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Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision

Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision is a physics topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision rather than just read about it. In short: Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision (the operating name for the New Zealand Archive of Film, Television and Sound Ngā Taonga Whitiāhua me Ngā Taonga Kōrero) is an integrated audiovisual archive formed from amalgamation of the collections and operations of the RNZ Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero and the Television New Zealand Archive with the New Zealand Film Archive. The integrated organisation was launched with its new name…

Key takeaways

Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision belongs to physics; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision (the operating name for the New Zealand Archive of Film, Television and Sound Ngā Taonga Whitiāhua me Ngā Taonga Kōrero) is an integrated audiovisual archive formed from amalgamation of the collections and operations of the RNZ Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero and the Television New Zealand Archive with the New Zealand Film Archive. The integrated organisation was launched with its new name on 1 August 2014.

Purpose Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision identifies itself as New Zealand's audiovisual archive, with a purpose of collecting, sharing and caring for New Zealand's audiovisual taonga.

Structure Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision is an independent charitable trust (CC22250). It identifies itself as a Tier 2 public benefit entity (PBE). The predecessor organisation was The New Zealand Film Archive, incorporated under the Charitable Trusts Act 1957 on 9 March 1981. Between 2012 and 2014, an integrated audiovisual archive was formed from amalgamation of the collections and operations of the RNZ Sound Archives, Ngā Taonga Kōrero and the Television New Zealand Archive with the New Zealand Film Archive. The name of the organisation was changed to The New Zealand Archive of Film, Television and Sound Ngā Taonga Whitiāhua Me Ngā Taonga Kōrero, effective 1 July 2014. The Minister for Broadcasting Craig Foss announced Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision as the operating name of the new integrated archive organisation on 1 August 2014. Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision retained the Constitution and Kaupapa of the New Zealand Film Archive when it was founded in 2014.

Funding Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision receives core funding from the Ministry for Culture and Heritage from Vote Arts, Culture and Heritage. Over half of the $5 million annually received from the Ministry is for the management of the TVNZ Archive and RNZ Sound Archive collections. Te Māngai Pāho provides funding to Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision for the archiving of television programmes broadcast by the Māori Television Service and the archiving of iwi radio programmes, and the NZ Lottery Grants Board provides an annual fixed percentage of Lottery profits. For the 2014/15 year, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision received $1,590,000 from the Ministry for the ongoing "management, archiving and increased accessibility" of the TVNZ Archive collection. Thereafter it received $2 million per year for the same purpose. On 19 October 2017, the Governor-General of New Zealand Dame Patsy Reddy launched Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision's patronage programme at Government House, Wellington. The archive established the patronage programme because of uncertainty over funding. At its launch, the programme raised $18,943. The public donation programme initially highlighted the need to preserve and digitise 200,000 Betacam video tapes from the 1980s which were predominantly from the TVNZ Archive collection. Chief Executive of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision Rebecca Elvy told RNZ news that it would cost $10–15 million to digitise the Betacam tapes, which otherwise would be lost forever when the technology vanished by 2025.

Collections Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision manages three major collections: the New Zealand Film Archive collection, the Radio New Zealand Sound Archives, added in 2012, and the Television New Zealand Archive, added in 2014. In 2014, these three collections formed 65% of the total archives of Ngā Taonga. In addition, the archive holds five entries of the UNESCO Memory of the World Aotearoa New Zealand Ngā Mahara o te Ao register. As of 2025, the archive reports holding over 800,000 items, which includes over 600,000 hours of television and over 120,000 audio items.

New Zealand Film Archive collection

Established in 1981, the New Zealand Film Archive operated as an independent organisation until the creation of Ngā Taonga. By 2012 the New Zealand Film Archive collection contained over 150,000 items including moving-images from 1895 to the present day. The collection includes predominantly New Zealand features and short films, and contains items with significant Māori content, including records of karanga, whaikorero and iwi and hapu whakapapa.

RNZ Sound Archive collection RNZ Sound Archive collection includes early audio cylinders, acetate discs, open reel tapes, cassette tapes and digital audio tapes. Radio New Zealand's Sound Archives were established in 1956 in Timaru, and originally dates back to the late 1930s when the State broadcaster established a "special library". In 1998, Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero was established as a subsidiary of Radio New Zealand, combining the archives of Sound Archives and Ngā Taonga Kōrero, a separate collection established in the 1960s by the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation to preserve Māori language content. Leo Fowler and Wiremu Kerekere travelled throughout the country recording hui, marae openings, cultural festivals, welcomes and farewells. Both raw and edited audio was kept. For many years the collection was held in Papatoetoe, before moving in 1985 with the associated programme unit, then known as Te Reo o Aotearoa, to RNZ's Cook Street facility. In the 2000s the audio preservation staff moved with Radio New Zealand to a new Hobson Street site and the collection was moved to a purpose-built archive facility at RNZ's transmission site in Henderson. The RNZ Sound Archive collection became a part of Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision in 2012. Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision moved the collection to Avalon as part of the 2016/17 restructure. The RNZ Sound Archive staff and collection were transferred to Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision on 1 October 2012. In 2014 the collection was valued at $800,000. On 30 June 2016, Radio New Zealand transferred the full legal ownership and title of physical assets used by RNZ Sound Archives to Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision at the time of the archive's transfer in 2012. The net book value of radio assets held by Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision was $423,946 on 1 July 2014, dropping to $172,029 on 30 June 2017. In 2012, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage provided $1 million of funding for the digitisation of the sound collection. Internally the archive, was concerned that the funds were going to be used as a contingency fund for staff redundancy payments. The organisation received an additional $984,000 between 2013 and 2015 for the project.

TVNZ Archive collection

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Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In physics, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision

In research: Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision appears in physics research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2012 mergers and acquisitions, 2014 establishments in New Zealand, 2014 mergers and acquisitions, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

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Why does Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision matter?

Because it connects several physics ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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