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As a modern society began to evolve in New Zealand in the early twentieth century, a new concept of 'leisure time' began to emerge

A selection of key New Zealand events from 1925

The New Zealand Film Archive has grown considerably since it began operation in the Wellington premises it shared with the New Zealand Federation of Film Societies.

Poster from the 1956 film The Battle of the River Plate in which HMS Achilles played herself.

Peter 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.

Coubray-tone News, the work of the inventive Ted Coubray, had its first public screening at Auckland’s Plaza Theatre.

This silent clip shows Labour candidate David McLaren addressing electors in Post Office Square, Wellington, in 1911.

Anna Paquin was the first New Zealander to win an Oscar for acting and the second youngest recipient in Oscar history. Jane Campion won an Oscar for best original screenplay.

Moviegoers 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.

A couple of immigrant's first impressions of New Zealand. Extract from Journey for Three, NZ National Film Unit Laboratories,1950.

A Scottish woman describes visiting a milkbar with a 'chap from the factory' who thinks she's 'nae bad'.