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DON’T LET IT GET YOU – The story behind the sign

December 28, 2021January 5, 2022 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1960s, celebrity, Diane Pivac, Film Archive cafe, Howard Morrison, interview, John O'Shea, Kiri te Kanawa, Musicals, Pacific Films, Rotorua, Wellington Art

The classic Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision ‘Don’t Let It Get You’ (Mary-Louise Browne, 2010) artwork has delighted viewers for

NZ History Sound Television

Rob Muldoon’s Pineapple Whip: The ‘Personality Cook Book’ – A 1971 Snapshot of New Zealand Broadcasting, Celebrity, Social and Culinary History

January 30, 2014April 12, 2021 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 10 Comments 1970s, advertising, Aunt Daisy, Barbara Basham, Barry Crump, Bert Sutcliffe, Bill Toft, Bishop Alan Pyatt, celebrity, Cherry Raymond, Colin Meads, cooking, Coronation Street, Doreen, food, George Nepia, Godfrey Bowen, Guy Ngan, Ian Cross, Ian Johnstone, Irvine Yardley, John A Lee, John Pascoe, Kate Harcourt, Liz Brook, Marama Martin, Maurice Smyth, Merv Smith, NZBC, Patricia Bartlett, Person to Person, Peter Brian, Peter Cape, Peter Snell, Petone, Petone Free Kindergarten, Philip Liner, Ralph Love, recipe books, Reg Chibnall, Robert Muldoon, Robin King, Sarah Davy, Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero, Stan Meads

– By Sarah Davy, Director, Collect [Division] Acquisition and Research, NZFA. Being a sucker for vintage recipe books, I recently

Film NZ History

Who’s For Hollywood? – Miss New Zealand 1927

December 12, 2013February 1, 2017 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1920s, Auckland, beauty pageants, celebrity, Dale Austen, Ellen Pullar, femininity, Hollywood, Miss New Zealand, national identity

By Ellen Pullar, NZFA Publicist This blog post looks back to 1927, at a little fizzer of a short film

Vilma Banky: A Long Way from Home

November 7, 2013March 29, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1920s, celebrity, documentation collection, Ellen Pullar, femininity, film stars, Hollywood, Keri de Carlo collection, promotional photographs, Vilma Banky

By Ellen Pullar, NZFA Publicist I am easily star-struck. I love movie stars. The glamour, the scandals, the larger-than-life “personalities,”