Fifty years on from the events of 11 November 1975, Johnny Milner revisits the day Gough Whitlam was dismissed as Prime Minister, and the recordings that captured a defining moment in Australian political history.
The NFSA and the National Film Institute (NFI) of Papua New Guinea (PNG) have co-designed a project to assist the NFI with preserving and storing their film archive, including digitising and returning at-risk PNG films.
Christopher Pidcock, a cellist with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, played Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Bach, and we recorded it on wax cylinder – just the way it would have been done in the 19th century.
The 1980s and ’90s were the heyday of TV game shows: you could pit your wits against the contestants on Sale of the Century, scream your way through Supermarket Sweep and dream of finding a Perfect Match.
Behind every safer site and shorter shift lies a story of protest, persistence and the people who changed how Australia works.
In the late 1980s and early '90s, an unlikely love affair sprang up between an American rock legend and Australian sport. Tina Turner’s rugby league ads reshaped public perception of the game and made the singer a national favourite.
From fictional fathers in Round the Twist and Bluey to real-life superheroes like Steve Irwin, we salute the much-prized Australian phenomenon that is the daggy dad.
Step behind the scenes to unpack the ideas, influences and creative collaborations fuelling Inferno, an audiovisual installation by Paris-based Australian artist Mikaela Stafford commissioned by the NFSA.
Jazz Money reflects on making their film WINHANGANHA and engaging with the audiences and communities who are encountering it at screenings in Australia and around the world.
From beloved family companions to cheeky physical comedians, these canines, pooches and pups have left a pawsitive impression on the Aussie TV screen.
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.
