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Film NZ History Sound

Moving Pictures Arrive in New Zealand

October 12, 2016October 7, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1890s, 1960s, Alwyn Owen, Anabelle Moore Whitford, Auckland, Charles Godfrey, dance, Eugen Sandow, Marion Rowe, music, nitrate film, projection, silent film, Southland, Thomas Edison, Timaru, Vaudeville, Violet Capstick Donaldson, Wellington, Ziegfield Follies

120 years ago, on 13 October 1896, New Zealanders first got their chance to see moving pictures, when the first

Projecting Film Today: An Interview with Projectionist Oscar Halberg

May 4, 2015August 23, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 8 Comments 1990s, 2010s, acetate film, cinema advertising, digital technologies, Ellen Pullar, film care, film projectors, Motion Picture Handbook, nitrate film, Oscar Halberg, polyester film, projection

This post belongs to a two-part series. Read the first part, Projecting Film 100 Years Ago: The Motion Picture Handbook,

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Audio Curios: Country Cinema in the 1930s

April 29, 2015November 12, 2015 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1930s, Audio Curios, Gareth Watkins, John Kendrick, Kim Hill, nitrate film, projection

John Kendrick remembers his first job with Country Cinemas in the 1930s (Saturday Morning with Kim Hill, Radio New Zealand,

Projecting Film 100 Years Ago: The Motion Picture Handbook

April 23, 2015February 22, 2017 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1910s, cinema advertising, Ellen Pullar, F. H. Richardson, film care, film projectors, Motion Picture Handbook, nitrate film, projection, silent film

– By Ellen Pullar (Digital Programme Developer – Website, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) This post belongs to a two-part

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The Dog’s got Bite

October 8, 2014March 29, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 4 Comments 1970s, DCP, projection, Roger Donaldson, Sam Neill, Sleeping Dogs

We’re so excited to be screening Sleeping Dogs at a quality standard never before seen, we’ve let our enthusiasm off the leash…