Events In History
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29 February 2004The return of the king wins 11 OscarsPeter Jackson’s last film in the colossal Lord of the rings trilogy, The return of the king, won all 11 Oscars it was nominated for at the 76th Academy Awards in Los Angeles. Read more...
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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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21 March 1994Kiwis win Oscars for The pianoEleven-year-old Anna Paquin became the first New Zealander to win an Academy Award for acting when she was named best supporting actress for her role as Flora McGrath in the acclaimed historical drama, The piano. Paquin was the second youngest recipient of this award in Oscar history. Read more...
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5 September 1990An Angel at My Table screens at Venice Film FestivalBased on the autobiographies of Janet Frame, An angel at my table was screened in 35 countries and won multiple awards, including a Grand Special Jury prize in Venice. 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 New Zealand-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 crowds in WellingtonMoviegoers flocked to Wellington’s Paramount Theatre to see Frank Borzage’s Street angel, a silent picture with a recorded musical soundtrack. Read more...
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1 December 1898First movie shot in New ZealandThe first motion pictures known to have been taken in New Zealand were made by photographer W.H. Bartlett for the entrepreneur Alfred Whitehouse, who in 1895 had imported the colony’s first ‘kinetoscope’. 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
