WWII

Behind the scenes Film Mystery 

Did Robert Steele’s Missing Movies Go Up in Flames?

December 1, 2020December 1, 2020 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1940s, A Mild Case of Murder, Antoinette Bertram, Auckland, Ethel Gabriel, film, film noir, Freda Stark, Gracie Fields, Happy Honeymoon – A Near Tragedy, mystery, Robert Steele, sheila mcguire, The Wife Who Knew, WWII

As part of our search for the missing early films of Robert Steele, we received a slew of tips and

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Film NZ History 

70 Years Ago – Wanganella Strikes Rocks in Wellington Harbour

January 19, 2017January 18, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 4 Comments 1940s, Australia, Ellen Pullar, maritime, ship, shipping, Wanganella, Wellington, World War 2, World War II, WWII

70 years ago, on 19 January 1947, the trans-Tasman passenger liner TSMV Wanganella hit Barrett Reef in Wellington Harbour. Coming

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NZ History Sound 

Celebrating Christmas in the Desert, 1942

December 22, 2016February 6, 2017 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 2 Comments 1940s, 28th Māori Battalion, Africa, Charles Bennett, Christmas, Jesse Mulligan, Māori Battalion, Mobile Unit, New Zealand Broadcasting Service, NZBS, Porirua, Radio New Zealand, Sarah Johnston, Silent Night, Tapu te Po, Wiki Katene, World War II, World War Two, WWII

– By Sarah Johnston (Client Services Coordinator – Radio, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) Silent Night – Tapu te Po (Christmas

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Sound 

“A Date that will Live in Infamy” – The 75th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor

December 7, 2016December 15, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1940s, Auckland, David Spencer Finlayson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Hawaii, Kiribati, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Otago Daily Times, Pacific, Pearl Harbor, radio, Sarah Johnston, Thomas Matthews, United States, World War Two, WWII

– By Sarah Johnston (Client Services Coordinator – Radio, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) A “date that will live in

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NZ History Sound 

US Presidents – The Kiwi Connection

November 9, 2016December 19, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1960s, 1990s, 2010s, Bill Clinton, Christchurch, election, Hillary Clinton, John F. Kennedy, Keith Holyoake, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Morning Report, NZBC, politics, president, Queenstown, radio, United States, Vietnam War, Wellington, World War II, WWII

With the results from the United States presidential election due to start coming in later today, we thought it a

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Sound 

Audio Curios: The Man in The White Coat

June 21, 2016July 4, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 2YA, Audio Curios, Basil Clarke, BBC, Gareth Watkins, New Zealand Broadcasting Service, NZBC, NZBS, Peter Downes, Queen Mother, radio, Royal tour, royal visit, Shirley Maddock, WWII

You may have asked yourself, “who is that man in the white coat who sometimes appears at the top of

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NZ History Sound 

Rowley Habib

April 5, 2016April 13, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Māori Battalion, poetry, radio, Rowley Habib, World War Two, writer, WWII

Kua mate a Rowley Habib o Ngāti Tūwharetoa. He kaituhi, he kaitito rotarota, kua hoki ki ngā mātua i te

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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

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NZ History Sound 

Audio Curios: The Last Post

March 16, 2016March 21, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 2010s, Audio Curios, Gareth Watkins, music, Radio New Zealand, Radio New Zealand National, RNZ Concert, World War II, World War Two, WW1, WWI, WWII

Bugler Trevor Bremner and producer Shelley Wilkinson discuss the various bugle calls that make up the “Last Post” (“Bugle Stories,” RNZ

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Sound 

Sounds of Lost Christchurch

September 24, 2015April 12, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, 1980s, Christchurch, Christchurch earthquake, radio, royal visit, World War Two, WWII

Like many Christchurch inhabitants, our sound branch of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision (then known as Sound Archives Ngā Taonga

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