Rudall Hayward

A brief history of Māori cinema

April 21, 2020April 29, 2020 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Barry Barclay, Don Selwyn, film history, Māori, Māori cinema, Merata Mita, Ramai Hayward, Rudall Hayward, Taika Waititi

With the Māoriland Film Festival having to drastically reduce its programme due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Ngā Taonga wanted to

Archiving Practice Film NZ History

The history of history: New Zealand Wars Cinema and the Archives

December 24, 2018January 30, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Alfred Hill, film, filmmaking, Geoff Murphy, Jonathan Dennis Library, NZ history, Ramai Hayward, research tips, Rewi's Last Stand, River Queen, Rudall Hayward, The Last Stand, Utu, Vincent Ward

Was Rewi’s Last Stand marketed in relation to WWII? What did American audiences make of Utu? Who played all the extra soldiers in Utu? What was in the lost 49 minutes of Rewi’s Last Stand? Research student Caitlin Lynch writes about her use of Ngā Taonga’s documentation archives for her Honours dissertation.

Film NZ History

A Daughter of Christchurch and the Colour of Silent Film

February 16, 2018October 13, 2020 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments film tint, Rudall Hayward, silent film

Thanks to tinted film stock silent movies weren’t always black and white! Diane McAllen writes about a recent project to preserve Rudall Haywards ‘community comedy’ A Daughter of Christchurch in the vivid blues, pinks and oranges that would’ve been seen by audiences in the 1920s.