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Traditional Māori weapons
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
This clip from television show Whakahuia, shows traditional Māori weapons being used.
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Local regattas
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
This 1951 National Film Unit clip features several South Island yachting regattas, and indicates the enthusiasm of amateur sailors at that time.
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Hīkoi to Parliament
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
More than 15,000 protesters arrive at Parliament in May 2004, demonstrating their opposition to the Labour government's legislation restricting the ability of Māori to claim customary rights to the foreshore and seabed. Protesters from around the country joined the massive hīkoi (march) to ...
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Marilyn Waring
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
In 1975, at the age of 22, Marilyn Waring became the youngest-ever member of the New Zealand Parliament, as National MP for Raglan, and later Waipā. Her threat to side with the opposition over nuclear-free legislation prompted the snap election of 1984. Later she became internationally known for...
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
One hundred crowded years
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
In 1940 the Government Film Studios made a film to commemorate the centennial of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, and the first century of New Zealand as a nation. The film featured this highly romanticised footage of the heroic struggles of the ...
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Kea mating
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Kea are the world’s most alpine parrots. They mate in the winter snow after a long and gentle courtship.
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Calf club
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Dairy farming is very important in Taranaki, and many school pupils are involved in calf clubs. In this 1954 film clip, contestants parade the calves they have raised for judging.
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Yeti special effects
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Watch a yeti move its mouth and eyebrows in this video clip of special-effects expert Richard Taylor, of Wellington’s Weta Studios. Taylor shows how small remote-controlled motors, like those used on toy remote-controlled cars, are used to ...
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Whāngai
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
When this couple's baby is born it will be given to a relative to raise, a practice known as whāngai.
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Māori Land March, 1975
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Thousands of Māori and Pākehā took part in the 1975 Māori Land March from the Far North to Parliament in 1975, headed by the elderly Hokianga community leader Whina Cooper. This film extract shows Mrs Cooper in a brown coat and pink headscarf, together with other marchers. One of them ...
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Ngāi Tāmanuhiri Treaty of Waitangi settlement
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
In March 2011, Ngāi Tāmanuhiri became the first of the Poverty Bay iwi to sign a deed of settlement with the Crown. The agreement, signed by Minister of Treaty Settlements Chris Finlayson for the Crown, included the transfer of Young Nicks Head reserve, to be officially known as Te Kurī-a-Pā...
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
North Island main trunk line: Raurimu spiral
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
The Raurimu spiral is the North Island main trunk line's most impressive engineering feat. The land rose sharply between National Park and Raurimu, so laying the track in a spiral formation and running it through tunnels allowed the train to traverse the steep terrain. This clip ...
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
VJ Day
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
News of Japan's surrender following the dropping of two atom bombs was received in New Zealand at 11 a.m. on 15 August 1945. Sirens sounded immediately, and before long streamers were unfurled, and there were bands playing and people dancing in the streets. This film records some of the ...
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Gestational surrogacy
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Gestational surrogacy is where a woman carries a baby for an individual or couple who provide the eggs and sperm – the baby is not the biological child of the surrogate. In this clip from a 2007 television documentary Sherilee Randle talks about how she decided to become a ...
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
First World War syphilis-prevention film
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Whatsoever a man soweth, a Canadian film made in 1917, was shown to New Zealand troops. It warned against contact with prostitutes, and showed the results of syphilis for an infected man and his children. The International Hospitality League (mentionedin the last frame) was set up by the ...
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Ōtira social dance, 1948
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Ōtira is a small railway settlement on the West Coast side of the Ōtira tunnel, which links the east and west coasts of the South Island. Ōtira residents and others along the railway line would meet for a Friday-night dance in the local hall. Dancers in their best clothes glide across the ...
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Queen opens Parliament
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
During the Queen Elizabeth's visit to New Zealand in 1953/54 she presided over the opening of Parliament – the first time a monarch had done so. In this clip of the opening she stresses the progress the country had made in 100 years since it gained self-government in 1852.
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Babies at a Karitane hospital, 1957
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Karitane hospitals were established by the Royal New Zealand Plunket Society to care for new babies who were not thriving at home. These babies are being cared for in 1957 – the 50th anniversary of the hospital's founding.
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Pan Pacific Jamboree, Auckland
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Thousands of Scouts attended the Pan Pacific Jamboree held in Auckland in 1959. Organised youth group movements such as the Scouts arose in the early 1900s to give moral guidance to young people and to encourage them to take part in outdoor activities. They declined in popularity with teenagers ...
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Wahakura
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Wahakura are traditionally woven sleeping bassinets for young babies, which enable babies to sleep with their parents safely.
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