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New Zealand Workers On Screen: Part 1 – On the Job

    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. Some are available to view online on youtube.com and NZ on Screen, the rest can reviewed at the media library at Nga Taonga Sound & Vision in Wellington (www.ngataonga.org.nz).

    Part two of the New Zealand Workers on Screen filmography is here: http://www.lhp.org.nz/?p=1177

    Black and white image of a woman machinist.
    Still of a film of a woman worker

    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 http://www.ngataonga.org.nz/catalogues/moving-image-catalogue/media/new-zealand-marches-on-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.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pqgZ9ifSX4

    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.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEmQEgSs7Fo

    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.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xM6PBs1vsw

    HOUSING IN NEW ZEALAND (1945)
    Labourers, tilers, carpenters and other tradespeople contribute to the building of postwar state housing.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-fXm5PA_RA

    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.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9m8RMHLE4A

    WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 193 (1945)
    Seamen, ship’s officers and telecommuniations technicians laying Cook Strait cable.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46wZSZqEi4E

    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

    WEEKLUY REVIEW NO. 257 (1946)
    District nurses, teachers (East Coast).
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r–0HDszTpc

    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.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLJIGTCd0wM

    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.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz2M2kV17q8

    HIGH COUNTRY FARM (1949)
    Farmers, drovers on a Mackenzie Country station.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvOBCDavpw4

    MEET NEW ZEALAND – THE SHAPE OF THE LAND (1949)
    Wharfies, farmers, shearers, rouseabouts, cattle drovers, farm labourers.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I-w08IHV7k

    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.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J3_j-t66AY

    THE STORY OF A STORE (1949)  Nga Taonga F3344
    Retail workers at the Hays Department Store in Christchurch.

    WETLANDS MADE FERTILE (1949)
    Farmers, drainage advisors, trench digger operators, drainlayers.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-ndk4adakY

    WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 390 (1949)
    Wharfies; builders erect a prefabricated aluminium house.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si3GDJgxmk4

    WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 396 (1949)
    Ornithologists excavating moa bones.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVuvWb-oVQ4

    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.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66ZkxKDjADY

    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.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4Lw8upbcAE

    WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 428 (1949)
    Wharfies, seamen on a Northland scow, dairy factory workers; forest firefighters.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AktwLT6CWmo

    WEEKLY REVIEW NO. 434: GOLDEN BAY (1949)
    Dairy farmers, wharfies, miners, cement plant workers, local body officers, hydro engineers, plumbers, painters
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNnBVuq7mso

    CITY DISTRICT HEALTH NURSE (1950)
    Nurses.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVIyj8iKWOo

    FIFTY-FOUR FORTY SOUTH (1950)
    Meteorologists, sailors, scientists journey to Campbell and MacQuarrie Islands.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhqbKS_dGME

    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.youtube.com/watch?v=db5sv4XoblA

    NEW ZEALAND’S DEEP SEA FIGHTING FISH (1950)
    Big game fishing skippers
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeXSjjGa-20

    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.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVutZRnX-pI

    NEW ZEALAND MIRROR NO. 8 (1950)
    Hydro engineers, tunnellers, Cobb River scheme;
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ARI8ptXFgc

    BEECH FORESTERS (1951)
    Loggers, forest conservators, sawmillers, saw doctors, carpenters, bus builders, surveyors, biologists.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpplBo8hu_U

    CATTLE TRAIL (1951)
    Cattle musterers, West Coast.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgD83rxWIT4

    FIGHTING FINS (1951)
    Big game fishing skippers.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThG0PHHyWAM

    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.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPsYdnRCYio

    FARMING IN NEW ZEALAND (1952)
    Farmers and farm labourers.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t75DZ8TezTk

    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.youtube.com/watch?v=J8dnk5N2i4s

    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.youtube.com/watch?v=4rQkf0uC_xY

    PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 4 (1953)
    Cattle drovers, central North Island.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJjEYl3qS6c

    PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 6 (1953)
    Jam factory workers, fruit pickers.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMgyZybEYp8

    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.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx_UAKUL4lU

    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.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ztlRZ1Hv5k

    HOT EARTH (1955)
    Geothermal power station workers, heating engineers, masseurs.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYPdKfMmb0M

    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 http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/the-snowline-is-their-boundary-1955  or
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wj5bJCwoKI

    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.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haQc7CEahYw

    PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 39 (1955)
    Model makers, architects; Waikato hydro projects: power controllers, welders, electrical engineers, construction labourers, carpenters, mechanics, drivers, heavy machinery operators.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9m8ZgFItGk

    PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 43 (1955)
    Railway workers weld and lay tracks for the Rimutaka tunnel; Fell engine drivers and firemen.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPS5B7HN8jw

    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.youtube.com/watch?v=6nTrpxRN-rY

    NEW ZEALAND RAILWAY MAGAZINE (1956)
    Workers for the railways welding and laying tracks, and building locomotives at the Dunedin workshops.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDdsgQtmsq8

    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.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsB583iDkYY

    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.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB7OyXD4BDg

    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.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDcVLLzmMWs

    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.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwu4Sa2qTTI

    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 http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/shearing-techniques-1958
    or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65cqHTsldxc

    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.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIfm1FlS0xU

    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.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs5xl2eUsl8

    HILL COUNTRY (1960)
    Farmers, bus drivers, agricultural contractors, shepherds, shearers, auctioneers, topdressing pilots.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59U5rbhGxL0

    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.youtube.com/watch?v=DvIDaYpX6hE

    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.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2iwLd3v9Lw

    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.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPFIWypAg1U

    GLAD THEY CAME (1961)
    Bank tellers, receptionists, service station attendants, grocers, taxi drivers, bus drivers….
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pmNhUydc7Q

    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.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yetV5P0U1m8

    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.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEeAowB73nU

    ALPINE AIRWAYS (1963)
    Radio operators, pilots, Forest Service workers, hunters.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0URa7GINcUs

    BALLET IN NEW ZEALAND (1963)
    Ballet dancers.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jHoRWRRltY

    FIREMEN’S SCHOOL (1963)
    Firefighters.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YegQWvtrhPU

    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.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-xGQ928Zfo

    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.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47iXs3LeTOU

    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.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVtcqh9NznM

    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.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vnPa4QwDD4

    INTER-ISLAND POWER (1966)
    Electricity construction workers, cable layers, electricians.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETr_soGU5vg

    ROADS TO ROAM (1966)
    Road builders, surveyors, heavy machine operators.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKei1P3tP9E

    PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 179 (1966)
    Doctors, nurses and physiotherapists assist rheumatoid arthritis sufferers, while scientists research the disease.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNWFBCJqTdc

    PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 183 (1966)
    Engine drivers, firemen.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1vjD7xbNMg

    PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 182 [extract]: WOOL GATHERING (1966)
    Shearers, woolstore workers, wool buyers.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtkbDlJU8_I

    PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 195 (1967)
    Coal miners, engine drivers, railwaymen, West Coast.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_efpsVq5Wc

    PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 197 (1967)
    The Government Printing Office: stenographers, printers, illustrators; factory workers in golf ball manufacture.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ7I5T_01EI

    PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 206 (1968)
    Farmers, truck drivers, oyster farmers; airport cargo handlers; models; traffic controllers, toll equipment engineers.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTNNwQLhtXY

    PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 209 (1968)
    Crew on seismic survey vessel, radio operators.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DrCE4VMTck

    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.youtube.com/watch?v=iA475S4q3Os

    PICTORIAL PARADE NO. 216 (1969)
    Teachers, Mount Cook School, Wellington.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPoDCJpM758

    THE PATH TO POWER (1970)  Nga Taonga F10866
    Construction workers on the Manapouri Power Project.

    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.youtube.com/watch?v=GY0y711l2k8

    SKYLINK (1973)
    Pilots, air traffic controllers, flight attendants, aircrew.
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35QvD-UUyrI

    10TH COMMONWEALTH GAMES PROGRESS REPORT (1973)
    Typists, organizers, architects, engineers, builders, draughtsmen
    View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G9YoMbREhA

    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.

    LACK OF HOPE (c1988)  Nga Taonga F39295
    The struggles facing unemployed workers, particularly Maori, in Taranaki and Auckland.

    THE NIGHT WORKERS (1989)  Nga Taonga F26129
    Late-night workers in Wellington’s red-light district.

    HEARTLAND: THOSE SHOWPEOPLE (1996)  Nga Taonga F56391
    Itinerant show workers.

    PROSTITUTION – AFTER THE ACT (2005)  Nga Taonga F88424
    The situation for sex workers following the 2003 Prostitution Reform Act.

    THE REAL OFFICE (2006)  Nga Taonga F91123
    Life on the job for office workers.

    COUNTRY CALENDAR. SHARING LAND (2008)  Nga Taonga F106746
    The working life of a sharemilking couple.

    NATIONAL BANK COUNTRY CALENDAR 2009. FROM THE ISLANDS (2009)  Nga Taonga F131137
    Pacific Island seasonal workers in NZ orchards and pack-houses.

    COUNTRY CALENDAR. 10/04/2010 (2010)  Nga Taonga F196654
    Working conditions for logging gangs, focusing on the high accident rate.

    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.

    DESCENT FROM DISASTER: STRONGMAN MINE EXPLOSION 1967 (2013)
    The 1967 explosion at the Strongman coal mine on the West Coast.
    View at https://www.tvnz.co.nz/descent-from-disaster/s1-ep3-video-5516886