Papers and projects in Film
NFSA conservator Shingo Ishikawa and digitisation specialist Darren Weinert talk about cinema slides and their history, manufacture and preservation. Adopted widely by amateur and professional photographers, public speakers, variety performers and advertisers, glass slides were still in use in cinemas until the late 1970s.
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The NFSA’s Oral History Program Coordinator Chris Guster shares a personal perspective on the early days of remote Indigenous media groups, which in just 30 years have grown from small pirate stations into national and international media organisations.
Warning: This paper may contain names, images or voices of deceased Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
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The NFSA’s Chief Cinema Programmer Quentin Turnour challenges the myths surrounding the making of the film known as Home of the Blizzard (1911–1916), shedding light on the provenance of footage created to record and promote Douglas Mawson’s 1911–1914 Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE).
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In Part Two of his essay, the NFSA’s Chief Cinema Programmer Quentin Turnour investigates Frank Hurley’s association with the promotion of Douglas Mawson’s Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) film. And the facts about the ownership and titling of the 1911–1916 film that came to be known as Home of the Blizzard are revealed.
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Films set in the outback have been central to a imagining of Australia for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous filmmakers. NFSA Historian Graham Shirley argues that the interpretation of the landscape and our relationship with it has defined Australian cinema.
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