On Disk Video Library: Social Studies 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 material 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
Social Organisation
Famous New Zealanders (2 disks)
The statue of Seddon outside parliament grounds. New Zealand's Top 100 History Makers (Visionary Film and Television, 2005)
Much extended programme. Our thanks to Visionary Film and Television for their generous provision of extracts from their excellent series NZ’s Top 100 History Makers.
Part One: History Makers - Kate Sheppard, Jean Batten, Ed Hillary; War Heroes – Keith Park, Charles Upham, Bernard Freyberg; Political Leaders – Richard Seddon, Michael Savage, Peter Fraser, Norman Kirk, Robert Muldoon, David Lange, Roger Douglas and Helen Clark; Movers & Shakers – Te Whiti, Kate Edger, Sylvia Cartwright, Tim Shadbolt, John Minto; Maori Leaders – Apirana Ngata, Te Puea, Rua Kenana, Te Rangi Hiroa, Whina Cooper, Eva Rickard; Inventors – Richard Pearce, Bill Hamilton, Collin Murdoch; Business Leaders – Brydone and Davidson, James Fletcher, James Wattie, Thomas Edmonds.
Part Two: Science and Medicine - Ernest Rutherford, William Pickering, Maurice Wilkins, Archibald McIndoe, Fred Hollows; The Arts – Charles Goldie, Frances Hodgkins, Colin McCahon, Katherine Mansfield, James K Baxter, Michael King, Bruno Lawrence, Kiri Te Kanawa, Neil Finn, Peter Jackson; Sports – George Nepia, Jack Lovelock, Colin Meads, Peter Snell, Richard Hadlee, Peter Blake; New Zealand Icons – Susanne Aubert, Aunt Daisy, Godfrey Bowen, Marie Clay, John Clarke, Billy T James and Barry Crump.
Total Duration: 170 minutes
Representation of Women
Toyota Starlet. She's a Lady TVC (Colenso, 1983 or 1985)
Reedited and expanded, representations of New Zealand women on film, television and the advertising industry. A historical progression from 1900 to the present. Multi-menu format reorganized into advertising, actualities 1910-1929, newsreels 1935-48, fictional narrative, documentary. Changing gender representation and recurring themes: role, work and self-image (big hats and beauty contests, wartime roles, callisthenics, typing, nursing, mothercare, home economics, modern media images...)
Total Duration: 99 minutes
Patu! New Zealand Society and the 1981 Tour
Springbok Tour street protests in Patu! (1983), directed by Merata Mita.
Pre-match Springbok fervour in Christchurch (1956), Australian coverage of the ‘No Maoris No Tour’ protest in 1960, and the stunning documentary, Patu! filmed during the lead up to, and the ensuing turmoil of the '81 Tour. A unique moment in New Zealand's history where social justice and human rights internationally, became centred on that strangely shaped ball. Finally a look at current affairs coverage of the 1985 cancellation of a tour to South Africa with the varied reaction and the changing mood of New Zealand society in the post ’81 period.
Total Duration: 102 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
Culture and Heritage
New Zealand Identity (2 disks)
Frame grab from Lemon and Paeroa TVC, L&P World Famous in New Zealand, (199-)
Images historical and contemporary from film, television and advertising that project perceptions of a distinct New Zealand identity. Enlarged and updated.
Part One: Place and Environment (the beach, the quarter–acre paradise, the Scenic Wonderland, the Maori Land March 1975); Culture and Identity - Tangata Whenua (early Tourist & Publicity shots, the Maori Batallion, Kohanga Reo 1983, Whale Rider 2002), Bi-culturalism (Treaty celebration ads 1990), Many Cultures (Pacific immigration, refugees); Society - Continuity and Change (the small town, the Big Smoke and fabulous Identity Advertising).
Part Two: The Pioneers, Sport and War (comparative shots 1940 - 2000); People and Events (Kate Sheppard and Women’s Suffrage, Jack Lovelock in Berlin 1936, Sir Edmund Hillary and Everest, the Wahine, the Nuclear stance); Economic Identity (the traditional - Fred Dagg, No. 8 wire, pampered sheep, jetboats and the modern - Weta Digital, computers and modern telecommunications); Memory and Reality (TV commercials pull out all the Identity stops).
Total Duration: 130 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
Time, Continuity and Change
Vietnam
In the Shadow of Vietnam (Top Shelf Productions, 1995)
New Zealand's Vietnam experience with extracts from
the stunning 1982 Television New Zealand series Vietnam - The New Zealand
Story (footage courtesy of New Zealand Television Archive) and the intimate
recollections of Vietnam veterans from the excellent Top Shelf
production, In the Shadow of Vietnam. Essential viewing.
The Bomb: New Zealand and the Nuclear Debate 1945–1985
A Nuclear Free Pacific (Pacific Stories Partnership, 1988)
Expanded. New Zealand and the Pacific, moving towards the Nuclear Free Zone Treaty, 1985. Covers the post-war climate, from Hiroshima to cold war strategy, United States and British testing in the South Pacific and Australia, Pacific Rim dispersal, the earliest nuclear ship visits, early Labour initiatives and the Muldoon backlash, the protest movement, Mururoa, the South Pacific Forum, the USS Truxton, Lange at the U.N. and Oxford Union Debate, the nuclear vessel ban... The programme is completed with a case study on the French in the Pacific using extracts from Pita Turei's Hotu Painu and McDougall Craig's Child of the Rainbow Warrior.
Total Duration: 74 minutes
Anzac: New Zealanders at War 1900-2006
(3 disks)
Heroes of Crete (NFU, 1941)
Completely reedited and updated.
Part One 1899-1918 Images from the Boer War - NZ’s earliest surviving film fragment; and World War I - actuality footage and documentary treatment.
Part Two 1939-1945 WWII - the Seafarers, the Airmen, the Soldiers, Women at War, life on the Home Front - New Zealand, Australian and British newsreels 1940-1945, documentary treatment and on screen text.
Part Three 1948-2006 Korea, Malaya and Vietnam, Timor, Afghanistan and the Solomons, and finally the memory expressed each Anzac Day, and extracts from the ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior.
Total Duration: 180 minutes
New Zealand Society: The Fifties
(2 disks)
Maraetai 1950 Regatta (1950) Camera: AH Pilliner.
Updated and expanded. Double dvd compilation:
Part One Significant Events: the Empire Games; Korea and compulsory military training; the 1951 Waterfront Lockout; the Royal Visit; Hillary & Everest; Tangiwai; Malaya; the Auckland Harbour Bridge. Cold War: ANZUS and SEATO. Growth & Development: industry, agriculture and technology.
Part Two Society: Town & Country; Maori; Health; Education & Youth. Sport, Culture & Leisure: Godfrey Bowen, Bob Charles, the 1956 Springboks, A&P shows, music film, the beach, Opo the Dolphin and... “It’s in the Bag!”
Total Duration: 165 minutes
New Zealand Society: The Sixties
(2 disks)
Young Miss and Young Mister New Zealand 1963 (Reynolds TV, 1963)
Updated and expanded. Double DVD compilation with edited highlights of a decade at the crossroads of change:
Part One, The People: education; sport & recreation; Maori; gender & fashion. Significant Events: Britain & the EEC; Royal Visits and the Beatles (1963,1964); the television revolution; the Wahine and Man on the Moon. Controversial Issues: the No Maoris No Tour protests, the all white All Blacks in South Africa; Vietnam.
Part Two, Growth & development: industry, roading and telecommunications. Pop Culture: CHTV3 launch (1962), the Chicks and Ray Columbus, not to mention Mr Lee Grant and Peter Sinclair. TV advertising: my how times have changed.
Total Duration 111 minutes
New Zealand Society: The Seventies
(2 disks)
Craig Scott exhorts New Zealanders to spend time in their own country: New Zealand Is Yours, Go There Now (1972).
Enlarged programme.
Part One: People, Politics & the Mass Media: New Zealanders at leisure, the hippie generation, redefining the male; the economy, Britain and the EEC, new fuels and Think Big; politics, Norman Kirk, Robert Muldoon, election advertising; the mass media, 70s television, advertising and popular music.
Part Two: Issues & Events: the Vietnam War and the protest movement; Manapouri, the environment and endangered species; Nga Tama Toa, the Land March and Bastion Point; the feminist revolution; Erebus.
Total Duration: 180 minutes
Resources and Economic Activity
Women and Work
Journalist Marcia Russell founder of Thursday Magazine, in Sheilas: 28 Years On (Occassional Productions, 2004)
Reedited and updated. The changing attitudes, legal status and occupational opportunities for New Zealand women from the nineteenth century to the present day. Early and later pioneers: Kate Edger, Mother Aubert, Te Puea, Aunt Daisy, Marie Clay, Marcia Russell, Helen Clark and Sylvia Cartwright; specific role designations in pre-WWII industry; acceptable occupations for the daughters of the middle classes; farming wives during the Depression; WWII and ‘man-powering’; herd testers and male backlash; images of eternal motherhood 1945-1970, nursing and relativity to male wages, the housewife in the 60s kitchen, underlying social implications in television advertising (1961-99), the feminist revolution, Germaine Greer, the decades of redefinition and change (1980s on), ‘women's professions’ in the 1990s.
Total Duration 98 minutes
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