A Time to Remember: a nostalgic record of life in new zealand over five decades 1930-1975
Maker and role
Movietone News
Production date
[2007]
Object detail
Accession number
WAV-2017-19
Maker
Description
Cinesound and Movietone New Zealand Edition.
"In 1929 the Fox Movietone and Cinesound newsreels played in cinemas across the country. The immortalised the famous and the infamous, the eccentric and the battlers. The images evoke the fads and fashions of each decade, and are homage to the memory of those individuals who shaped twentieth century New Zealand. The commentaries encapsulate humour, sadness and empathy as well as prejudice, bitterness and ridicule.
This collection holds up a mirror to triumph and disaster, to the glorious and the banal, and demonstrates how ordinary New Zealanders as well as its heroes moulded New Zealand as a nation.
In 2003 UNESCO placed the Ciinesound Movietone Archive, alongside the Endeavour journal of of Captain Cook, on its Memory of the World Register." - from back cover.
"In 1929 the Fox Movietone and Cinesound newsreels played in cinemas across the country. The immortalised the famous and the infamous, the eccentric and the battlers. The images evoke the fads and fashions of each decade, and are homage to the memory of those individuals who shaped twentieth century New Zealand. The commentaries encapsulate humour, sadness and empathy as well as prejudice, bitterness and ridicule.
This collection holds up a mirror to triumph and disaster, to the glorious and the banal, and demonstrates how ordinary New Zealanders as well as its heroes moulded New Zealand as a nation.
In 2003 UNESCO placed the Ciinesound Movietone Archive, alongside the Endeavour journal of of Captain Cook, on its Memory of the World Register." - from back cover.
Media/Materials
Physical description
3 discs : colour ; approx. 220 minutes
Credit line
Movietone News. [2007]. A Time to Remember: a nostalgic record of life in new zealand over five decades 1930-1975, WAV-2017-19. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
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