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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

  • Film
  • Television
  • Photographs
  • Radio
  • Sound
  • Posters
  • Documents
  • Oral History
  • (-) Object

Subject

  • Australian actors
  • film costumes
  • glass slides
  • Starstruck exhibition
  • The Dressmaker
  • 2010s
  • acquisitions
  • Bathurst
  • Betty Bryant
  • Charles Chauvel
  • cinema advertising
  • Cinesound
  • collections
  • Elsa Chauvel
  • exhibition
  • exhibitions
  • Kinora
  • NFSA
  • photography
  • World Day for Audiovisual Heritage

Date

  • (-) 2019

Dec 2019

Cartoon of dog parents in a car with their dog children in the back.
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2019 at the NFSA
NFSA acquisition highlights for 2019

The NFSA collects tens of thousands of items every year. What were some of the highlights for 2019?

BY
 Adam Blackshaw
11 December 2019
Documents
Film
Object
Oral History
Photographs
Posters
Radio
Sound
Television

Oct 2019

Three Kinora reels
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World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2019
World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2019

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.

BY
 Jeff Wray
24 October 2019
Object

Sep 2019

Red Dog, a kelpie-cattle dog cross, pokes his head out of the window of a travelling train
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Starstruck Online
Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits Exhibition – Online Highlights

After successful seasons in Canberra, Adelaide, the Gold Coast, Bathurst and Geraldton between 2017 and 2019, you can now find highlights from the Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits exhibition online.

BY
 Stephen Groenewegen
24 September 2019
Object
Photographs
Posters

Sep 2019

Painting of the Canberra landscape on a glass slide.
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Alternative Canberra Designs
Alternative Canberra designs by Walter Scott Griffiths

The NFSA has acquired 24 glass slides by Walter Scott Griffiths illustrating his alternative vision for Australia’s future capital city.

BY
 Tamara Osicka
16 September 2019
Object

Jul 2019

Actress Sarah Snook in a publicity shot for The Dressmaker, wearing a fitted, champagne-coloured, beaded gown and standing in front of some bare tree branches. In the distance you can see a brown, dusty plain and grey, cloudy sky.
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The Dressmaker Costumes: 2019 Exhibition
The Dressmaker Costume Exhibition, 2019

The Dressmaker Costume Exhibition took place at the NFSA in 2019.

BY
 Mel Bondfield
18 July 2019
Object

May 2019

A montage of colourful glass cinema slides advertising political candidates at elections
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Cinema Glass Slides – Political Ads
Cinema Glass Slides – Political Party Campaign Advertisements

The NFSA collection contains over 100 political glass slide advertisements from 1917 to 1976.

BY
 Michelle Davenport
31 May 2019
Object

Apr 2019

Saran Snook in black dress with white cape stands in front of an outback scene at sunset
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The Dressmaker Costume Exhibition
The Dressmaker Costume Exhibition – Opening at NFSA in Canberra from 18 April

See a spectacular range of haute couture costumes worn by the stars of The Dressmaker, on show at the NFSA in Canberra from 18 April.

BY
 Stephen Groenewegen
8 April 2019
Film
Object

Mar 2019

Black and white portrait of actress Betty Bryant wit her elbows resting on a piano accordian and her face in her hands.
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Starstruck: Betty Bryant
Betty Bryant: 1940s film ingénue features in Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits exhibition

A look at Betty Bryant, once Australia’s most famed film ingénue, who features in the exhibition Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits, now open on the Gold Coast.

BY
 Tenille Hands
6 March 2019
Film
Object
Photographs

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