Australian
Screen

an NFSA website

3 collections

Cinesound Movietone Australian Newsreels

The Cinesound Movietone Australian Newsreel Collection held at the National Film and Sound Archive comprises 4,000 newsreels from 1929 to 1975. [read more]

Water in Australian cinema

Australia is the driest inhabited continent, but you don’t have to drill far to find water in our movies. [read more]

Reality Comedy

TV curator Kate Matthews looks at the postmodern blending that has created a genre mashup loosely referred to as ‘reality comedy’ in Australian television. [read more]