Diane Pivac and  James Taylor: Sights and Sounds of World War I
Channel: NDF - National Digital Forum
Date: 2015-10-18

Day 2 of NDF 2015, 11.30am Wednesday 14 October 2015

World War One commemorations have provided the impetus for a number of projects at Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision. Funding from the Lottery Grants Board WWI Commemoration Fund has enabled a repatriation project that has brought home digital copies of films with significance to New Zealand held in overseas archives, as well as a project to scan and digitise WWI materials already in the collections. This has greatly improved their quality and accessibility. These new and rescanned films, alongside archival audio relating to the war, feature in a number of digital public programmes blending analogue and digital media. This presentation will discuss these projects, including the new website anzacsightsound.org, a partnership with the National Film & Sound Archive (Australia).

Diane Pivac is Head of Audience at Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision, leading the team responsible for the archive’s public programmes – which are increasingly being delivered via the web and other digital platforms. Diane has curated and presented a wide range of screenings, exhibitions, and web resources on New Zealand film, and is passionate about connecting New Zealanders to their audiovisual culture.

James Taylor is Research Co-ordinator at Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision. He has a MA in history from Victoria University. Before joining what was then the New Zealand Film Archive in 2011, he worked for TVNZ and as a contract historian. He has worked closely on Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision WWI projects for the past few years, including curating the www.anzacsightsound.org website and forthcoming loan programme.