Items tagged with 'technology'
The future of music
14 September 2010 in Trends and challenges
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Warren Fahey
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Warren Fahey AM, founder of Larrikin Records, provides a personal perspective on the NFSA’s recent Thomas Rome Lecture given by Ed St John.
Ed St John’s talk for the 2010 Thomas Rome lecture was illuminating and peppered with flashing warning signs. Music is a very resilient little devil but the record industry, or at least its traditional sound carrier systems, appear to be at death’s door.
Seeing what you've got
01 February 2011 in Trends and challenges
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Dominic Case
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The switchover to digital technology in sound recording and television has been relatively smooth with, and certainly has avoided much of the angst that has surrounded the introduction of digital technology in filmmaking.
Billions of bytes
18 March 2011 in Trends and challenges
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Dominic Case
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Modern film formats pose problems in data storage capacities, here Dominic Case talks about some of the formats and why a full definition cinema quality digital film would not even come close to fitting onto your biggest home hard drive — Peta bytes anyone?
Keep your analogue copies
08 August 2011 in Preservation
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Dominic Case
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NFSA Development Manager Executive Dominic Case looks back at the days when computers first infiltrated the film industry, and wonders what the digital present – and future – holds for film archives.
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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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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World Radio Day
10 February 2012 in Explore the collection
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Maryanne Doyle
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The NFSA celebrates the inaugural World Radio Day on 13 February 2012 with a glimpse into the technical side of broadcasting during the Second World War in Australia.
ASO goes mobile
07 May 2012 in Trends and challenges, Learning, Explore the collection
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Get your own personal guided tour of filming and recording locations for classic Australian film, television, newsreels, music and radio, using 'near me’ on ASO mobile.
