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

Senior Archivist Sound Sandy Ditchburn working on a U Series disc

Archiving precious World War Two recordings

August 1, 2019August 29, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments lacquer discs, Mobile Unit, Mobile Unit truck, sound archiving, sound preservation, U Series, World War Two

Imagine it’s the early 1940s and an Army truck crosses the sands of Northern Africa, comes to a halt and

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Microphone in front of carving

Ngā Taonga Kōrero

International Year of Indigenous Languages

July 30, 2019July 30, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments International Year of Indigenous Language, Ngā Taonga Kōrero, te reo Māori, United Nations

Ko 2019 Te Tau o Ngā Reo Taketake o Te Ao. He kohinga nui ā Ngā Taonga kei roto i

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A Petone Family Mystery

July 8, 2019August 1, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 16mm, Eastbourne, film, mystery, Petone

A film from our collection has recently been scanned and uploaded to our online catalogue. It has been given the

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Collection Developer Ramarihi MacDougall

Preserving our audiovisual taonga

July 5, 2019July 16, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments collecting, Collection development, iwi radio, Māori Television, marae, Merata Mita, Te Karere, Waka Huia

Ka nui te ngākaunui o Ramarihi MacDougall ki tana tūranga mahi e kapo haere nei ia i ngā hua a

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A new look at the old Luna Park

June 10, 2019June 10, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1920s, ARRISCAN, Auckland, Coubray Brothers, film scanning, Luna Park, Sydney, Ted Coubray

Imagine it’s the late 1920s near the Auckland waterfront and the joyful screams of thousands of amusement seekers ring out

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Archiving Practice

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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‘Merata’ around the world

June 9, 2019June 17, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Film premiere, Heperi Mita, Merata Mita, Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen, NZIFF

Filmmaker and Ngā Taonga archivist Heperi Mita took his documentary MERATA: How Mum Decolonised the Screen about pioneer filmmaker Merata Mita

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The earliest ‘Blue Smoke’ recording

June 8, 2019June 11, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Blue Smoke, Chris Bourke, Jesse Mulligan, Otago University, Otago University Sextet, Pixie Williams, Ruru Karaitiana, Sarah Johnston, TANZA

Research in the Sound Archives at Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision during New Zealand Music Month has confirmed a recording

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He maimai aroha mā Hekenukumai – Sir Hector Busby

May 13, 2019June 7, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Hekenukumai Ngāiwi Pūhipi, Kupe: Voyaging by the Stars, navigator, Ngāti Kahu, obituary, Sir Hec, Sir Hector Busby, Sir Hekenukumai Busby, Te Aurere, Te Rarawa, waka builder, waka carver

Tā Hekenukumai Ngāiwi Pūhipi KNZM, MBE – Te Rarawa, Ngāti Kahu. 1 August 1932 – 11 May 2019. Bridge builder,

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Vale Wharehuia Milroy

May 7, 2019May 21, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments New Zealand Geographic Board, obituary, Te Kōhanga Reo National Trust Board, Te Panekiretanga, Te Puni Kokiri, Te Wharehuia Milroy, Waitangi Tribunal

Auē auē taukuri e… Kua hinga tētahi o ngā mātanga reo rongonui o Aotearoa, o te ao Māori anō hoki.

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