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Dunedin Then and Now

February 23, 2021March 2, 2021 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Dunedin, filming, Otago Settlers Museum, Then and Now, Toitū, Troy Coutts

Archives and museums are great at showing changes in a city and allowing audiences to compare the past with their

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Behind the scenes Film Mystery 

Did Robert Steele’s Missing Movies Go Up in Flames?

December 1, 2020December 1, 2020 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1940s, A Mild Case of Murder, Antoinette Bertram, Auckland, Ethel Gabriel, film, film noir, Freda Stark, Gracie Fields, Happy Honeymoon – A Near Tragedy, mystery, Robert Steele, sheila mcguire, The Wife Who Knew, WWII

As part of our search for the missing early films of Robert Steele, we received a slew of tips and

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End of an era at Taranaki Street

June 9, 2020June 5, 2020 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments behind the scenes, COVID, moving, Taranaki St

Moving out of their long-term premises proved to both a logistical and emotional challenge for Ngā Taonga staff – and

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Cook Islands archivists stay cool in crisis

May 19, 2020May 15, 2020 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Cook Islands, Kate Ngatokorua, pandemic, Susan Love

What do you do when you’re working on a special archiving project in another country and a pandemic hits? If

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Behind the scenes Sound 

Tracking Chris Knox: A Research Journey

May 12, 2020May 14, 2020 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Alexander Turnbull Library, Chris Knox, music month, National Library, Not Given Lightly, research, tape

By Joanna Szczepanski, Ngā Taonga Radio/Music Team Leader and Dr Aleisha Ward, Research Librarian, Music at the Alexander Turnbull Library

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Glimpsing the future – a report from the 2019 IASA & JTS Conferences

May 5, 2020May 12, 2020 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments conference, Hilversum, IASA, International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives, Jamie Lean, Joint Technical Symposium, JTS, Netherlands, Todd Barker

Conferences allow those that work in a sector to connect with colleagues, swap notes and learn about novel approaches. They

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Fresh new scans

April 28, 2020April 17, 2020 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 2 Comments before and after, film comparison, film scanning, Grand School Carnival, Happy Altitudes in New Zealand's Southern Alps, scanner, The World's First Lady Mayor

Sometimes you really need to take a second look. Modern film scanning technology can produce some incredible results with great

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Ngā Taonga staff #WorkingFromHome

April 7, 2020July 3, 2020 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments behind the scenes, working from home

Due to the Level 4 lockdown, all Ngā Taonga staff are working from home. We caught up with a few

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Repatriating memory and the Korean War 

April 6, 2020April 6, 2020 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Gow, Hitchings, Korea, Korean War, Marine Battleground, repatriation, South Korea

How much can a country know about itself without a record of its history? For a variety of reasons, films,

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Ngāti Porou intern Lady Pokai

March 16, 2020March 11, 2020 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 2 Comments intern, Lady Pokai, Ngāti Porou

Ko Hikurangi te maunga Ko Waiapu te awa Ko Tu Au Au te tipuna whare Ko Horouta te waka Ko

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