Alex Porter

NZ History Sound 

Māori for Beginners

February 9, 2017August 21, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 6 Comments 1970s, 2010s, Alex Porter, Christchurch, New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation, NZBC, radio, Radio New Zealand, te reo Māori

– By Alexandra Porter (Audio Conservator, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision)  Tēnā koutou katoa Ko Alexandra Porter tōku ingoa Nō

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NZ History Sound 

Octavius Francis Harwood – A Journey of Family Discovery

May 31, 2016August 3, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 40 Comments 1830s, 1840s, 1940s, 200s, Alex Porter, digitisation, family, genealogy, maritime, Mobile Unit, New Zealand Broadcasting Service, NZBS, Otago, radio, Waikouaiti

By Alexandra Porter (Audio Conservator, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) Last year I was digitising a 1948 Mobile Recording Unit

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NZ History Sound 

Coromandel Yodellers and the Royal Navy – New Digitisations from the Mobile Unit Project

February 26, 2016March 3, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1940s, Alex Porter, Brown Sisters, Camilla Wheeler, Coromandel, dance, England, HMS Indefatigable, Kilbirnie Nurse’s Home, maritime, Mobile Unit, Mobile Unit truck, NZBS, Sarah Johnston, Tangiura Brown, Te Waimarie Brown, Tex Morton, UNESCO, waiata, Wellington, World War II

By Sarah Johnston, Camilla Wheeler and Alex Porter (Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) One of Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision’s

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NZ History Sound 

NZBS Mobile Unit Collection: Tahakopa Sawmill

December 17, 2015January 12, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1940s, Alex Porter, digitisation, forestry, Mobile Unit, Mobile Unit truck, NZBS, radio, sound preservation

Audio Conservator Alex Porter is currently working on a project to digitise and describe the New Zealand Broadcasting Service Mobile Unit

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Sound 

Preserving the Mobile Unit Collection

November 9, 2015February 26, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 2 Comments 1940s, 1950s, Alex Porter, Camilla Wheeler, Geoff Hagget, Leo Fowler, Mobile Unit, Mobile Unit truck, NZBS, radio

In September this year Audio Conservator Alex Porter and Cataloguer Camilla Wheeler embarked on a project to digitise and describe

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Film 

“Scruff,” a Short Film In-The-Making

June 29, 2015June 29, 2015 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 2010s, Alex Porter, behind the scenes, Christchurch, Ed Lust, film, filmmaking, fundraising, Scruff

Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision Audio Conservator Alex Porter has hidden talents. Outside of her day job as an archivist, she

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NZ History Sound 

Awatea Ship to Shore

February 24, 2015July 8, 2015 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 4 Comments 1930s, Alex Porter, Awatea, maritime, radio, ship, shipping

– By Alex Porter (Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision Audio Conservator) This ship to shore recording is possibly the first

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Film Sound 

Vincent Ward, As He Was in 1990

May 8, 2014March 29, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Alex Porter, Edge of The Earth, Morning Report, Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero, Vincent Ward

Alex Porter (SANTK Preservation Archivist) was lucky enough to meet Vincent Ward when he received his Honorary Doctorate at The

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Film 

The World According to Ward

May 1, 2014March 29, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 2 Comments A State of Siege, Alex Porter, Alien 3, Christchurch Wizard, film preservation, In Spring One Plants Alone, Map of the Human Heart, Rain of The Children, River Queen, Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero, The Navigator, University of Canterbury, Vincent Ward, What Dreams May Come

– By Alex Porter (SANTK Preservation Archivist) Whilst my colleagues hustled Christchurch crowds on April 14th to get their smart

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