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

Subject

  • costumes
  • glass slides
  • preservation
  • acquisitions
  • 1890s
  • 1930s
  • artefacts
  • Baz Luhrmann
  • costume design
  • 1920s
  • 1940s
  • Australian film
  • Australians & Hollywood
  • Catherine Martin
  • Catherine Martin series
  • Cinesound
  • music
  • NFSA
  • NFSA collection
  • (-) 1950s

Date

  • 2017
  • 2016

Oct 2017

A screen hanging in a garage in Wollongong, part of the 1940s home cinema set-up of film projectionist Eddie Vormister
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Home cinema, 1940s style
Eddie Vormister's homemade film projector

Meet Eddie Vormister and his homemade film projector.

BY
 Jessica Bolton
25 October 2017
Object

Oct 2017

A woman wearing a pink foundation garment stands amidst art deco design elements suggesting power and lightening.
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Berlei's Beauty in the Balance

Berlei cinema and television advertisements and educational glass slides from the 1920s to the 1960s offer a window onto Australian fashion and social mores.

BY
 Beth Taylor
9 October 2017
Film
Object

Aug 2017

A page out of a 1950s autograph book with Chips Rafferty's signature and two small photos of him
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A 1950s autograph book

The stars of Australian radio serials and cinema touched the lives of many, but one Sydney teenager of the 1950s had the autograph book to prove it.

BY
 Jessica Bolton
9 August 2017
Object

Sep 2016

Close up of Sid Oldroyd's homemade TV showing screen and dials inside a wooden cabinet, built in 1956.
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A homemade TV
Story of a homemade TV

Did you know that in TV’s early days, a number of talented people built their own TV sets at home?

BY
 Jenny Gall
12 September 2016
Object
Television

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