Russell Campbell, Adjunct Professor of Film at VUW and LHP Treasurer has compiled this incredibly comprehensive list of films and TV programmes featuring New Zealanders at work.
See also: New Zealand Workers on Screen: Part 2 – Industrial Disputes and Trade Union History
NEW ZEALAND HISTORY IN THE MAKING (1938)
Unemployed workers, relief workers, heavy machinery operators, construction workers, riveters, tunnellers, railway workshop engineers, farmers, fruit pickers, motor assembly workers, dental nurses.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kbiCoylMfA
NEW ZEALAND MARCHES ON (1938) Nga Taonga F4398
Workers on public works projects in an era of mechanisation.
View at https://www.ngataonga.org.nz/search-use-collection/search/F4398/
SUNSHINE PROVINCE (1938)
Tobacco pickers, hop pickers, fruit pickers, fruit packers in Nelson.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J3cmV-IRJU
FROM BACKBLOCKS TO HIGH SEAS (1939)
Seamen, telegraph operators, teleprinter operators, radio operators, aircrew, bellboys.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBFwTtS4Pl0
RAILWAYS OF THE PACIFIC WONDERLAND (1939)
Railway workshop engineers, engine drivers, freight loaders, wharfies, signalmen, guards, firemen.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQv7P4VA4mI
WOMEN AT WAR (c1940)
Women working in munitions factories and other war-related industries.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__JIkmQ3lZI
AMERICAN ENVOY, SMOKE WITHOUT FIRE; ETC. (1942)
Women machinists.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo7bIR1aiNE
BOOTS AND ALL (1942)
Factory bootmakers.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw6GCXt5DDs
CHILDREN WITHOUT SCHOOLS (1942)
Teachers.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q_uZUJ7Z_w
FROM RADIOS TO GRENADES (1942)
Female factory workers.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsjCjrTfT9w
HOME FRONT – WOMEN IN TRANSPORT, ARMY…. ARMOURED CAVALRY (1942)
Female tram conductors, lines maintenance workers, tram drivers, railway porters.
Not currently available online. See Archive record here.
MAKING TIN HATS, BOMB DISPOSAL, RESCUE (1942)
Metal workers making steel helmets.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw7K9H4wNtU
THEY TOIL AND SPIN (1942)
Woollen mill workers, spinners, knitters.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZfzYpzEfuM
WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 67 (1942)
Shipbuilders; female ambulance officers.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpTIKcDkuls
WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 70 (1942)
Munitions manufacturing workers.
Not currently available online.
Archives NZ record
Nga Taonga record
WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 106 (1942)
Factory workers making batteries.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNtNMdxS84E
WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 108 (1943)
Female plant nursery workers at Ruakara state farm.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1s9vca_6AA
WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 123 (1943)
Kindergarten teachers; metalworkers making munitions.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aabq1TJkttM
WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 128 (1943)
Factory workers making toothpaste tubes.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5yeLvApN84
WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 146 (1944)
Linen flax factory workers.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq528MBH-e8
WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 166 (1944)
Coal miners, truck drivers, heavy machinery operators, engine drivers.
Not currently available online.
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HOUSING IN NEW ZEALAND (1945)
Labourers, tilers, carpenters and other tradespeople contribute to the building of postwar state housing.
Not currently available online.
REHABILITATION AND YOU (1945)
Public servants, builders, farm labourers, farmers, orchardists, watchmakers….
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmQ8rSnr_-U
VEHICLE RECLAMATION IN NEW ZEALAND (1945)
Motor assembly workers.
Not currently available online.
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WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 193 (1945)
Seamen, ship’s officers and telecommuniations technicians laying Cook Strait cable.
Not currently available online.
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WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 202 (1945)
Radio operators, radio technicians.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgL7OyXwP9A
HOUSING IN NEW ZEALAND (1946) [Part 1 of 2]
Architects.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a42UnqSKMyo
HOUSING IN NEW ZEALAND (1946) [Part 2 of 2]
Architects, public servants, builders, plumbers.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbgu8fluKug
THE STORY OF MOLESWORTH (1946)
Farmers, rabbiters, hunters.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew5umOL806w
TAUPO FIRES (1946)
Firefighters.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIt00NZe1dc
WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 227 (1946)
Occupational therapists, nurses.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAuPQqGUs10
WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 257 (1946)
District nurses, teachers (East Coast).
Not currently available online.
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WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 263 (1946)
Seamen, ship maintenance workers.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwnNzPq8KM8
WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 271: ROUND-UP ON MOLESWORTH (1946)
Cattle musterers on a back-country Marlborough station.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZk-__Eyzeg
CHRISTCHURCH FIRE (1947)
Firefighters.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zshOyyfQ4ng
(EXHIBITION LOOP) [NFU AT WORK] (1947)
Filmmakers.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqbHA8kuysg
POWER FROM THE RIVER (1947)
The work of linesmen, electrical engineers, power controllers, farm workers, musicians, and hydro construction workers at a time of electricity shortage.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmY52eeM2ZM or
http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/power-from-the-river-1947
WANGANELLA SAVED (1947)
Seamen.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ocuzo0gCnA
WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 280: PATTERNS IN FLAX (1947)
Maori flax weavers, textile mill workers, flax workers.
Not currently available online.
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WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 287 (1947) [excerpt]
Firefighters.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdGABsZ_dX4
WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 293: CULTURE…. MUSIC AND CHILDREN (1947)
Musicians in the newly established National Orchestra.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOcW0iqAYhQ
WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 306 (1947)
Construction workers, tunnellers, Tekapo power scheme.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FrQQmBFmm8
WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 324: MAORI SCHOOL (1947)
Teachers at a Maori school on the East Coast.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG4ckBmtZK8
WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 332: HOKIANGA…. BACKBLOCK MEDICAL SERVICE (1948)
The work of visiting doctors and district nurses in remote settlements.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=463RVMYBqEg
WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 344: THE CHANGE-OVER (1948)
Air traffic controllers, pilots, company directors, aircraft mechanics, upholsterers, technical instructors, painters, operations managers, stewards.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac-LPAH_-LI
WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 351 (1948)
Hydro engineers, tunnellers, Cobb River scheme.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wETnPK9UxcA
WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 354 (1948)
Tailors, sewing machinists; clockmakers.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e12wP5461Ms
WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 355: RAILWAY WORKER (1948) Nga Taonga F30569
Workers for NZ railways in a variety of occupations.
View at http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/railway-worker-1948
WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 374: THE COASTER (1948) Nga Taonga F9045
Seamen aboard a coastal shipping vessel.
View at http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/the-coaster-1948 or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBCwFdVMcTE
WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 382: “THIS IS THE WEATHER OFFICE” (1948)
Weather forecasters.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTEyhNdukPg
EFFICIENT MACHINE MILKING (1949)
Dairy farm workers.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAr0zKolAt4
FROM POTTER’S WHEEL TO MASS PRODUCTION (1949)
Potters, pottery workers.
View at https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/weekly-review-413-potters-wheel-1949
HIGH COUNTRY FARM (1949)
Farmers, drovers on a Mackenzie Country station.
View at https://www.ngataonga.org.nz/search-use-collection/search/F8356/
MEET NEW ZEALAND – THE SHAPE OF THE LAND (1949)
Wharfies, farmers, shearers, rouseabouts, cattle drovers, farm labourers.
Not currently available online.
MEET NEW ZEALAND – INDUSTRY AND TRANSPORT (1949)
Sawmillers, freezing workers, factory workers, carpenters, metalworkers, scientists, lab technicians, railway workshop engineers, drivers, freight handlers, flight attendants, service station attendants, farmers, cattle drovers.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAXl6tZY3yw
MEET NEW ZEALAND – THE PEOPLE (1949)
Teachers, dental nurses, Plunket nurses, doctors, nurses, musicians.
Not currently available on line.
THE STORY OF A STORE (1949) Nga Taonga F3344
Retail workers at the Hays Department Store in Christchurch.
View at https://www.ngataonga.org.nz/search-use-collection/search/F3344/
WETLANDS MADE FERTILE (1949)
Farmers, drainage advisors, trench digger operators, drainlayers.
View at https://www.ngataonga.org.nz/search-use-collection/search/F876/
WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 390 (1949)
Wharfies; builders erect a prefabricated aluminium house.
Not currently available online.
Archives NZ record
WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 396 (1949)
Ornithologists excavating moa bones.
Not currently available online.
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WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 405 (1949)
Hydro-electric maintenance engineers, heavy machinery operators, drillers.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K_AHoISrrk
WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 410 (1949)
Lime handlers.
Not currently available online.
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WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 411: HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER…. MARAETAI (1949)
Hydraulic engineers and hydro contruction workers plan and build the Maraetai power station.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWI8EcjElS0
WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 427 (1949)
Textile workers and laboratory staff at a nylon factory.
Not currently available online.
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WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 428 (1949)
Wharfies, seamen on a Northland scow, dairy factory workers; forest firefighters.
Not currently available online.
Archives NZ record
Nga Taonga record
WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 434: GOLDEN BAY (1949)
Dairy farmers, wharfies, miners, cement plant workers, local body officers, hydro engineers, plumbers, painters
Not currently available online.
Archives NZ record
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CITY DISTRICT HEALTH NURSE (1950)
Nurses.
Not currently available online.
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Nga Taonga record
WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 438: FIFTY-FOUR FORTY SOUTH (1950)
Meteorologists, sailors, scientists journey to Campbell and MacQuarrie Islands.
Not currently available online.
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THE FIRST TWO YEARS AT SCHOOL (1950)
Teachers.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kltVYIypadU
NEW ZEALAND FLAX (1950)
Flax workers.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x55pssmuVCU
NEW ZEALAND THOROUGHBRED (1950)
Stud farmers, farm assistants, vets, lab technicians, grooms, trainers, jockeys.
View at https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/the-new-zealand-thoroughbred-1950
NEW ZEALAND’S DEEP SEA FIGHTING FISH (1950)
Big game fishing skippers
Not currently available online.
Nga Taonga record
ROCK BOTTOM AT WAIKAREMOANA (1950)
Divers, camera operators.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O6y1x0Dmsc
WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 436 (1950)
Nurses, cooks, teachers at a factory kindergarten; seamen, glassmakers.
Not currently available online.
Archives NZ record
NEW ZEALAND MIRROR NO. 8 (1950)
Hydro engineers, tunnellers, Cobb River scheme;
Not currently available online.
Archives NZ record
Nga Taonga record
BEECH FORESTERS (1951)
Loggers, forest conservators, sawmillers, saw doctors, carpenters, bus builders, surveyors, biologists.
Not currently available online.
Nga Taonga record
CATTLE TRAIL (1951)
Cattle musterers, West Coast.
Not currently available online.
Archives NZ record
FIGHTING FINS (1951)
Big game fishing skippers.
Not currently available online.
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BUSHMAN (1952)
Timber workers, drivers, teachers, housewives.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxfuvOPtpFk
CHRISTCHURCH GARDEN CITY OF NEW ZEALAND (1952)
Plunket nurses, Karitane nurses, sheep drovers, farmers, tulip growers.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8PVvm71DPk
THE ENCIRCLING SEA (1952)
Wharfies, seamen, fishermen, boat builders.
Not currently available online.
Archives NZ record
Nga Taonga record
FARMING IN NEW ZEALAND (1952)
Farmers and farm labourers.
View at https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/farming-in-new-zealand-1952
TAURANGA, BAY OF PLENTY (1952)
Fruit pickers, fruit packers.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCGaqbT4G5k
TUBERCULOSIS AND THE MAORI PEOPLE OF THE WAIROA DISTRICT (1952)
District nurses, radiographers, doctors.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF6cOgpCPp8
MOUNT COOK (1953)
Ski instructors.
View at https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/mount-cook-1951
TELEPHONE TALK (1953)
Cable layers, telecommunications engineers, farmers.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j40hDdzAW_w
NEW ZEALAND MIRROR NO. 3 (1953)
Shearers; drillers, geothermal workers.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYSQ4H87yLU
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 3 (1953)
Shearers; concrete workers, construction workers, explosives experts, heavy machinery operators at Whakamaru.
View at https://www.ngataonga.org.nz/search-use-collection/search/F3900/
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 4 (1953)
Cattle drovers, central North Island.
Not currently available online.
Nga Taonga record
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 6 (1953)
Jam factory workers, fruit pickers.
Not currently available online.
Nga Taonga record
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 9 (1953)
Concrete workers building new Auckland wharf.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP3Rqpx4exo
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 14 (1953)
Telephone switchboard operators, telecommunications engineers; sailors, naval officers, surveyors.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhAPZzTlZ2c
GRADUATE HARVEST (1954)
Lecturers, researchers and farmers at Massey College.
Not currently available online.
Nga Taonga record
PUMICELANDS (1954)
Scientists, surveyors, heavy machine operators, tractor drivers, labourers, topdressing pilots, auctioneers, farmers, telephone technicians, builders.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dvF0EwuEuQ
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 22 (1954)
Wildlife field workers; tunnellers at work on the Rimutuka tunnel.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMzro2IvHaw
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 25 (1954)
Timber workers, sawmillers, pulp & paper workers, construction workers, railway workers, wharfies, foresters.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XlgWlKQvBk
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 28 (1954)
Engine drivers, shunters, railway workshop engineers, firemen, tourist guides.
Not currently available online.
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HOT EARTH (1955)
Geothermal power station workers, heating engineers, masseurs.
View at https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/hot-earth-1955
INTRODUCING NEW ZEALAND (1955)
Wharfies, shearers, musterers, freezing workers, factory workers, railway workshop engineers, bus drivers, farm workers, dental nurses, hospital nurses.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OGuF-O3NNw
THE SNOWLINE IS THEIR BOUNDARY (1955)
Farmers and shepherds working on a large South Island sheep station.
View at https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/the-snowline-is-their-boundary-1955
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 34 (1955)
Customs and quarantine inspectors, biologists, fumigators.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jReqOOpEuPU
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 35 (1955)
Railcar drivers; heavy machinery operators; draughtsmen, welders, engineers.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7g_EPwDg38
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 38 (1955)
Tradesmen training as divers.
Not currently available online.
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PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 39 (1955)
Model makers, architects; Waikato hydro projects: power controllers, welders, electrical engineers, construction labourers, carpenters, mechanics, drivers, heavy machinery operators.
Not currently available online.
Archives NZ record
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 43 (1955)
Railway workers weld and lay tracks for the Rimutaka tunnel; Fell engine drivers and firemen.
Not currently available online.
Archives NZ record
Nga Taonga record
KEEPING IN TOUCH (1956)
Telegraph operators, radio operators, postal workers, telephone switchboard operators, telephone technicians.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qstC5jEMheA
A LETTER TO THE TEACHER (1956)
Correspondence School teachers.
View at https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/a-letter-to-the-teacher-1957
NEW ZEALAND RAILWAY MAGAZINE (1956)
Workers for the railways welding and laying tracks, and building locomotives at the Dunedin workshops.
Not currently available online.
Nga Taonga record
PEOPLE OF THE WAIKATO (1956)
Hydro-electric workers, construction labourers, farmers, river boatmen.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g901rcBqHg
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 44 (1956)
Musterers and pilots carry out the spring round-up on Molesworth Station in Marlborough.
Not currently available online.
Archives NZ record
Nga Taonga record
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 45: ROXBURGH WORK-DAY (1956)
Surveyors, crane drivers, project engineers, building inspectors, chemists, lab technicians, welders, concrete workers, electrical engineers, riggers, labourers at work on the Roxburgh dam project.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEXcVHCKtr4
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 48 (1956)
Marine engineers.
Not currently available online.
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PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 49 (1956)
Carpenters, builder’s labourers, masons, painters; construction workers, divers, engineers at Whakamaru dam.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPMarhUJ9sI
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 52 (1956)
Geophysicists, pilots, at Mt. Ngauruhoe; construction workers at completion of Roxburgh dam.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVebdKvbXDQ
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 55 (1956)
Boat builders working with fibreglass.
Not currently available online.
Archives NZ record
OIL SEARCH IN NEW ZEALAND (1957)
Drillers, geologists in Taranaki.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ14Q0INRB0
SAFE CARGO HANDLING (1957)
Safety on the wharves: ship’s officers, port supervisors, watersiders.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z41pdRS3LPs
WHEREVER WE MAY WORK (1957)
Industrial accidents.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6-V6iJJnFY
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 60 (1957)
Heavy machine operators and construction workers building the Mercer power station.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqXFdYegoKc
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 63 (1957)
The Kawerau sawmill and pulp & paper mill: timber workers, drivers, railway workers, sawmillers, pulp & paper workers, laboratory workers.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF-ZCuyh0zE
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 64 (1957)
Frogmen, winch operators; air traffic controllers.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG2IuVIwR1E
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 65: THE CHANGING RAILWAYS (1957)
Train drivers, firemen, shunters, loaders, mechanics, traffic controllers at work in the dying days of steam.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VbvxPq1Qn0
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 66 (1957)
Construction workers, Mercer, Atiamuri and Wairakei power stations; schoolteachers, architects.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I994sGV2v18
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 67 (1957)
Roadbuilders, heavy machinery operators.
Not currently available online.
Archives NZ record
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 69 (1957)
Harbour engineers, heavy machinery operators, building new port at Bluff.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFX7IeJp9b4
BORN IN NEW ZEALAND (1958)
Plunket nurses, Karitane nurses, doctors.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mivWSAwM1Ss
GENERAL WHARF SAFETY (1958)
Wharfies demonstrate dangers of accident on the job; features Ted Thompson of the Watersiders’ Union.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOOznOQeZ6Q
SHEARING TECHNIQUE (1958)
The method of sheep shearing developed by Godfrey and Ivan Bowen.
View at https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/shearing-techniques-1958
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 78 (1958)
Teachers, nurses at health camp.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDB767cglzM
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 79 (1958)
Heavy machine operators, carpenters, surveyors, tilers, road builders.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNdTlGRsQvw
LAND FROM THE SKY (1959)
Topdressing pilots, farmers, loader drivers, soil conservators, helicopter pilots.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TTlnGq5WwM
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 87 (1959)
Fruit pickers, fruit packers, shearers, harvester operators, cannery workers,
frozen food workers.
Not currently available online.
Archives NZ record
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 90 (1959)
Gold assayers; power station workers, hydro construction workers.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zPb8Dbf9_8
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 92 (1959)
Quarry workers, drivers, cement plant workers, packers; river engineers, heavy machinery operators.
Not currently available online.
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Nga Taonga record
HILL COUNTRY (1960)
Farmers, bus drivers, agricultural contractors, shepherds, shearers, auctioneers, topdressing pilots.
Not currently available online.
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THE MAORI TODAY (1960)
Construction workers, lecturers, carvers, welfare officers, teachers, motor mechanics, artists, farm labourers, fishermen….
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqi4oKDWOzg
OUR STARS OF BALLET (1960)
Ballet dancers.
View at https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/our-stars-of-ballet-1960
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 98 (1960)
Railway tracklayers, construction workers, road builders, carpenters, telecommunications engineers.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqt-VIjmypA
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 100 (1960)
Construction workers, engineers, divers build a new port at Bluff.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pah0M4sSksc
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 104 (1960)
Police officers.
Not currently available online.
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PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 105 (1960)
Primary teachers at Hawke’s Bay schools.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIK244Y6pws
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 108 (1960)
Process workers engaged in toy manufacture.
Not currently available online.
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GLAD THEY CAME (1961)
Bank tellers, receptionists, service station attendants, grocers, taxi drivers, bus drivers….
Not currently available online.
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PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 113 (1961)
Public servants; shepherds, shearers; tobacco pickers.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so6yTOGVPoE
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 119 (1961)
Doctors, teachers, occupational therapists at intellectually handicapped school; toll collectors, road rescue mechanics (Auckland Harbour Bridge).
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxclGqyITUA
GLENMARK (1962)
Farmers, farm labourers, topdressing pilots, surveyors, soil conservators battle flooding and erosion in North Canterbury.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7JQdo35DiY
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 122 (1962)
Ship builders.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1iMCt792kc
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 125 (1962)
Bridge engineers, heavy machine operators; hop pickers, hop factory workers.
Not currently available online.
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PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 128 (1962)
Carpenters, scientists, artists, carvers; sailors, lighthouse keepers.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9av1osUceQ
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 132 (1962) [partial]
Electricity construction workers erecting towers for the Benmore power cable.
Not currently available online.
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ALPINE AIRWAYS (1963)
Radio operators, pilots, Forest Service workers, hunters.
View at https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/alpine-airways-1963
BALLET IN NEW ZEALAND (1963)
Ballet dancers.
View at https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/ballet-in-new-zealand-1963
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 138 (1963)
Wharfies at Bluff operating new meat loader; Marine and Works Departments workers servicing West Coast lighthouse.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBUpy-bOHHs
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 146 (1963)
Engine drivers, firemen, guards, railway traffic managers, computer operators, auctioneers.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPvvpFM-fgs
NORTH-EAST CORNER (1964)
Whalers, seamen, pilots, cattle musterers (Molesworth Station), shepherds.
Not currently available online.
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ONE IN A THOUSAND (1964)
Psychiatric doctors, lab technicians, psychiatric nurses, occupational therapists, teachers.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqbXmki6vck
THESE NEW ZEALANDERS NO. 3, BENMORE (1964)
Surveyors, drillers, bulldozer drivers, hydro construction workers, project engineers, retailers, heavy machinery operators, electrical engineers.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5L5bjdTOcA
THESE NEW ZEALANDERS NO. 5, MOTUEKA (1964)
Hop growers, hop pickers, tobacco pickers, police officers, Post Office tellers, bartenders, apple pickers, apple graders and packers.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OGuF-O3NNw
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 158 (1964)
Workers at a Christchurch carpet mill.
Not currently available online.
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THE FIRST HALF-MILLION VOLT D.C. TRANSMISSION LINE (1965)
Surveyors, electricity construction workers, heavy machinery operators, electrical engineers.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9zdz780l-U
THE NEW NURSE (1965)
Nurses.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvlFGIZdY9E
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 168 (1965)
Architectural model makers.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djMXjraVhYI
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 169 (1965)
Tunnellers, road builders and maintenance engineers on the Manapouri Power Project.
Not currently available online.
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PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 170 (1965)
Chemists at the DSIR.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1iMCt792kc
CASE HISTORY (1966)
Fruit pickers, cool store workers, packers, apple cannery workers, wharfies, fruit buyers, greengrocers, botanists.
Not currently available online.
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INTER-ISLAND POWER (1966)
Electricity construction workers, cable layers, electricians.
Not currently available online.
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ROADS TO ROAM (1966)
Road builders, surveyors, heavy machine operators.
Not currently available online.
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PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 179 (1966)
Doctors, nurses and physiotherapists assist rheumatoid arthritis sufferers, while scientists research the disease.
Not currently available online.
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PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 182 [extract]: WOOL GATHERING (1966)
Shearers, woolstore workers, wool buyers.
Not currently available online.
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PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 183 (1966)
Engine drivers, firemen.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1vjD7xbNMg
or https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/pictorial-parade-no-183-1966
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 195 (1967)
Coal miners, engine drivers, railwaymen, West Coast.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_efpsVq5Wc
or https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/pictorial-parade-195-after-ninety-years-1967
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 197 (1967)
The Government Printing Office: stenographers, printers, illustrators; factory workers in golf ball manufacture.
Not currently available online.
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PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 206 (1968)
Farmers, truck drivers, oyster farmers; airport cargo handlers; models; traffic controllers, toll equipment engineers.
Not currently available online.
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PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 209 (1968)
Crew on seismic survey vessel, radio operators.
Not currently available online.
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PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 210 (1968)
Fruit pickers, fruit packers.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5ab7h36OCY
BRED TO WIN (c1969)
Stud masters, grooms, vets, auctioneers, jockeys, trainers, farriers.
View at https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/bred-to-win-1968
PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 216 (1969)
Teachers, Mount Cook School, Wellington.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPoDCJpM758
THE PATH TO POWER (1970)
Construction workers on the Manapouri Power Project.
Not currently available online.
Nga Taonga record
TONGARIRO POWER (1970)
Tunnellers, heavy machinery operators, construction workers, drillers, mechanics, welders on the Tongariro power scheme.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Kbg9_z0fGo
A BABY ON THE WAY (1971)
Doctors, physiotherapists, nurses in maternity care.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC2OKNDEB9A
DUSTIE (1971)
The working lives of Wellington rubbish collectors.
View at http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/dustie-1971
AN INCH TO A MILE (1971)
Pilots, navigators, surveyors, map makers.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZZjFdudLjM
ALEXANDER TURNBULL’S LIBRARY (1972)
Librarians, filmmakers, writers, auctioneers, picture researchers.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuvhLDhizm0
TO HELP A CRIPPLED CHILD (1972)
Doctors, teachers, nurses, social workers.
View at https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/to-help-a-crippled-child-1972
SKYLINK (1973)
Pilots, air traffic controllers, flight attendants, aircrew.
Not currently available online.
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10TH COMMONWEALTH GAMES PROGRESS REPORT (1973)
Typists, organizers, architects, engineers, builders, draughtsmen
Not currently available online.
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A TRAIN FOR CHRISTMAS (1975)
Engine drivers, firemen, signalmen, guards on the Kingston Flyer.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTZsWAfnqJc
THE BAIT (1977)
Big game fishing skippers.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwdUGxytZx0
FERRIES (1980)
Seamen, cooks & stewards.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVR9h8v8-PY
STUDIO TOUR (1981)
Filmmakers at the National Film Unit.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GCrHlLKkWI
THE FACE OF DIOXINS (1985) Nga Taonga F51777
Workers in the chemical and timber processing industries being poisoned by dioxins.
Not currently available online.
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LACK OF HOPE (c1988)
The struggles facing unemployed workers, particularly Maori, in Taranaki and Auckland.
Not currently available online.
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THE NIGHT WORKERS (1989) Nga Taonga F26129
Late-night workers in Wellington’s red-light district.
View at https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/the-night-workers-1989
HEARTLAND: THOSE SHOWPEOPLE (1996)
Itinerant show workers.
Not currently available online.
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PROSTITUTION – AFTER THE ACT (2005)
The situation for sex workers following the 2003 Prostitution Reform Act.
Not currently available online.
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THE REAL OFFICE (2006) Nga Taonga F91123
Life on the job for office workers.
Not currently available online.
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COUNTRY CALENDAR. SHARING LAND (2008) Nga Taonga F106746
The working life of a sharemilking couple.
Not currently available online.
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NATIONAL BANK COUNTRY CALENDAR 2009. FROM THE ISLANDS (2009)
Pacific Island seasonal workers in NZ orchards and pack-houses.
Not currently available online.
Nga Taonga record
COUNTRY CALENDAR. 10/04/2010 (2010)
Working conditions for logging gangs, focusing on the high accident rate.
Not currently available online.
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MINING STOCKTON (c2010)
Miners, heavy machinery operators, managers, conservation workers at the Stockton open-cast coal mine on the West Coast.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL32SQmC66M
THE GREEN CHAIN (2011) Nga Taonga F216126
Poisoning by dioxins of workers in timber processing.
View at http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/the-green-chain-2011
STRONGMAN: THE TRAGEDY (2012) Nga Taonga F221815
The 1967 explosion at the Strongman coal mine on the West Coast.
Not currently available online.
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DESCENT FROM DISASTER: STRONGMAN MINE EXPLOSION 1967 (2013)
The 1967 explosion at the Strongman coal mine on the West Coast.
View at https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/descent-from-disaster-2013/series