Another Time

Like the digital ‘mash-up’ concept to come, this 1970 film uses content from more than one source to create something new. In this film collage, relics of visual and material culture from New Zealand museums are combined to evoke life in earlier eras. These objects — from moa skeletons, to scrimshaw, to a stereoscope, and surveys of Māori culture and sex appeal (!) — are mixed with historical footage (including turn of the century Queen Street) and a classical score. Another Time was directed by Arthur Everard for the National Film Unit.

Museums: places used for the collection, storage and display of materials from another time. There are over 80 museums, large and small, private and public, throughout New Zealand.

– From the narration

Key Cast & Crew

Arthur Everard

Director, Writer, Editor

David H Fowler

Producer

John Gordon

Narrator

Geoffrey Scott

Executive Producer

Val Federoff

Sound

David Dry

Camera