Events In History
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29 October 1995Forgotten silver film hoax screenedPeter Jackson and Costa Botes' documentary about Colin McKenzie, a forgotten hero of early New Zealand movie-making, was later revealed as the biggest Kiwi film hoax of the century. Read more...
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22 March 1994Kiwis win Oscars for 'The piano'Anna Paquin was the first New Zealander to win an Oscar for acting and the second youngest recipient in Oscar history. Director Jane Campion won an Oscar for best original screenplay. Read more...
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1 April 1981New Zealand Film Archive launchedThe New Zealand Film Archive has grown considerably since it shared Wellington premises with the New Zealand Federation of Film Societies. Read more...
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3 January 1930First NZ-made 'talkie' screenedCoubray-tone News, the work of the inventive Ted Coubray, had its first public screening at Auckland's Plaza Theatre. Read more...
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8 March 1929First 'talkie' draws huge crowds in WellingtonMoviegoers flocked to see Street angel, a silent picture with a recorded musical soundtrack, at Wellington's Paramount Theatre. There were also five 'talkie shorts', including an interview with the King of Spain. Read more...
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1 December 1898First movie shot in NZThe first motion pictures known to have been taken in New Zealand were made by photographer W.H. Bartlett, who filmed the opening of the Auckland Industrial and Mining Exhibition Read more...
Articles
Assisted immigration, 1947-75
New Zealand is a country of immigrants. Wave after wave of peoples have settled here: Polynesian, British, European, Asian.
- Page 3 - Leaving the grey UKThe Immigration Branch needed to advertise the assisted immigration scheme as widely as possible and mostly used the classified sections of British
Life in the 20th century
Exploration of everyday life in New Zealand from 1900 to the mid-1980s
- Page 3 - Time outAs a modern society began to evolve in New Zealand in the early twentieth century, a new concept of 'leisure time' began to emerge
The 1920s
The 1920s was the decade that modern New Zealand came of age. Despite political and economic uncertainty, the country shrugged off the gloom of war to embrace the Jazz Age - an era of speed, power and glamour. Explore an overview of the decade and a year-by-year breakdown of key events.
- Page 8 - 1925 - key eventsA selection of key New Zealand events from
Biographies
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Lye, Leonard Charles Huia
Len Lye is a controversial figure in New Zealand art, an internationally renowned and influential film-maker and kinetic sculptor who is seen by some as an outsider whose art has little relevance to the local tradition
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Main image: Len Lye
Artist Len Lye was both an experimental film-maker and a kinetic sculptor, who produced sculptures that moved
