Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero

Jazz at Shepheard’s Hotel, 1941

October 17, 2022October 19, 2022 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1940s, Egypt, Mobile Unit, music, New Zealand Broadcasting Service, NZ history, Sarah Johnston, Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero, World War Two, WWII

By sound history researcher Sarah Johnston In both World Wars of the twentieth century, New Zealand forces found themselves fighting

Behind the scenes Documentary Ngā Taonga Kōrero

Ngā Taonga Tuku Iho Episode 3: Tukuna Kia Rere

August 26, 2022August 26, 2022 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1990s, archiving ethics, Kahu Kutia, Khali Meari Materoa, matauranga maori, Nga Taona Tuku Iho, Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero, taonga maori

Heritage organisations like galleries, libraries, archives and museums (sometimes abbreviated to the GLAM sector) hold enormous amounts of mātauranga Māori

Sound

‘The Queen of Crime’ – Dame Ngaio Marsh

September 26, 2019November 9, 2021 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Early Years at School, lacquer discs, Ngaio Marsh, Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero, sound archiving

Lacquer discs form the heart of the Ngā Taonga audio collection – we have thousands of them. They were the

New Zealand representative rugby union team, New Zealand vs Britain, 1930

NZ History Uncategorized

Our oldest recorded sports broadcast – the All Blacks vs the British Lions, June 21, 1930

June 22, 2017June 22, 2017 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1930s, All Blacks, Audio Curios, broadcast, cantor, lions, nepia, radio, Radio New Zealand National, rugby, Sarah Johnston, Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero, Sports, tour

By Sarah Johnston (Senior Client Access Liaison – Takawaenga ā-Iwi Matua, Nga Taonga Sound & Vision) The first test between

NZ History Sound

Peter Downes: Early Radio Recordings and Archiving in Aotearoa New Zealand

March 22, 2016May 12, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 18 Comments 28th Māori Battalion, 2YA, Arch Curry, Asquith Thompson, Aunt Daisy, Aunt Gwen (Gwen Shepherd), Billy Hart, Bungin’ 'Em In, Chester Wilmot, Cicely Debenham, Edmund Hillary, Hello My Dearie, Jim Hartstonge, Jim Sullivan, L.G. Lukey, Lionel Sceats, Lord Bledisloe, Monte Cassino, National Film Unit, NZBC, On Parade, One Man's Family, Peter Downes, Professor Robert Jack, Queen Elizabeth II, Queen's Tour 1953, radio, Radio New Zealand, Rosemary Collier, Royal tour, Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero, sound preservation, sound technology, Tangiwai railway disaster, Television New Zealand, Uncle Bruce (Bruce Stennett), Wally Marshall, World War II, World War Two, WWII

Peter Downes has had a long and distinguished association with broadcasting and sound archiving in Aotearoa. In this presentation he

NZ History Sound

Was the ‘real’ Anzac biscuit… a gingernut?

May 22, 2014February 28, 2022 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 19 Comments baking, Camilla Wheeler, gingernuts, Helena Marion Barnard, Red Cross, Sarah Johnston, Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero, WWI

– By Camilla Wheeler and Sarah Johnston of Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero A 1965 radio interview held in

NZ History Sound

Mrs Barnard’s Gingernuts Recipe (and updated version)

May 22, 2014February 28, 2022 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 10 Comments baking, Camilla Wheeler, cooking, food, gingernuts, Helena Marion Barnard, Red Cross, Sarah Johnston, Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero, WWI

Read the story about Mrs Barnard’s Anzac gingernuts here. Ingredients Mrs Barnard’s original recipe Halved (Metric) Halved (by volume) Plain

Film Sound

Vincent Ward, As He Was in 1990

May 8, 2014March 29, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Alex Porter, Edge of The Earth, Morning Report, Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero, Vincent Ward

Alex Porter (SANTK Preservation Archivist) was lucky enough to meet Vincent Ward when he received his Honorary Doctorate at The

Archiving Practice Sound

Accession 02/030/273

May 8, 2014March 29, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Bill Beavis, lacquer discs, Marie O'Connell, paper tape, Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero, sound preservation, sound technology

– By Marie O’Connell (SANTK Preservation Archivist) The Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero acquired this accession in 2002 and it

Film

The World According to Ward

May 1, 2014March 29, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 2 Comments A State of Siege, Alex Porter, Alien 3, Christchurch Wizard, film preservation, In Spring One Plants Alone, Map of the Human Heart, Rain of The Children, River Queen, Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero, The Navigator, University of Canterbury, Vincent Ward, What Dreams May Come

– By Alex Porter (SANTK Preservation Archivist) Whilst my colleagues hustled Christchurch crowds on April 14th to get their smart

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