Waitangi Day and catching up with film preservation

Nau mai ki te kawerongo o Ngā Taonga — welcome to our newsletter

In this issue we're catching up with the film team, hearing from a researcher and sharing our collections on Waitangi Day.

Archive Fives – Film

We're looking into the important work of our Preservation Services teams – finding out what they do and what their favourite collection items are. Third in this five-part series is the Film team.
These experts put in hours of hard work to get the best preservation results from film. Learn about the work they do, their training and backgrounds and which New Zealand film they've watched dozens of times.

The Film Team

Waitangi Day

Ko te Rā o Waitangi te rā i haina ai Te Tiriti o Waitangi, te pepa i tū ai a Aotearoa. E harikoa ana mātou ki te mahi i te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa me te Kaunihera o Te Whanganui-a-Tara hei tautoko i ngā mahi whakamahara i tērā rā. Mehemea kei Waitangi koe, kimihia ngā papa kiriata e pā ana ki ā mātou whakaaturanga. Pānuitia mai ngā whakamārama mō ēnei kaupapa me ngā kiriata o Waitangi kei a mātou.

Waitangi Day marks the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, a founding document of Aotearoa. We're proud to partner with the National Library Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa and Wellington City Council to support Waitangi celebration events. If you're at Waitangi on the day, keep an eye on the big screens for more of our content, too. Read about these events and some of the historical Waitangi recordings we hold.

Waitangi

Deposit to the collection

Do you have material that could be deposited with us? You'll retain ownership and Ngā Taonga will care for the item. We're always interested in films and discs that are held in sheds and attics, though we're not solely looking for physical formats – we collect 'born digital' material such as digital film files and MP3s. Read more about making a deposit.

Make a deposit

Researching our collections

Ngā Taonga is a great resource for researchers and in 2018 we welcomed Emily Timms from the University of Leeds to Wellington for two months. She was working on her PhD looking at representations of age and ageing in Māori and Caribbean fiction and film. Her article concerning this in Patricia Grace's Chappy is out now in Moving Worlds journal.
You can also read her reflections on the Tangata Whenua series and her time researching at the archive.

Researcher report

From the Archives

27 January 1962 – Peter Snell set a world record in the mile.
29 January 2004 – Author Janet Frame passed away.
11 February 1910 – Performer and broadcaster Airini Grennell was born.

News briefs

Ngā Taonga, Archives NZ and the National Library each have an intern from Ngāti Porou for the next ten weeks.
Our much loved Don't Let It Get You sign is back! It's been installed at the National Library on the Lower Ground floor. Learn about its history.
This is our final month of Rust + Restoration. Check it out before it closes on 22 February.

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Are there things you'd like to read about, or do you have suggestions for how we present our newsletter? Your feedback is always welcome – please email us.

All images from the collections of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision, except where noted:
1. Film archivists Richard Falkner, Kurt Otzen and Gareth Evans. Photo by Leslie Lewis.

2. The Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi by Ōriwa Haddon. Courtesy Archives NZ. AEGA 18982 PC4 1934/3067.
3. The TA3 vault at Ngā Taonga.
4. University of Leeds researcher Emily Timms.

Collections — Events — Preservation — Catalogue

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