Editing Cinema of New Zealand (section)

==New Zealand Film Archive==
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The New Zealand Film Archive was founded and incorporated on 9 March 1981. Film enthusiast, critic and historian [[Jonathan Dennis]] (1953{{Ndash}}2002) was a driving force behind the archive, and became its first director. The archive was set up to preserve and restore significant New Zealand film and television images. It now holds a collection of much of early New Zealand cinema film and holds public screenings of its collection.{{Cn|date=June 2021}}

Much of the early cinema film made in New Zealand has been lost, as it was printed on [[Nitrocellulose|nitrate]], which is unstable. In 1992, when film enthusiasts and the New Zealand Film Archive realised how much of New Zealand's film heritage was being lost, they mounted the ''Last Film Search'' and found 7,000 significant films, both in New Zealand and around the world.<ref>{{Cite web|others=BNZ Heritage|title=The Last Film Search – BNZ Heritage|url=https://www.bnzheritage.co.nz/archives/story/the-last-film-search|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-26|website=www.bnzheritage.co.nz|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200811072105/https://www.bnzheritage.co.nz/archives/story/the-last-film-search |archive-date=11 August 2020 }}</ref>