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A mix of white and First Nations people dressed in 1950s clothes dancing together.
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Article

NFSA Restores: The Coolbaroo Club

18 August 2023
VIEW
Artist Richard Bell seated in his studio in front of one of his works: a coloured Indigenous map of Australia with the words PAYE THE RENT across it
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Deep Dive: You Can Go Now

Watch a filmed conversation with First Nations artist Richard Bell at the NFSA.
24 August 2023
A fire ant seen at close quarters on a branch
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Science and Innovation

Science Week stories about spray-on skin, conservation, biosecurity, drones and more.
14 August 2023
Three white children, two boys and a girl, laughing and smiling together on a boat at sea. The youngest boy and girl are wearing colourful jumpers while the older boy wears a denim jacket.
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1990s TV shows for tweens

Remember the boom in Australian science-fiction and fantasy TV for kids in the 1990s?
Wendy Hanna  / 
9 August 2023

Category

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Subject

  • Australian film
  • 1930s
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  • events
  • Australian cinema
  • Australians & Hollywood
  • preservation
  • 1920s
  • film
  • First Nations Australians
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  • Canberra
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Jul 2023

A man leaning over and looking into a movie camera
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Giorgio Mangiamele Restorations
Giorgio Mangiamele: landmark films restored by the NFSA

The NFSA has restored four landmark films by Italian-Australian filmmaker Giorgio Mangiamele – Il Contratto (1953), The Spag (1962), Ninety Nine Per Cent (1963) and Clay (1965).

BY
 Graham Shirley
14 July 2023
Film

Nov 2021

Looking down on all five members of The Easybeats
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Easybeats on Top of the Pops
Easybeats Perform 'Friday on My Mind' on Top of the Pops

A clip of the Easybeats performing 'Friday on My Mind' on British television's Top of the Pops in 1966 has been rediscovered.

BY
 Simon Smith
23 November 2021
Film
Television

Oct 2021

Four men operating a film projector
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Amateur Cine Societies
World Home Movie Day 2021: Amateur Cine Societies

For World Home Movie Day 2021, curator Heather Gill highlights the work of Australia's amateur cine societies.

BY
 Heather Gill
14 October 2021
Film

Jan 2021

Women marching in the street with a big banner that reads SMASH SEXISM.
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Deep Dive: Brazen Hussies
Deep Dive: Brazen Hussies Q&A with Catherine Dwyer and Elizabeth Reid

Listen to a Q&A with the director of documentary Brazen Hussies (2020), Catherine Dwyer and influential feminist Elizabeth Reid.

BY
 Johnny Milner
28 January 2021
Film
Sound

Oct 2020

A passenger aircraft Boeing 747-400 in Qantas colour scheme taking off from Kingsford Smith airport
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Travel Home Movies
Home Movies: Top 10 International Travel Destinations

We mark World Day for Audiovisual Heritage and Home Movie Day with footage of Australia's top overseas travel destinations.

BY
 Heather Gill
21 October 2020
Film

Sep 2020

NFSA Stories banner
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NFSA Stories: The Drifting Avenger
NFSA Stories: The Drifting Avenger (Koya No Toseinin)

On a recent holiday to Australia, a former child actor visited the NFSA to watch the Japanese Western he starred in more than 50 years ago.

BY
 Amanda Diaz
16 September 2020
Film

Feb 2020

A group of 13 people standing side by side next to the front of a bus looking towards the camera.
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Freedom Ride 1965
Dr Perkins and the 1965 Freedom Ride

In February 1965, Dr 'Kumantjayi’ (Charlie) Perkins AO led students from the University of Sydney on a 'freedom ride’ through rural NSW to expose racial segregation in Australia.

BY
 Adam Blackshaw
19 February 2020
Film

Jul 2019

The surface of the Moon with the Sun visible in the background
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Original Moon Landing Broadcast
CSIRO Donates Rare NASA Moon Landing Broadcast to NFSA

A rare copy of the restored original TV broadcast of the July 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing, previously given by NASA to the CSIRO, will now be preserved at the NFSA.

BY
 Stephen Groenewegen
3 July 2019
Film

May 2019

A young woman in a wedding gown stands centre of frame while a nun to her right looks at her intensely
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Cinema Reborn: The Nun
Adrian Martin reviews Jacques Rivette's The Nun for the NFSA

Award-winning film critic Adrian Martin writes about The Nun (AKA La Religieuse), which screens at Arc cinema on 10 May as part of the Cinema Reborn season.

BY
 Adrian Martin
2 May 2019
Film

Mar 2018

Back view of a female athlete standing on the running track.
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Australia's Commonwealth Games
Australia's Commonwealth Games

We look back at highlights from Commonwealth Games held in Australia in 1938, 1962, 1982 and 2006.

BY
 Adam Blackshaw
26 March 2018
Film
Television

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