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The amazing home movie collection

November 16, 2019November 18, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments family, home movie

The collection of Ngā Taonga holds thousands of home movies – ‘Personal Records’ as they are known. Hundreds of these

Growing up and blowing up with Geoff Murphy

November 15, 2018January 30, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments directing, family, film, Geoff Murphy, Goodbye Pork Pie, Heperi Mita, Hollywood, Last Outlaw, memoir, Never Say Die, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory

To coincide with our current season Flashbacks with Geoff Murphy: A Retrospective Trip, Heperi Mita shares some personal memories of growing up with a movie director for a father. And not just any movie director…

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Octavius Francis Harwood – A Journey of Family Discovery

May 31, 2016August 3, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 41 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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Audio Curios: Taihape’s new Mosque

July 16, 2015November 12, 2015 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 1 Comment 2010s, Audio Curios, Constable Saifudin Abu, family, Gareth Watkins, Islam, Lynda Chanwai-Earle, mosque, radio, Radio New Zealand, Radio New Zealand National, Taihape, Voices

Constable Saifudin Abu talks to Lynda Chanwai-Earle about the building of a new masjid in Taihape, to provide sanctuary for