Archiving Practice

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.

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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.

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Te Ao Pāpāho Māori – He Ara Hou (Māori Media Sector – Shift Options)

July 28, 2020July 27, 2020 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments archiving, He Ara Hou, Māori media, pātaka

Pānuihia mā te reo Māori Te Ao Pāpāho Māori – He Ara Hou (Māori Media Sector – Shift Options) is

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Making connections in Kānata

June 1, 2020January 27, 2021 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Canada, CBC, conference, Gareth Seymour, SICC

Our Kaupapa Māori Gareth Seymour was the recipient of the 2019 Paul Reynolds No Numpties Grant. He travelled to Canada

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Ngā Taonga Goes to Hollywood

June 10, 2019June 10, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Academy of Motion Picture, Disney, documentation, Documenting Cinema, Film Librarians’ Conference, Los Angeles, Morrow Productions, Tracy White

After an entire day of travelling, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision’s Documentation Archivist Tracy White had arrived in Los Angeles.

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Music Month and the Guitar Parade

May 6, 2019May 7, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1950s, 1958, Christchurch, Frances Liebert, Guitar Parade, lacquer discs, Liebert, Maurice Liebert, music, Shellac

The lights go down and the crowd grows quiet. On stage are dozens of children and young people with guitars,

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Working through the boxes

May 1, 2019May 6, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments behind the scenes, vaults

Boxes and boxes and boxes. Archives collect a huge amount of material – it’s all part of caring for the

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Tied up in black tape

April 8, 2019April 12, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 1 Comment 1-inch, analogue, Beta, magnetic tape, television archiving, U-matic, video

By David Klein. Adam Sondej is a big fan of videotape. Most of his career has involved working with the

Do you recognise this bowling and tennis club pavilion? Screen grab from The Land We Live In (1919)

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An archival mystery to solve

February 15, 2019March 28, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments bowling club, mystery, tennis, The Land We Live In, Wellington

A version of this article was originally published in Ōtaki Today. (Spoiler alert! The club has now been identified –

Archiving Practice Film NZ History

The history of history: New Zealand Wars Cinema and the Archives

December 24, 2018January 30, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Alfred Hill, film, filmmaking, Geoff Murphy, Jonathan Dennis Library, NZ history, Ramai Hayward, research tips, Rewi's Last Stand, River Queen, Rudall Hayward, The Last Stand, Utu, Vincent Ward

Was Rewi’s Last Stand marketed in relation to WWII? What did American audiences make of Utu? Who played all the extra soldiers in Utu? What was in the lost 49 minutes of Rewi’s Last Stand? Research student Caitlin Lynch writes about her use of Ngā Taonga’s documentation archives for her Honours dissertation.

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