The Norman Blackie Collection

DescriptionNorman Blackie (1899-1993) was an amateur filmmaker who lived much of his life in Tauranga. He was most active between the years 1932 and 1954. He and his wife Odine moved to Tauranga in 1942 where he worked as a secretary for a local sawmilling company. He was a member of the Tauranga Movie Club. A camera he used, the Keystone Model A-7 16mm movie camera sits within the Tauranga Heritage Collection (0007/19).

In 1999 Tauranga Library deposited some 22 Norman Blackie films with Ngā Taonga and some of these have been accessible at Ngā Taonga online for many years.

In 2021 the Tauranga City Libraries' Heritage and Research team began to arrange for these films to be digitised at high quality. The first of these, are viewable below. See also this 5-minute introduction as part of The Past and the Curious talks.

CreatorBlackie, Norman, 1899-1993

Audio Visual Files

Cameron Road - 1950

Coronation festivities (1953)

Walter Nash visits Huria Marae, and more from 1957-1960

Speedboats, a beauty contest and building demolished - 1960

Orange Festival 1962

Orange Festival and the Thai Royal Visit - 1962

Anzac Day Parades, 1962 - 1976

Orange Festivals from 1962 to 1979

Coloured Fountain & Royal Visit - 1963

Tauranga 1964 - Newsreel

Orange Festival 1967

Opening of Tauranga Airport, Highland Games - 1967

Royal Visit to Tauranga - 23 March 1970 and 1977

Orange Festival 1971

Carving and Launching Te Awanui (1972)

Projector, Kodascope Sixteen-20 (Tauranga Heritage Collection 0012/18/1-2)

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The Norman Blackie Collection