The New Zealand Film Institute Permanent Collection

Film Societies in New Zealand source many of their films from the permanent collection of the New Zealand Federation of Film Societies (previously known as the New Zealand Film Institute). Below you can see the growth of that collection up until 1969, covering the period for which the Canterbury Film Society has only incomplete records for our own screenings.

1948

Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Birth of a Nation
Kameradschaft
Battleship Potemkin
Metropolis
Mother
The Blue Angel
Passion of Joan of Arc

1949

Critic & Film No.1.
No.2.
No.3.
Rain
Seashell & Clergyman
The Earth Sings
Brahms Hungarian Dance
Edwardian Newsreel

1950

The Italian straw Hat
The Last Laugh
Le Million
Drawings That Walk & Talk

1951

Berlin

1952

Intolerance
Menilmontant
The Loons Necklace

1953

Back of Beyond
Hot Earth
Kotuku
Easy street

1955

Selection of Early Films
Two Education films of 1910
Early Actualities
The Adventurer
Carmen
Papageno
The Champion
The Chef
Chaplin's First Films
Dough & Dynamite

1956

Oh What a Night
Ham Artists
In the Bank
Mabel's Busy Day
Mor Vran
His Trysting Plaoe
Early Triok Films
The Hague
L'Idee

1957

The New Janitor
Paris Qui Dort
Black or White
Safety Last
Long Pants
Nice Time
Momma Don't Allow
Together
Romance Sentimentale
Tango Tangle

1958

Down to Earth
Figures in Landscape
One A.M.
Tell tale Heart
Waxworks

1959

Sang D'un Poete
O Dreamland
Pleasure Garden
Time out of War
The Vision of Wm. Blake
Critic & Film No.4.
Die Driegroschenoper

1960

The Pawnshop
The Great Train Robbery
The Cure
Castaway

1961

The Covered Wagon
Cops
Boobs in the Woods
Never Weaken

1962

Hells Hinges
Critic & Film No.5.
Chinese Theatre
Hurry Hurry

1963

The Stuntman
The Messenger
Double Whoopee
Love Speed and Thrills
Sound of Seeing
Te Kooti Trail

1964

The Informer

1965

Critic & Film Series: The Overlanders & Great Expectations
Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci
Rowlandson's England
Rescued by Rover

1966

Noumea is Noumea
Tolable David

1967

Devi
Magnificent Andersons
Ashes and Diamonds
Tokyo Story
Tora-Ho-O
Shop on Main Street
Piter and Pavla
Death of a Cyclist
May have been the travelling programme for that year

1968

Eroica
5000 Fingers
Ashes and Diamonds
Seven Samurai
Intimate Righting Egich
Two Daughters
La Grande Illusion
May have been the travelling programme for that year

1969

Bavicin(sp?)
She and He
Man Who Had his Hair Cut (short)
Mani Sulla Bitta
+ french films from Embassy
La Belle and La Bete
Learosse D'or
Breathless
Paris Du Pan
Le Visitears du Sois
La Luavursei de Paris
May have been the travelling programme for that year

Some of the hand-written records were difficult to decipher, so any hints for the correct names of films would be most appreciated.

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