Public Address | OurTube | Good Night Kiwi

Nick Howells

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:02:36 +1300

Out of curiousity as I am from a media saturated 24 hour tv childhood, what time did tv stop? Around 11pm?

Andrew Wilson

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:48:42 +1300

See, its things like this that make YouTube so much fun. As soon as the music started playing it all came flooding back – mostly memories of once more having successfully stayed up too late :)

DeepRed6502

Sun, 03 Dec 2006 01:16:39 +1300

Back when I was growing up in the 8-bit era, my father bought a VCR just to record this clip. :)

Russell Brown

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 17:41:17 +1300

The music is so very soothing.

Yeah, I thought that too. Almost disturbingly so ...

Robyn Gallagher

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 16:15:31 +1300

There's a rather thorough Wikipedia entry about Goodnight Kiwi.

I was interested to learn that the song is an arrangement of "Hine e Hine".

Jackie Clark

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 10:23:13 +1300

That's lovely. Really. And genius. I'm all for shutting down TV every night at midnight again. Might do us all some good.

Vicki Munro

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 07:29:24 +1300

Wow – this has made a "new New Yorker" very homesick....

jgamman

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 05:31:32 +1300

a hot topic of debate. i'm partial to the idea that the cat whips up early as evidenced by the *returning* elevator. how else did it know to come down? hhmmmm! something for all of us to think about there.

Richard Body

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 05:21:19 +1300

see, I was willing to just accept that the ways of cats are mysterious, but clearly they are clever AND mysterious.

Thanks for clearing that up!

Jolisa

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 04:50:08 +1300

Awwww... made me cry! And that was just the bit with the milk bottle!

(Oh and obviously the cat goes up in the lift first and then sends it back down for the kiwi. Hours of impassioned debate — and waiting up to watch it to be absolutely sure because…

Robyn Gallagher

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 02:54:30 +1300

As much as I <3 the Warren & Mahoney designed modern building that is TVNZ's Television Centre, I kind of wish there actually was a television studio built in the side of a white rock mountain, with a little wooden door and steps cut into the outside leading up to the satellite dish.

Richard Body

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 02:24:38 +1300

The music is so very soothing.

But I was always mystified about how the cat managed to get up to the top of the tower...

red01

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 13:07:32 +1300

I forgot all about the good night Kiwi... I use to dread seeing that clip, because when he came on it was time for bed......

+ An edit would be sweet as i cant spell or type.

Tristan

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 12:57:44 +1300

Thanks I make alot of mistaked :)

Russell Brown

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 12:56:56 +1300

Done. Guess we can look at adding editing once things settle down.

Tristan

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 12:45:30 +1300

oh bother no edit option

"clean up on topic three!"

Tristan

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 12:43:58 +1300

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4BKveyVTx0

From the days when Televison stopped.