2009 Matariki screening programme for Ngati Pikiao
TE ARAWA / NGĀTI RANGIWEWEHI SCREENING PROGRAMME 05/07/2009
ROYAL VISIT OF THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF CORNWALL AND YORK TO NEW ZEALAND 1901
A fragmentary record of the 1901 royal visit to New Zealand by the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York to thank New Zealanders for their contribution to the Boer War. Scenes of their receptions at Rotorua, the Grand Carnival of the Tribes;
From Ohinemutu the Royal Couple and their party proceeded to Whakarewarewa. Here they were officially met by Te Keepa Te Rangipuawhe, Mita Taupopoki, and other rangatira of Tuhourangi.
Mr Clark, the Government Inspector, was in charge of affairs. Guide Sophia, one of the few survivors of the Tarawera eruption of 1886 conducted the Duchess, while her niece Maggie Papakura, took charge of the Duke.
SIGHTS IN NEW ZEALAND 1906
Taken at a hui at Tamatekapua Marae, Ohinemutu, Rotorua this footage shows groups of Maori men and women performing on a marae.
HE PITO WHAKAATU I TE HUI I ROTORUA: SCENES AT THE ROTORUA HUI
Maori gather at the Rotorua Racecourse to greet the Prince of Wales. The Dominion Museum party of Best, Anderson and McDonald took the opportunity to be present and record on film the Arawa powhiri to the visiting iwi at the reception camp.
[THE PRINCE OF WALES AT ROTORUA] 1920
Large group of Maori warriors brandishing their taiaha, perform the haka.
Young woman posing again; groups performing poi; woman wearing a kahukiwi? korowai brandishes a taiaha and performs while group walks off; many other large groups of warriors perform; women perform the single long poi.
He mea whakaahua nā James McDonald o te whare taonga o Aotearoa i te tau 1920. Filmed by James McDonald of the Dominion Museum in 1920.
FOX MOVIETONE NEWS: NATURE'S FIRELESS COOKER 1930
Editors Note: “Rotorua’s two adjacent pools - one icy cold - the other boiling hot. Maoris catch crayfish in the frigid stream and cook them in the steaming cauldron nature provides alongside.”
AKE AKE: B COMPANY REMEMBERS
A compilation of images of the Māori Battalion home and oversees 1945-48
Excerpts from Newsreel clips, home movies and still images supplied by whanau.
HOLLYWOOD COMES TO ROTORUA
Excerpts from the movies
THE ROMANCE OF HINEMOA
This feature film was shot in 1925 on various locations around Lake Rotorua and on White Island by the Danish director Gustav Pauli for the British company Sphere Films Ltd. It tells the story of the romance between the beautiful puhiwahine Hinemoa, and the young chief Tutanekai who lived on Mokoia island in the middle of Lake Rotorua.
This only-surviving reel was discovered in a garden shed outside London in 1981.
Excerpt
UNDER THE SOUTHERN CROSS / THE DEVIL'S PIT 1928
In February 1928, Universal sent a film crew to NZ to film a "Maori folk drama" the working title was Taranga. Filming began (with the title Taranga) in February 1928 around Rotorua.
THE SEEKERS 1954
Captured by a savage Maori tribe in New Zealand, Phillip Wayne, an English seaman, expects death or torture. Shot around Whakatane, Rotoiti and Tikitere [Excerpt]
DON'T LET IT GET YOU 1966
Excerpt with Howard Morrison
RANGI’S CATCH 1973
Two escaped convicts attract the attention of John and Jane Murray and their friends Rangi and Hemi after stealing clothes from the Murray's remote sheep farm. [Excerpt]
Temuera Morrison
NGA PUNA: KAHU AND MAIA 1993
Kahu is haunted by the image of Maia, and decides one morning to hitch a ride to whereever, which happens to be the town where Maia and her family live. [Excerpt]
Cliff Curtis
MARAE: JUDGE LOUIS BIDOIS 21/07/2002
At Awahou marae Louis Bidois is one of few Māori to be sworn in as a Chief Judge.
Nga-hihi-o-te-ra-Bidois - Ngāti Rangiwewehi
Mita Mohi - Te Arawa
WAKA HUIA: NGĀ WAIATA WHAKAKATAKATA O TE ARAWA
Mita Mohi - Ngāti Rangiwewehi.
MARAE SPECIAL - KAPA HAKA 2002
Ngāti Rangiwēwēhi, Te Arawa - Kaiarahi: Ātareta & Trevor Maxwell, Howard Morrison Jnr; Kaitātaki Tane: Howard Morrison Jnr; Kaitātaiki Wahine: Ātareta Maxwell.
NGĀTI RANGIWEWEHI MĀORI CLUB 1984
Ngāti Rangiwewehi Māori Group open with a wero and pōwhiri on Tawakeheimoa Marae. An elder in the group gives a whaikōrero. They perform and sing many old traditional songs around the tourist areas of Rotorua.
AOTEAROA TRADITIONAL MĀORI PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL, ROTORUA 1996 - NGĀTI RANGIWEWEHI
The Ngāti Rangiwewehi performance at the 1996 Aotearoa Festival. [Excerpt]