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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…

Film NZ History

Hilda Brodie Smith

December 19, 2016May 7, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1960s, amateur film, Cine Society, film, Hilda Brodie Smith, Porirua, Radio New Zealand, Richard Falkner, Wellington

Hilda Brodie Smith, of Porirua, wrote, directed and starred in a number of rather incredible documentaries during the 1960s. Her work

Film NZ History Uncategorized

Around the World in an Austin 7 (1928-1931)

November 4, 2016December 7, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 13 Comments 1920s, 1930s, Austin 7, Australia, car, Cook Islands, film, Hector McQuarrie, Jane Paul, lost film, maritime, New Guinea, newsreel, Richard B. Mathews, Rudall Hayward, Torres Strait

– By Jane Paul (Community Programme Coordinator, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) Richard B. Mathews (from Kaitaia) and Hector McQuarrie

Film

Hawke’s Bay on Film 1913 – 1985

July 12, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1910s, 1920s, 1970s, 1980s, 2010s, advertising, Alec Douglas Lambourne, amateur film, earthquake, film, Hastings, Jane Paul, Napier, Sir James Wattie, television, Travelling Film Show

– By Jane Paul (Community Programme Coordinator, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) Recently Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision and Historic

Film

Rewind NZ

December 21, 2015February 9, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1980s, 2010s, Andrew Armitage, Aro Video, collecting, David Sommerfield, Diane McAllen, film, film archiving, film preservation, Louise McCrone, Rewind This, VHS, VHS store, Wellington

By Diane McAllen (Digital Programme Developer, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) Earlier this year we screened Rewind This (2013), an

Art Film

“Khal” Exhibition Opening Peformances

November 27, 2015December 21, 2015 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments art, Auckland, film, Helga Fassonaki, Khal, Paula Booker

– By Paula Booker (Programme Developer, Auckland) Khal, an ongoing project begun by Helga Fassonaki in Tabriz, Iran, is currently being

Film

The Majestic Theatre Bronze Plaque

October 23, 2015November 12, 2015 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 2 Comments 1920s, 2010s, documentation, documentation collection, film, film archiving, Majestic Theatre, Mishelle Muagututi'a, movie theatres, Wellington

This week Documentation Archivist Mishelle Muagututi’a had the opportunity to appreciate the detail on a bronze plaque that once decorated

Film NZ History

Adventures of Jonathan Dennis Book Launch

September 30, 2015September 30, 2015 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1980s, 2010s, book, Diane Pivac, Emma Kelly, film, film archiving, Jonathan Dennis, Lindsay Shelton, Ray Edmondson, Rebecca Elvy, The Adventures of Jonathan Dennis

Last Wednesday evening we hosted a very special book launch at Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision: Emma Jean Kelly’s The Adventures

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