Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
To celebrate the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, welcome to Archives New Zealand's Rustic Cinema. For your viewing pleasure, we have curated four programmes with film excerpts from the National Film Unit and other government agencies which showcase how we saw ourselves and how we wanted the world to see us."
This is New Zealand. Duration: 50mins
Our Grand Finale! The three-screen sensation that was considered one of the best films of Expo ’70. It’s return home saw record crowds at cinemas and multiple sell-out sessions. A time capsule of Aotearoa of 1970, it conveys who we were, what we did, our passions and our past times. It demonstrates technologies not seen in NZ filmmaking before or since. Preceded by This Is Expo – behind the scenes footage of the World Expo in Osaka, Japan in 1970.
00:00 Commercial: NZ is yours - Go there now!
01:05 Short film: This is Expo
22.01 Commercial: NZ is Yours - Go there now! (Nightlife)
23:02 This Is New Zealand
43.50 End
To celebrate the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, welcome to Archives New Zealand's Rustic Cinema. For your viewing pleasure, we have curated four programmes with film excerpts from the National Film Unit and other government agencies which showcase how we saw ourselves and how we wanted the world to see us."
This is New Zealand. Duration: 50mins
Our Grand Finale! The three-screen sensation that was considered one of the best films of Expo ’70. It’s return home saw record crowds at cinemas and multiple sell-out sessions. A time capsule of Aotearoa of 1970, it conveys who we were, what we did, our passions and our past times. It demonstrates technologies not seen in NZ filmmaking before or since. Preceded by This Is Expo – behind the scenes footage of the World Expo in Osaka, Japan in 1970.
00:00 Commercial: NZ is yours - Go there now!
01:05 Short film: This is Expo
22.01 Commercial: NZ is Yours - Go there now! (Nightlife)
23:02 This Is New Zealand
43.50 End
