance Film Festival to represent his mother at the unveiling of the Sundance Institute’s Merata Mita Fellowship.
28 January 2016
Going to the movies was a favourite pastime for New Zealanders prior to the First World War, and over the course of the war it became even more popular.
