Gauge – Page 2 – The blog of New Zealand’s Audiovisual Archive

Auckland: Then and Now

Following the success of our Wellington: Then and Now video in February, we sent our Digital Content Editor Troy Coutts

What are the inner workings of an audiovisual archive? Who are the people that do the actual archiving? Archive Fives

Ngā Taonga were fortunate to have Victoria University Pacific Studies intern Rebecca Chrystal on board for several months. Her final

Did you know some early audio recordings are stored on paper-based tape? Our sound archivist Grant McBride does and reports

Over the past 20 years, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision has shared a unique relationship with Gisborne-based health provider Tūranga

The Mangawhai Women’s Festival was held in February 1987. It was an outdoor festival for women and children only and

One of the pioneering narrative filmmakers was Alice Guy-Blaché. She told stories that followed characters and developed across multiple scenes.

Lacquer discs form the heart of the Ngā Taonga audio collection – we have thousands of them. They were the

The footage is inconspicuous enough. Two ships are docked in Wellington Harbour, Mount Victoria can just be seen edging into

I’m sitting at a film winding bench with Jo Dixon-Didier, a Ngā Taonga Collection Developer who specialises in film. We’re