film archiving

40 years of the New Zealand Film Archive

March 31, 2021April 7, 2021 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, film, film archiving, film preservation, Jane Paul, Jonathan Dennis, Radio New Zealand, TVNZ

Forty years ago, the New Zealand Film Archive was born. It had only one full time employee, a cinephile named Jonathan Dennis, who had just returned from touring film archives in Europe to learn as much as he could about the work ahead.

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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

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Audio Archiving in Australia

December 15, 2015February 10, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 2010s, archiving ethics, Australia, digitisation, film archiving, Gareth Watkins, National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, radio, sustainability

In November, Gareth Watkins, the Radio Collection Developer at Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision, visited a number of Australian archives

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World Day for Audiovisual Heritage: Making WWI Material Available for Third Party Requests

October 29, 2015November 13, 2015 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1910s, 2010s, film archiving, film preservation, footage supply, media use of footage, UNESCO, World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, World War One, WW1, WWI

World War One commemorations have provided the impetus for a number of projects at Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision. UNESCO’s World

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World Day for Audiovisual Heritage: Sights and Sounds of WWI

October 28, 2015December 8, 2015 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1910s, 2010s, film archiving, film preservation, film scanning, Pathe, repartriation, UNESCO, website, World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, World War One, WW1, WWI

World War One commemorations have provided the impetus for a number of projects at Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision. UNESCO’s

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World Day for Audiovisual Heritage: Scanning WWI Films

October 27, 2015January 11, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 2 Comments 1910s, 2010s, film archiving, film preservation, film scanning, UNESCO, World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, World War One, WW1, WW100

World War One commemorations have provided the impetus for a number of projects at Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision. The

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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

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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