The amazing home movie collection
The collection of Ngā Taonga holds thousands of home movies – ‘Personal Records’ as they are known. Hundreds of these
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Auckland: Then and Now
Following the success of our Wellington: Then and Now video in February, we sent our Digital Content Editor Troy Coutts
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Archive Fives – Documentation
What are the inner workings of an audiovisual archive? Who are the people that do the actual archiving? Archive Fives
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Making connections with Solomon Islands material
Ngā Taonga were fortunate to have Victoria University Pacific Studies intern Rebecca Chrystal on board for several months. Her final
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Paper cuts: paper-based audio tapes
Did you know some early audio recordings are stored on paper-based tape? Our sound archivist Grant McBride does and reports
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Sharing our collections with Kaumātua
Over the past 20 years, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision has shared a unique relationship with Gisborne-based health provider Tūranga
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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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One of the pioneering narrative filmmakers was Alice Guy-Blaché. She told stories that followed characters and developed across multiple scenes.
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‘The Queen of Crime’ – Ngaio Marsh
Lacquer discs form the heart of the Ngā Taonga audio collection – we have thousands of them. They were the
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The Pacific Prepares for War
The footage is inconspicuous enough. Two ships are docked in Wellington Harbour, Mount Victoria can just be seen edging into
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