Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision is New Zealand’s moving image and sound archive.
The collections – which include amateur recordings, public broadcasts and commercially released productions – present a range of perspectives on what it has meant to be a New Zealander across history.
Although not all items are available digitally, you can sample the unique flavour of our audiovisual collections here on our YouTube channel.
You can find more film and audio items online at: www.ngataonga.org.nz
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⛱️Every year we make a holiday video to share something special from the collection. This year our film team preserved several charming home movies from the Goldsmith family, dating from the late 1920s to the 1940s.
It was a privilege to digitally preserve and watch these films in 2025, and with the family’s permission we decided to use some of their vintage summer holiday footage to make our holiday video.
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🎥 Behind the scenes of the Utaina mass audiovisual digitisation project - Ngā kāpeka mai muri i tēnei kaupapa rokirokitia-ā-mātihiko - Ko Utaina
For more information on Utaina! New Zealand's biggest mass digitisation project, head over to our website: ⬇️
🌐www.ngataonga.org.nz/collecting-preserving/our-pre…
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#onthisday
July 10 marks the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior. A team of French secret service agents detonated two limpet bombs while the ship was in Auckland Harbour, killing crew member Fernando Pereira and irreparably damaging the Rainbow Warrior.
Ngā Taonga holds many radio and television records related to the bombing and its aftermath, including this award-winning news package by 1ZB.
🎙️ Listen here: bit.ly/4krvUS7
We have made a short that features some extracts from the sound collection.
🎞️ Watch here: www.youtube.com/shorts/Z4S1Aj...
📸 Image courtesy of Auckland Library, 'Rainbow Warrior bombing, 1985'
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#onthisday The tragic sinking of the Lyttelton–Wellington ferry Wahine took place on 10 April 1968. Over 50 people lost their lives, making it New Zealand’s worst maritime disaster.
This 1968 interview with survivor Graham Wilson is in our audio collection: bit.ly/4iX3Tlr
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Happy Anniversary day Otago ! 🥳
A few years ago, Ngā Taonga paid a visit to the great city of Dunedin Ōtepoti to match historic footage with modern day locations. The three-part video series proved very popular, so we've plucked out a few scenes of iconic locations from those videos to celebrate today.
We hope you enjoy these short clips. If you wish to check out more Dunedin scenes, you can watch the full three-part series on either our Facebook playlist or over on our YouTube channel ➡️ bit.ly/4bXgmTJ
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A huge thank you to all for the positive reception to our latest Waitangi film compilation, 'Tāngata Whenua-Tāngata Tiriti: Kotahitanga'.
📽 Follow the link to watch for yourself on our website:
www.ngataonga.org.nz/news/nga-taonga-news/tangata-…
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🔥 Hot from the scanners, a comparison look at the amazing preservation work done to the 1930s film 'The Maritime City'. This New Zealand government funded film explored all over the capital city (Wellington) and we can now all enjoy these historic scenes in much greater detail than before.
This recently upload is now the latest to join our rescan playlist, for more videos like this visit our channel or follow us on our other social platforms for more New Zealand archival content.
Looking for more Wellington archival film content? we recently posted a blog celebrating Wellingtons anniversary which we encourage you to check out.
Link to blog: www.ngataonga.org.nz/explore-stories/stories/film/…
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We are fast approaching the holiday and as a send off to 2024, we have created a compilation from the collection highlighting the personal records/home movies we care for.
Ngā Taonga wishes everyone a safe and happy holiday season.
For this year’s holiday compilation, we delved into our collection of personal records, also known as home movies, in search of vintage summer road trips.
Nei rā a Ngā Taonga, e mihi atu ana ki a koutou katoa. Kia haumaru, kia manahau i tēnei raumati.
Mō te kohinga kiriata hararei i tēnei tau, kua tīpako mātou i ētahi kiriata runaruna nō te kohinga e whakaatu ana i ngā haerenga ā-raumati i te hikuwai o te tau.
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Warner Bros. Discovery donated over 400,000 items to Ngā Taonga, including every episode of Three National News, 3 News and Newshub at 6, from Three National News’ launch on 27 November 1989 through to the final episode of Newshub on 5 July 2024.
All of this content will be digitally preserved to ensure that it stands the test of time for future generations.
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Warner Bros. Discovery have donated over 400,000 stories and programmes from the TV3/Newshub archive to Ngā Taonga, where they will be digitised and permanently cared for in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Read more about yesterday's historic announcement on Stuff:
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360516438/explained-what-h…
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