New Zealand Film Archive
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| Location | New Zealand |
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| Type | Film, television and sound archive |
| Website | ngataonga |
Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision is the operating name for the New Zealand Archive of Film, Television and Sound Ngā Taonga Whitiāhua Me Ngā Taonga Kōrero. The archive was formed on 1 August 2014, by the amalgamation of the New Zealand Film Archive, Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero and the Television New Zealand Archive. The organisation is an independent Charitable Trust dedicated to collecting, protecting and connecting New Zealand’s audiovisual heritage with the widest possible audience.
Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision's main head office is in Wellington. As well as preservation facilities, the Wellington premises feature a 110-seat cinema, viewing and reference libraries, and a gallery that hosts regular moving image exhibitions. Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision also has offices in Auckland, with viewing facilities and gallery exhibitions, and in Christchurch, which is where the majority of the sound archiving takes place. Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision operates medianet, a digital video resource that provides access to the collections at 17 host institutions across New Zealand.
Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision holds a large collection of moving image and audio items. The collections date back to 1895 and span New Zealand's sound and moving image history: from the earliest days of cinema, audio recording and television, to contemporary film, television, advertisements, music videos, computer games and radio productions – along with related documentation.
The organisation archives amateur recordings, public broadcasts and commercially released productions.
The collections that constitute Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision have been built over several decades. Archiving of the sound collections dates back to the 1930s, when the state broadcaster established a “Special Library”; and preservation of the film and television collections dates back to 1981, when the New Zealand Film Archive was established.
Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision adheres to international archiving standards, and is a member of:
Material is deposited with Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision voluntarily and without cost to the depositor. The archive's guardianship ensures ownership of the original item and copyright are retained by the appropriate parties. The collections are stored in secure, climate-controlled vaults and conservation is undertaken where necessary.
Many titles in the collection can be viewed at the libraries in Wellington and Auckland. A school disk loan library was initiated in 2006, to support screening programmes in the school curriculum, and an online classroom was launched in 2013.
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