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| Title: | Captain's Log |
| Description: | Follow in the footsteps of Captain James Cook. Re-live his amazing voyage of discovery and first contact with the Maori people. In Captain's Log, Peter Elliott sails around New Zealand retracing Captain Cook's voyage of discovery in 1769. The log and journals of Captain Cook and crew of The Endeavour are heard as we follow the route of the voyage of first substantive charting, naming, and contact with the Maori. Cook's voyage represents the start of New Zealand's modern national history. The excerpts streamed on this website are made available courtesy of Livingstone Productions. |
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| Title: | PICTORIAL PARADE: AFTER TWO CENTURIES |
| Time: | 03'49" |
| Description: | A trip back in time, this B&W National Film Unit archive film was made 8th Oct 1969, and looks at the bicentennial celebrations of Captain Cook's arrival in Gisborne. The film shows the international Naval Fleet in Poverty Bay, parades, celebrations at the Cook landing Memorial (before the Port reclamation separated it from the historic landing beaches), the Maori welcome at Anaura Bay, a totem pole given to the people of New Zealand by Canada, and the unveiling of the Cook statue on Kaiti Hill. Video supplied by the NZTV Archives. |
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| Title: | A Conversation with Dame Anne Salmond |
| Description: | These 16 short videos were recorded at the University of Auckland with host Bernice Mene. Dame Anne is asked a series of questions about her writing of the book and her views on Cook, Tupaia and the lasting impact of this extraordinary voyage of First Contact with NZ Maori. The students are Taiasha Opai, Debbie Savage and Brian Teremoana from Aorere College in Manurewa, Suds Singh and Nicola Best from Rangitoto College and the Genesis Summer Science School
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