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

Subject

  • 1920s
  • Cecil B DeMille
  • Far North Queensland
  • film exhibition
  • Franklyn Barrett
  • Hollywood
  • 1800s
  • 1890s
  • 1896 Melbourne Cup
  • artefacts
  • Bert Ive
  • cinematograph film
  • Melbourne
  • Melbourne Cup
  • moving image photography
  • New Zealand
  • orphans
  • photography
  • preservation
  • Te Papa

Date

  • (-) 2013

Nov 2013

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Melbourne Cup fashion, 1896

Famous faces and fashions of the 1896 Melbourne Cup.

BY
 Sally Jackson
1 November 2013
Film
Photographs

Sep 2013

A horse-drawn trailer promotes a screening of The Ten Commandments at the Wintergarden Theatre in 1925
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Hollywood in Australia: Part 3

In part three, Jeannette Delamoir considers what Franklyn Barrett's 1925 tour of Far North Queensland with The Ten Commandments tells us about Barrett, film attendance and regional Australian audiences.

BY
 Jeannette Delamoir
16 September 2013
Film
Object
Photographs

Sep 2013

Four actors in costume pose on a horse-drawn trailer promoting The Ten Commandments in 1925
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Hollywood in Australia: Part 2

In part two, Jeannette Delamoir describes filmmaker Franklyn Barrett's preparations for, and staging of, a live prologue to The Ten Commandments in Far North Queensland, 1925.

BY
 Jeannette Delamoir
16 September 2013
Film
Object
Photographs

Sep 2013

Cast members pose on stage during a prologue to a 1925 screening of The Ten Commandments in Queensland
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Hollywood in Australia: Part 1

Hollywood, local filmmakers and regional Australia intersect in the story of Franklyn Barrett's touring of a live prologue to Cecil B DeMille's The Ten Commandments in Far North Queensland, 1925.

BY
 Jeannette Delamoir
16 September 2013
Film
Object
Photographs

Aug 2013

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Help the NFSA's waifs and strays

Our experts know a lot about our collection, but sometimes even they need help from the public. Can you identify these images?

BY
 Miguel Gonzalez
26 August 2013
Photographs

Apr 2013

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The life of objects

In Wellington, New Zealand, Audiovisual Conservation Assistant Kerry Yates found that objects and artefacts have a life of their own.

BY
 Kerry Yates
26 April 2013
Object
Photographs

Apr 2013

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Preserving contemporary photography

Conservator Shingo Ishikawa and Audiovisual Conservation Assistant Kerry Yates recently attended a series of workshops run by Sylvie Penichon, from the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas.

BY
 Shingo Ishikawa
& Kerry Yates
8 April 2013
Photographs

Mar 2013

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Bert Ive

Graham Shirley traces the history of the Cinema and Photographic Branch through the life of its first long-term cinematographer, Bert Ive.

BY
 Graham Shirley
18 March 2013
Documents
Film
Photographs

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