National Film Unit

After the end of the war in 1945, the NFU continued with a renewed focus on "educational film" for domestic audiences as well as the projection of a favourable image of New Zealand overseas, particularly for tourism promotion as well as, to lesser extent, to attract immigrants and investment and to further trade.

Notable films were Te Rauparaha about the Maori chief, Snows of Aorangi (nominated for an Oscar in 1958), One Hundred and Forty Days Under the World (nominated for an Oscar in 1964), A Deaf Child in the Family, Amazing New Zealand (1963), and the three-projector wide-screen This is New Zealand for Expo '70 at Osaka, Japan.

When staff were told of the sale price, the triumphant management and government officials seemed somewhat surprised to be treated with a collective gasp followed by a "slow clap".

[citation needed] In the late 1990s TVNZ sold the NFU studios in Miramar to film-maker Peter Jackson where he set up Park Road Post.

[3] In 2011, the National Film Unit-produced titles Weekly Reviews (1941–50) and Pictorial Parades (1952–71), weekly news bulletins shown before films at picture theatres, were included as an entry on the UNESCO Memory of the World Aotearoa New Zealand Ngā Mahara o te Ao register.