In November 1979, Australian band Mental As Anything released their debut album 'Get Wet' and launched a long career.
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We've published a Retro Gaming curated collection online that captures some of the ways that games have intersected with Australian popular culture since the 1970s.
Curator Simon Smith shares bloopers and behind-the-scenes footage from a program marking the first 10 years of Australian television.
Curator Simon Smith investigates the surviving footage of Australian television's opening night.
Guest contributor Jennifer Bowen shares extracts from several rare regional radio programs in the NFSA collection funded by the Rural Bank of NSW.
We’ve reached into our magic bag of tricks to bring you some excerpts from the original Felix the Cat cartoons.
The UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage takes place on 27 October. To celebrate we go behind the scenes with an early cinema home entertainment system: the Kinora.
Listen to excerpts from an Oral History interview with Elise Lockwood, the stills photographer on the set of 'The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert' (1994).
The NFSA celebrates Home Movie Day 2019 by participating in a Home Movie Marathon that also coincides with the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage.
Dr Liz Giuffre, archivist for Sydney community radio station 2SER 107.3, shares excerpts from a music industry documentary by Richard Kingsmill that was broadcast in 1988.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.