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    Kaleidoscope

    Fragment of an Interview with New Zealander ???? on the Love of London. date incorrect not 19/02/1982 as on the tape box, as Kaleidoscope did not air on that date.
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    Kaleidoscope

    This is part of an interview with Barbara Ewing, a New Zealand actor based in England.
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    Kaleidoscope

    A discussion on funding from the Arts Council and how the budgetary cycle works. Accounting and financial year differences affects the planning for those applying for funding. Tony Taylor, Downstage Raymond Hawthorne, Theatre Corporate Caroline Henwood, Circa
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    Kaleidoscope

    1. Michael Fowler has moved from the Wellington City Council to the presidency of the The Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council. He talks about the differences, policy and budgets and how the council should be an advocate for the artists.
  • 0:15:05

    Kaleidoscope

    1. New Zealand Glassworkers and SAGG, The Society of Artworkers in Glass. To coincide with the opening of Pacific Glass '83 at the Auckland Museum they held a week long teaching conference at Inglewood to help develop the art with German glassmaster Johannes Schreiter. Video in Kaleidoscope — VL_90187_01 as well.
  • 0:21:09

    Kaleidoscope

    See Kaleidoscope — VL_90180_01 — 30/09/1983 Profile of Louise Henderson
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    Kaleidoscope

    1. Writer Witi Ihimaera portrays the warmth and loving concern of East coast rural life. His early books were best sellers, and now, after seven years of not publishing anything he has started writing again and presented 'Into the World of Light'. -- 2. Writer Bruce Stewart is part of an emerging school of tough city writing. He has published a jail story 'Broken Arse'.
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    Kaleidoscope

    1. The state of the New Zealand Film industry and whether it can continue to make films in the same way that it has in the past as it is a high risk industry even with the tax breaks. Film financing is also being investigated by the Tax Department.
  • 0:35:00

    Kaleidoscope The Best of 1982

    1. A discussion on magazines and their survival in New Zealand Date correct. Date on box is 05/02/1982 which is wrong.
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    Kaleidoscope

    1. Evelyn Page (artist) talks about her paintings and also about meeting Ngaio Marsh and other celebrities. Along with her husband, musician Freddie Page, who started the Music Department at Victoria University, they discusse contemporary music and other New Zealand painters.
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    Kaleidoscope

    1. The announcement of the Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards. The finalists are: Te Rauparaha: A New Perspective by Patricia Burns (2); The Lovelock Version by Maurice Shadbolt (3); The Teachings of a Maori Elder by Eruera Stirling, told to Anne Salmond (1): Five for the Symbol by C K Stead; Collected Poems by James k Baxter; Portrait of Frances Hodgkins by Eric McCormack; The Oxford History of New Zealand, multiple authors; Diary of the Kirk Years by Margaret Hayward; The Native Trees of New Zealand by Professor John Salmon; Rewi Alley of China by Geoff Chapple. Keynote speaker: Roger Hall. Entertainers: David McPhail and John Gadsby. Judges are: Sharon Crosbie; Max Cryer; Harold White. -- 2. Artist Toss Woollaston talks about the influence of the Suter Gallery in Nelson on his painting. -- 3 A discussion about the trend for publishers to turn out limited editions of books, not particularly for the quality of the book, but for the intrinsic value as a rarity.
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    Kaleidoscope

    Writer Frank Sargeson talks about his interest in Latin and language, writing and the changes in New Zealand and his autobiographies.
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    Kaleidoscope

    1. Theatre Corporate has produced Roger Hall's play 'The Rose' in which the leader has acquired enormous power without people realising the dangers of this. It is a chilling political statement and the production uses sheep noises to indicate the thinking of the masses. -- 2. Books are big business in New Zealander as New Zealanders are passionate readers. There are 100 publishing companies in the country but do they all make money?
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    Kaleidoscope

    1. The David Reid has been conduction the Artwork Summer workshop near Sandy Bay in the Coromandel (report cut off in original recording). -- 2. The Hamilton council has had to make a decision on whether to proceed with an arts museum, proposed for a site on the banks of the Waikato River, or defer this in favour of an expanded public works programme. The council is finely balanced "eight for art, eight for footpaths" and the Mayor's deciding vote went for footpaths, so the museum may get deferred again.
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    Kaleidoscope

    Visiting Russian pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy talks about his beginnings and training in music and music in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic; "Estrada" music, which is a combination of folk music and the improvised music which occurs in variety shows and the classical and modern repertoire.
  • 0:50:33

    Kaleidoscope

    see Kaleidoscope — VA_ORT_1983_0046_02_08 — 23/09/1983 Profile of Bruce Mason
  • 0:44:52

    Kaleidoscope

    See Kaleidoscope — VL_90015_02 — 16/03/1984 The Elegant Shed
  • 0:25:51

    Kaleidoscope

    see Kaleidoscope — VL_90016_03 — 06/04/1984 The Elegant Shed
  • 0:19:16

    Kaleidoscope

    See Kaleidoscope — VL_90015_01 — 09/03/1984 The Elegant Shed
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    Television Promo for Programme Kaleidoscope

    A television promo for programme Kaleidoscope on TV One.
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    Kaleidoscope

    Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).
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    Kaleidoscope

    Kaleidoscope broadcasts the Booker-McConnell Prize award ceremony from London Weekend Television. New Zealand author Kerry Hume wins for her novel, The Bone People. United Kingdom host is Melyvn Bragg.
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    Kaleidoscope - The World of James Joyce

    Episode 2
    James Joyce was born in Dublin 100 years ago. At the age of 20 he left for Paris to begin a self-imposed exile that was to last most of his life. Dublin, however, remained the inspiration for his writing. This film, complete with many previously unseen interviews, shows the obstacles that lay in the path of Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, the books that were to make Joyce one of the most famous and influential writers of this century.
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    Kaleidoscope

    1. Wellington composer Jenny Mcleod sees herself as part of the community but it took some time to find this identity. -- 2. Lion New Zealand is involved in state of the art Yacht Design and every four years these designs come together for the Whitbread Round the World race. New Zealander Ron Holland has designed Lion's latest yacht. Peter Blake talks about what has to be considered for this type of racing. -- 3. The exhibition "Anxious Images" from New Zealand artists looks at our public and private anxieties. -- 4. The craft of instrument making was celebrated in an exhibition for National Music Week - duplicate on VL_90039_01
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    Kaleidoscope

    1. Craftsman and wood turner Paul Mason has had a change in direction since moving from the city to a remote part of Rangitiki. -- 2. New York is America's centre for music and musicians flock there from all over the world including Auckland Lyn Williamson, who writes her own songs and sings them in a piano bar.Her songs still have a Kiwi flavour, such as 'At the Beach'. --3. Australian novelist and Nobel prizewinner, Patrick White, has been in New Zealand to present the first Media Peace prizes. He broke his rule about no television interviews and talked to Gordon McLauchlan. unstable vision throughout
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    Kaleidoscope

    Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).
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    Kaleidoscope

    Broadcast of the 14th Mobil Song Quest from the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington. The introduction includes references to previous winners since the quest began in 1956 as a radio contest Including Patricia Price (1961), Malvina Major (1963), Kiri Te Kanawa (1965) and Christopher Doig (1971). The programme presents the six finalists - recalled form the original 20 - in the final round: Andrea Gerring, Stewart Cameron, Kenneth Cornish, Robyn Lynch, David Griffiths, Shelly Alexander, Lindsay Fergusson Managing Director Mobile Oil, Robert Muldoon Prime Minister. Special Prize: Dame Joan. Hammond Scholarship: Robyn Lynch. Prizewinners are: 3rd Stewart Cameron: 2nd Robyn Lynch: 1st David Griffiths. Judges: Grant Dickson and Ian McKay
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    Kaleidoscope

    Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).
  • 1:00:00

    Kaleidoscope

    Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).
  • 1:00:00

    Kaleidoscope

    Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).
  • 1:00:00

    Kaleidoscope

    Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).
  • 1:00:00

    Kaleidoscope

    Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).
  • 1:00:00

    Kaleidoscope

    Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).
  • 1:00:00

    Kaleidoscope

    Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).
  • 1:00:00

    Kaleidoscope

    Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).
  • 1:00:00

    Kaleidoscope

    Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).
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    Kaleidoscope

    1. The Dance and the Child International (DACI) conference recently held in Auckland recognises that every child regardless of age, race, creed or disability should be able to join into dance. Around the country there are dance classes where some of the tutors are only three or four years older than the children they teach. -- 2 A Vancouver children's theatre company, the Green Thumb Theatre, has been in New Zealand as part of a Pacific tour, producing plays and taking workshops that educationalists and actors thought were rather special. 3. Buying Contemporary Art, getting started as an artist and group collecting. The art collective 'The Future Group' just bought an avant guarde Billy Apple painting. Lawyer Warwick Brown is part of The Prospect Collection and the Forsyth Collection, both started to assist people to start collecting with a lower risk.
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    Kaleidoscope

    Edwina Thorn is a trumpeter and leader of the all female band "Pink Terrace". She is interviewed on her background. Her professional career started a 12 with Max Cryer and the Kids and later she joined Roger Fox and his Big Band and moved into jazz.
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    Kaleidoscope

    New Zealand feminist artist Vivian Lynn is installing a major work - Lamella Asherim- in Studio 8 at the Avalon Television Centre ready for a recording tonight, and a showing in the morning. It involves setting up almost invisible nylon threads and 15 columns all of which need meticulous adjustment. Vivian talks about her work in between working on setting up the installation and working around the studio lighting director, Howard Anderson, trying to light it for television. Vivian also needs to assess what the installation will look like on television, rather than in an exhibition hall. Composer Sue Alexander needs to compose and record a short piece to be played at the recording
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    Kaleidoscope

    A profile of actor Ian Mune and his many contributions to theatre and the entertainment business. He talks about his career, and the films and plays he has been part of.
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    Kaleidoscope

    1. Roger Donaldson, has played an important part in the renaissance of film in New Zealand. He has moved to the USA and gives his views of the Hollywood film industry. -- 2.'Art for All' "20 Years ago Today" and how that record summed up a whole generation and introduced 'pop culture'. This was a new explosion of the arts, and it requires marketing to make the them successful. -- 3. Elephants, of corrugated iron, and other animals have found their way to Albert Park in Auckland. Creator Geoff Thompson, who made his name with quirky letterboxes, talks about creating the extraordinary out of the very ordinary.
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    Kaleidoscope

    1. Wellington print and paper artist Kate Coolahan talks about her work and about saying things to women across time, and when great change is taking place. only 30 minutes of the programme recorded.
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    Kaleidoscope

    1. A large group of new designers have entered the field of furniture design in New Zealand recently. Auckland designer Carin Wilson has been a key figure in this and reports on the exhibitions he has attended and the furniture displayed. Carin's own work includes "The Royal Pain in the Arse" chair and he also talks about it's design. -- 2. Debate around the Wellington City Council "Arts bonus Scheme", and who benefits - the developer or the city?
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    Kaleidoscope - Prints and Printmakers Compilation

    Compilation from several previous programmes on prints and printmakers. 1. It covers the history of printing, and printing in New Zealand, including the early printmakers of the Quoin Club and the father of New Zealand art printing, E Mervyn Taylor. The different techniques used are demonstrated by John Drawbridge who talks about their origins and the work produced. Rodney Fumpston talks about the inspiration from his garden. -- 2. There are various reasons an artist decides to use a print to express an idea and painter Pat Hanley thinks the advantage of prints is both their graphic qualities and that a lot of people can have them. Printmaker Mervyn Williams can make the decision of whether to print or paint by convenience of getting an idea on paper. -- 3. The process of lithography is laborious and Katherine Shine demonstrates the steps involved. Brian James specialises in wood block printing. -- 4. Kate Coolahan makes her own paper and demonstrates the process. Stanley Palmer is one of the few printmakers who makes his own ink. Carol Shepherd makes what she calls 'assemblages', compositions based around an traditional etching. Paul Hartigan uses colour photocopy machines to create his works - but isn't that just reproduction? -- 5. The programme discusses how printmakers get around the problem of owning printing machines, and the specialist galleries, like Ginko Studios in Christchurch are being set up to help them, and market their work. Architect Ron Sang has designed a studio for printer Malcolm Waugh so his work and that of others can be produced, framed and displayed for sale. Portfolio Gallery in Auckland is also selling prints widely. But, machinery is not always needed and Harold Coop prints by hand, or feet.
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    Kaleidoscope

    1. Jazz, and Wellington group Six Volts, who play the music of the 1920's and 1930's, are recording at Crescendo Studios. Their recording will be released under the Braille Records label collective, all experimental. -- 2. After 25 Years of living in Britain poet Kevin Ireland has returned to New Zealand. His work is about New Zealand with his nine published volumes winning many awards. He talks about his work, the influence of places and people and reads several of his poems.
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    Kaleidoscope

    In the final programme for the year Kaleidoscope visits five performing arts schools to see students at the beginning of their careers and a potential life in the performing arts: NZ Drama School; NZ School of Dance; Schola Musica; Royal NZ Ballet School, and the Wellington Polytechnic. A group of 13 young artists are followed as they study for a career in the performing arts. It asks why they wanted to go ahead and try for an arts career. In five years time the programme hopes to talk to them all again to see what happened. Sam Konise - violinist; Anita Schwab - jazz pianist; Paul Craven - Theatre technician; Helen Winchester - Dancer; Anita Bryan - Dancer; Paul Whelan - Singer; Mia Van Den Eykel - Singer; Campbel Smith - Singer; Graeme Cosslett - Pianist; Sarah Preece - Actor; Martin Csokas - Actor; Brendan Meek - Dancer; Mecaela Baird - Dancer
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    Kaleidoscope

    1. Christchurch architect Peter Bevan has been the inspiration for a generation of new architects. He has come back from an extended period overseas and goes around Wellington to look at, and comment on new architecture there. -- 2. A new dance work "Dead Ballerinas" has been choreographed by Paul Jenden and performed by him and his partner Loius Solino. It uses males as ballerinas, beginning as if it were a send up but turning into something really different. -- 3. The judge for the Fletcher Brownbuilt pottery awards this year is Maria Kuczynska and she talks about the works which have won awards.
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    Kaleidoscope

    1. ANZART '85 is a 10 day festival of "off the wall" art and a trans-Tasman gathering of artists covering new art forms; performance, electronics and experimental. -- 2. Embroidering History in Masterton and the local history wall hanging made for the Masterton library. -- 3. Artist and printmaker Carol Shepheard has been given a six week residency with disabled young people getting them involved in art, and which benefited her work as well.
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    Kaleidoscope

    1. Auckland is having a building boom with a record number of sites having been cleared and now under construction. But there seems to be little control over the environmental of aesthetic qualities. This programme looks at the effects of demolition and new building, with the criticisms, and suggestions for what should be done. High Rise, or High Risk? Participants are: Peter Bromhead (Interior Designer); Vern Warren (Director of Planning, Auckland City Council); Harold Goodman (Chairman, Planning Committe, Auckland City Council); Colin Graham (Property Manager, AMP); Seph Glew (Property Manager, Chase Corporation); John Whitehead (Managing Director, Mainzeal); Jim Hart (Property Manager, NZI Investments); Ian Carter (Sociologist); Ollie Newland (Businessman); Ivan Mercep (Architect); Professor Bartlett (Architecture School); Mike Prichard (School of Town Planning). -- 2. Composer Andrew LLoyd Weber's "Requiem" album, released this month in New Zealand, has already made the charts the world over. The track "Pie Jesu' has a video to go with it. It was made as a tribute to the Sussex Rescue Service and their work at the time of the Brighton Hotel bombing. -- 3. New Zealand composer Jack Body's "Little Elegies" was commissioned by Television New Zealand for its 25th birthday.
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    Kaleidoscope

    1. Playwright Roger Hall is the most successful playwright New Zealand has produced, constantly breaking box office records. He talks about his plays and musicals, and the challenges of being popular.