Film
Explore stories from Aotearoa New Zealand’s rich and diverse film history.
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9 June 2015
While the 80s brought us many things we’d rather forget – bad perms, stonewash and shoulder pads – it’s also left us with a legacy of terrific family films.
4 May 2015
We chat to Oscar Halberg, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision’s projectionist, about the ins-and-outs of his job.
23 April 2015
What was it like to own a movie theatre in 1915? How were films projected 100 years ago?
14 April 2015
Most people know about the Featherston Military Camp through the infamous World War II incident in 1943, when 48 Japanese POWs and one Kiwi guard were killed.
16 February 2015
In 2004 Andrew Laing from Churton Park rang us to ask about getting the videotape of his January 1979 wedding to Janice transferred.
19 November 2014
In part two of our guest blog from Russell-based local historian Lindsay Alexander, the tale of a 1930s documentary filmmaking venture continues.
16 October 2014
At 5.50pm on the 16th of October 1936, Rotorua-born aviator Jean Batten landed in Auckland – she’d successfully completed the first ever direct flight from England to NZ.
2 October 2014
Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision will be joining many of New Zealand’s other heritage organisations in reflecting on, and remembering, the First World War
22 August 2014
This month marks 100 years since the release of Hinemoa, New Zealand’s first feature film
15 August 2014
The image to the right is a frame enlargement from a 1917 film New Zealand Boys in Sling Camp.
30 May 2014
A look at some of the war documentary resources in the Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision collection.
15 May 2014
Virginia Callanan tells us about recent preservation work on Rudall Hayward’s The Last Stand.
23 April 2014
Morrow Productions was a film production company founded in 1951 and based in Levin.
23 April 2014
Peach Wemyss Astor made both television and radio productions, and also produced a diverse and prolific output of advertising content from 1960s to the 1980s.
11 April 2014
Last week' Reel Life in Rural New Zealand' won the Most Innovative Public Programme category in Museums Aotearoa’s 2014 New Zealand Museum Awards.
14 March 2014
The New Zealand Film Archive and Archives New Zealand recently opened New Zealand’s first specialised nitrate film vault
6 March 2014
Peter Coates is a former director and producer for the NZBC and TVNZ, from 1969 through to the 1990s.
27 February 2014
On February 1st the Travelling Film Show was in Christchurch, at the Pallet Pavillion.
23 January 2014
The King’s Theatre in Wellington was the first permanent and purpose-built movie theatre in New Zealand. It opened with much fanfare on 16 March 1910.
12 December 2013
This blog post looks back to 1927, at a little fizzer of a short film called Who’s For Hollywood: Series 2.
11 November 2013
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the 1913 Great Strike, “one of New Zealand’s most violent and disruptive industrial confrontations” (nzhistory.net.nz)
7 November 2013
Banky was a big deal during the 1920s, with the Hungarian actress starred opposite Valentino in The Eagle (1925) and Son of the Sheik (1926).
