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

Subject

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

Date

  • 2017
  • 2016
  • 2012

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

Aug 2016

The Fairlight sampling synthesizer showing keyboard and user display monitor.
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Fairlight
The Fairlight Sampling Synthesizer

In 1979 two young Australians invented the first Fairlight sampling synthesizer and changed electronic music forever. We have one in working condition!

BY
 Beth Taylor
29 August 2016
Object

Jan 2016

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Starstruck costumes
Tutus and fake boobs

The musical comedy Starstruck (1982) and its colourful, outrageous costumes were ahead of their time.

BY
 Beth Taylor
25 January 2016
Film
Object

Oct 2012

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Collecting The Eye of the Storm

Film curators Jennifer Coombes and Tenille Hands recently accepted a collection of props and costumes from Fred Schepisi's 'The Eye of the Storm' (2011). How did they make their selection?

BY
 Tenille Hands
& Jennifer Coombes
29 October 2012
Film
Object

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