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E rere ana te mihi a Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision ki a koutou – Happy Holidays from Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision

15 Dec 2025
Nei rā a Ngā Taonga e tuku nei i ngā mihi nui hākoakoa i tēnei wāhanga o te tau ki a koutou ko tō whānau me ō hoa maha.
Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision wishes you a happy and playful holiday season with your whānau and friends.

Every year we make a holiday video to share something special from the collection. This year our film team preserved several charming home movies from the Goldsmith family, dating from the late 1920s to the 1940s.

Amateur filmmaker Bernard Harry Goldsmith captured many scenes of the family having fun together over the years, at a time when owning a home movie camera was still unusual. He also took some stunning footage of ruined buildings and tent villages in the immediate aftermath of the 1931 Hawkes Bay earthquake.

It was a privilege to digitally preserve and watch these films in 2025, and with the family’s permission we decided to use some of their vintage summer holiday footage to make our holiday video.