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Film archaeology

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

Since late last year, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision has worked with Downtown City Mission (DCM) Wellington to provide monthly

Life doesn’t get much harder than it was in the Ōtaki Gorge at the start of last century. The land

It’s ski season! Take a look at this short compilation of how people hit the slopes in the 1920s and

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

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

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

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

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

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