On Disk Video Library: Geography Menu
The ON DISK titles detailed below are source material compilations from New Zealand film and television that support topic coverage in the New Zealand Secondary School Curriculum.
Background materials for each disk title are attached below the title description including:
- teacher’s disk booklet for a perusal of content
- new online units aligned to many disk titles
- online order form for On Disk loans
New Title Release May 2008
Officially released by the Mayor of Wellington, Kerry Prendergast on May 14, 2008
Urban Settlements: Wellington is the second year 12 Geography ON DISK resource in an Urban Settlement series. This is an extensive triple-disk production with a detailed online unit using selected material from the dvds. The series aims to increase the options available for Geography urban studies throughout New Zealand.
Urban Settlements: Wellington (3 disks)
Absolutely Positively Wellington TVC (Saatchi & Saatchi, 1991)
Part One: Growth of Wellington: History and settlement patterns: an overview of early European settlement: the functions of the early township and harbour; analysis of 19th century society in Te Aro; the 1855 Earthquake; early 20th century silent footage. Expansion and infrastructure post World War II: the post-war state housing boom and the waves of new development in Naenae, Taita, Wanuiomata, Linden and Porirua; Wellington in-fill and suburban expansion - Strathmore and Maupuia; population boom and expansion in Lower Hutt; development of Wellington’s hinterland connections - Wairarapa, Kapiti.
Part Two: Land Use: Wellington’s dramatically changing C.B.D: Te Aro slums circa 1940s; the decentralisation of retail and services and urban decline 1970s; the massive reconstruction of the ‘Golden Mile’ from the late seventies on; the continuing property boom and environmental concepts in the 2000s. Structural characteristics: transport - trams, trolley buses and trains; roading issues - the motorway, the bypass, transmission gully versus the coastal highway; the airport; portside - history and projections, the harbour as public facility. Economic characteristics: wartime expansion, industrial centres - Porirua, industry downturn 1970s/80s. Social characteristics: social realities - inner city rentals and the arts community, the downside of increasing urban nightlife, restorative measures, Wellington’s homeless; Wellington communities - cultural change 1970s/80s, Wellington Maori, the Italian community, the Greek community, the Chinese community, Pacific Island communities and our latest arrivals.
Part Three: Urban Change, Function & Future Directions: Urban change - the apartment revolution and future housing projections. Function: the cultural capital - Wellywood, the Cuba Quarter; Sport - the Cake Tin - the ‘sevens’, the V8s and the rise of the Phoenix. Future Directions: Wellington’s rapidly changing image 1966-1988; the image through advertising 1991-2005; Directions for Urban Development in Wellington City - Paul Kos’ powerpoint on housing, transport, economic geography, demographics and the urban environmental needs and strategies for Wellington’s future decades.
Duration: 430 minutes
Urban Settlements: Auckland (3 disks)
Auckland, Pavlova Paradise Revisited (MacDougall Craig North, 2002)
New Title 2007/08
Part One: History: Auckland footage from the era of silent film; the debate over heritage buildings; historical
progress reports on Auckland’s development; Professor Kenneth Cumberland on Auckland’s history and a brief
historical on South Auckland; historical and more contemporary views from the 1970s on Auckland transport.
Part Two: Development: Auckland regional development proposals (Auckland Regional Council) and television
programming on growth 1998-2006; transport development; issues in urban growth: urban sprawl, water supply,
high rise apartments, bridges.
Part Three: People: Maori issues: Bastion Point, Ngati Whatua settlement 2006; Auckland communities: perceptions
of Aucklanders on Aucklanders and from those southside of the Bombays; local notables have their say; Queen Street
and a certain riot in 1984; the Otara Markets, the proposed Mt Wellington township and the original Round the Bays.
Duration: 265 minutes
Vulcanism
Mount Ruapehu, 1995. Shaky Beginnings (Bryan Bruce Productions, 1999)
Updated programme. Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, White Island, the Central North Island, vulcanism and geological analysis. Stunning actuality footage and documentary treatment: Ngauruhoe, Tarawera, the TVC, Ruapehu (1945/1996), the Tangiwai disaster (1953), White Island (1947/2000), Raoul Island (2006).
Total Duration: 57 minutes
Earthquakes and Tsunami
TV3 News 27/12/2004
Multi-menued disk with added extracts on Tsuami – New Zealand historical examples and a case study on the Boxing Day Tsunami of 2004. Murchison (1929), Hawkes Bay (1931), Wairarapa (1942), Inangahua (1968), and Edgecumbe (1987). Archive footage, documentary extracts analysing the nature of the earthquake in its New Zealand environs, contemporary footage and forward planning. The Wellington CBD and a reconstructed Napier are used as examples of preparedness.
Total Duration: 79 minutes
New Zealand Disasters
Tangiwai train carnage, from Movietone News: 155 Killed in Rail Tragedy as contained in Shaky Beginnings (Bryan Bruce Productions, 1999)
Expanded programme. New Zealand disasters: their effect on social organisation, resources, human preparedness, place and environment. Raw footage, documentary edits and television coverage from the Tararua Shipwreck 1881, the Tarawera Eruption (1886), the Brunner Mine Disaster (1896), the Influenza Epidemic (1918), the Napier Earthquake (1931), the Ballantyne's Fire (1947), the Tangiwai Disaster (1953), the Wahine Disaster (1968), Wellington CBD Reconstruction (1968-1990), Abbotsford (1979), Erebus (1979), the Edgecumbe Earthquake (1987), Cave Creek 1995 and the February floods of 2004.
Total Duration: 96 minutes
Tourism (2 disks)
Somebody Else's Horizon (Hugh MacDonald, NFU, 1976)
Part One: Destination New Zealand: The scenic wonderland, the sportsman’s paradise and
cultural tourism – the trinity of New Zealand’s imaging in earlier decades and still the basic tourism branding and
currency. A look at the messages of the early tourist industry and their evolution. Hilarious moments amongst the recurring
themes.
Part Two: Selling New Zealand: The dollars & cents of the trade, tourism overtakes agriculture as our largest
export earner in 2004; the specific markets – Japan, USA, Germany, Australia; the internal tourism market; tourism
and society – Rotorua, Queenstown, Kaikoura, the tourist industry and DOC; the changing image and realities of the 90s
and the new millennium – the backpacker, the action holidays, homestays and luxury lodges, and LOTR; and finally the
urban shift.
Total Duration: 162 minutes
Immigrants (2 disks)
New immigrants swearing in, from Assignment: Culture Shock (TVNZ, 2002)
Part One: A New Land: 19th and 20th century immigrant groups and their input to New Zealand society. Emphasises the various reasons for resettling, government policy directions, and the balance between maintaining cultural origin and general interaction within New Zealand society. An historical pan, Chain Migration (the Italians, the Lebanese), Assisted Passage (UK settlers), Refugees (Polish children, the second wave of Yugoslavs, the Tampa refugees) and Pacific Immigration (Aitutaki, Cook Islands).
Part Two: Trouble In Paradise: The ‘Overstayers’ and ‘Dawn Raids’ of the 70s, the ‘special’ treatment applied to Chinese immigration from goldrush times to the second wave, the contemporary reaction and Winston Peters, the Muslim experience and Ahmed Zaoui, and the ground level state of racism and our immigrant New Zealanders.
Total Duration: 110 minutes
Gold Mining
What Lies Beneath: The Missing Miners (Natural History New Zealand/TVNZ 2006)
Reedited and expanded. The disk is menued in three sections: Otago Gold - a short history, early 20th century extraction from pick and pan to dredging, and analysis of the remains; The Chinese Miners - archaeological analysis of the Chinese community below Cromwell carried out just prior to the Clyde Dam immersion; and finally a case study into the Environmental Impact of gold mining in New Zealand using the West Coast, the Shotover River and the Coromandel as early to modern examples.
Total Duration: 100 minutes
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