: by Travis Green / 2020-05-07
We bring you a recording of our conversation with Jocelyn Moorhouse when she visited the NFSA in 2019 to discuss her book, 'Unconditional Love: A Memoir of Filmmaking and Motherhood'.
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: by Travis Green / 2020-04-30
We bring you a recording of our conversation with David Stratton when he visited the NFSA in Canberra last year to discuss the release of his book, 101 Marvellous Movies You May Have Missed.
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: by Jemma Pietrus / 2020-04-28
Take a step back in time and discover the charm of Melbourne more than a century ago.
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: by Beth Taylor / 2020-04-17
The first Academy Award ever won by an Australian is in the NFSA collection.
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: by Heather Gill / 2020-04-15
As public gatherings to commemorate Anzac Day in 2020 are not going ahead because of COVID-19, we're sharing home movies of marches from Anzac Day in 1933, 1946 and 1980.
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: by Johnny Milner / 2020-04-09
George Ogilvie – widely recognised as one of Australia's most acclaimed theatre, film and television directors – passed away peacefully on 5 April 2020.
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: by Nathan Smith / 2020-04-01
In 1929, Hoyts – with help from Studebaker and the Shell Oil Company – loaded cinema sound equipment onto a truck so regional Australia could experience the latest in 'talking pictures'.
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: by Noel Wheatley / 2020-03-23
Our doors may be closed temporarily but when it comes to the NFSA, we are always open online.
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: by Stephen Groenewegen / 2020-03-18
Discover the stories behind some of Australia's beloved – and also lesser-known – national treasures.
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: by Thorsten Kaeding / 2020-03-13
With the news of the passing of Don Burrows, Australia has lost a giant and pioneer of modern Australian jazz.
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: by Mel Bondfield / 2020-03-12
The NFSA has unearthed a rare scrapbook created by the McDonagh sisters around the release of their film 'The Far Paradise' in 1928.
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: by Graham Shirley / 2020-03-04
For International Women's Day, we present a portrait of the pioneering Australian filmmakers, the McDonagh Sisters – Isabel, Paulette and Phyllis.
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: by Graham Shirley / 2020-03-04
Can you help us identify these Sydney locations from landmark 1920s films made by the McDonagh sisters?
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: by Amanda Diaz / 2020-02-28
A determined son found footage of his mother’s gold medal win at the 1972 Paralympics in the NFSA collection.
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: by Jeff Wray / 2020-02-21
A recently donated film reveals the only known colour footage of Sir Donald Bradman playing cricket.
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: by Jeff Wray / 2020-02-20
A recently donated film reveals the only known colour footage of Sir Donald Bradman playing cricket.
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: by Adam Blackshaw / 2020-02-19
In February 1965, Dr 'Kumantjayi’ (Charlie) Perkins AO led students from the University of Sydney on a 'freedom ride’ through rural NSW to expose racial segregation in Australia.
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: by Mel Bondfield / 2020-02-12
On World Radio Day in 2020, we celebrate diversity in Australia's radio broadcasting history and the NFSA collection.
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: by Jeff Wray / 2020-02-11
The NFSA celebrates Valentine's Day with recently restored footage of a unique wedding ceremony in the skies over Sydney in 1932.
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: by Jenny Gall / 2020-02-03
On 14 February 2020, it is 120 years since the (fictional) events in Picnic at Hanging Rock. Jenny Gall takes a close look at two of the costumes from Peter Weir's film, released 45 years ago in 1975.
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