Stewart Shannon reveals some of the tricks and secrets that the Collection Management team use to keep the NFSA collection safe.
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Watch three amateur films from the 1950s and 60s on the theme of 'fashion’.
The first known Australian to make a commercially released recording, the long forgotten Syria Lamonte, is now preserved by the NFSA thanks to the kind donation of an 1898 recording acquired by Roger Neill.
We invited musician and composer Heinz Riegler to re-imagine a 1939 recording of a talking budgerigar that featured in the Art of Sound exhibition.
The NFSA has developed a project to ensure the preservation of LGBTQIA+ radio in our collection thanks to a bequest from the estate of Dietmar Hollman, a former presenter and producer of Gaywaves and gay rights activist.
The music of Peter Sculthorpe has influenced three generations of Australians more deeply than we perhaps realise.
The story behind 'Crocodile Creek', a community musical directed by Baz Luhrmann.
50 years ago today Melbourne’s fourth television channel, ATV Channel 0 (now Channel 10), broadcast its opening night gala variety show THIS IS IT and thanks to preservation by the NFSA you can watch some of it here. Part 2 of 2 in this series.
The NFSA looks to the television collection to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Channel 10 in Melbourne, then known as ATV0. Part 1 of 2 in this series.
Executive producer Rebel Penfold-Russell talks about the universal appeal of 'The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert'.
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.