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Article

Tune into Radio 100

30 November 2023
VIEW
Curator Amy Butterfield seated near a window, smiling
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Interview with a Radio 100 curator

Amy Butterfield shares the challenges and surprising discoveries of curating for Radio 100.
Amy Butterfield  / 
23 November 2023
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Radio 100: Spirits in the Material World

When radio took off 100 years ago so did the belief that airwaves offered a chance to commune with spirits.
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas  / 
23 November 2023
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New waves: The birth of radio in Australia

A look at the early days of radio, from crystal sets to first broadcasts and advertisements.
23 November 2023

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  • 1970s
  • 1930s
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  • Australian film
  • Australians & Hollywood
  • 1920s
  • 1980s
  • oral history
  • early Australian television
  • obituaries
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  • The Women Who Made Australian TV
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  • 2021
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  • 2017

Feb 2022

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Women's and Children's Programs
The Women Who Made Australian Television 4 – Women's and Children's Programs

In the fourth of a 5-part series, Dr Jeannine Baker reveals some of the women who shaped and redefined television content for women and children.

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 Jeannine Baker
28 February 2022
Oral History
Photographs
Television

Nov 2021

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Calling the shots
The Women Who Made Australian Television 3 – Calling the Shots

In the third of a five-part series, Dr Jeannine Baker celebrates some of the female producers and directors working in Australian television in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.

BY
 Jeannine Baker
29 November 2021
Oral History
Photographs
Television

Nov 2021

Journalist Jim Waley is wearing a suit and tie in this black and white photo. He is sitting in a studio with a backdrop showing a map of the world.
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Sunday
Sunday news, current affairs and arts program: 40th anniversary

For World Television Day 2021, the NFSA takes a close look at the news, current affairs and arts program Sunday on its 40th birthday.

BY
 Richard Vorobieff
13 November 2021
Photographs
Television

Oct 2021

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The Beginnings of Television
The Women Who Made Australian Television 1 – The Beginnings of Television

In the first of a five-part series, Dr Jeannine Baker looks at the vital – and often unrecognised – role that women played in bringing the first Australian TV programs to air.

BY
 Jeannine Baker
11 October 2021
Documents
Film
Oral History
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Television

Oct 2021

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Women Technicians
The Women Who Made Australian Television 2 - Behind the Scenes: Women Technicians

In the second of a five-part series, Dr Jeannine Baker shares stories of some of the women who excelled in technical production areas during the early years of Australian television.

BY
 Jeannine Baker
11 October 2021
Oral History
Photographs
Television

Apr 2020

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Vale George Ogilvie
Vale George Ogilvie

George Ogilvie – widely recognised as one of Australia's most acclaimed theatre, film and television directors – passed away peacefully on 5 April 2020.

BY
 Johnny Milner
9 April 2020
Photographs
Television

Sep 2017

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Reliving the 1980s

Our 100th curated collection is all about the 1980s, and it stars Charles and Diana, Kylie and Dannii Minogue, Edna Everage, David Attenborough, Linda Burney, Ken Done, Michael Hutchence and many, many more.

BY
 Beth Taylor
4 September 2017
Film
Photographs
Television

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Radio 100
Tune into Radio 100
Celebrating 100 years in 100 days.
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Detail from the poster for the film WINHANGANHA showing an archival photo of two First Nations men wearing collared shirts and bush hats. The edges of the black-and-white photo is curled up as if on fire, and the collage also features fire and the red, yellow and black colours of the Aboriginal flag
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WINHANGANHA
A new film by Jazz Money and the NFSA.
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Australian invention
The Fairlight sampler
The first digital synthesiser and sampler.
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Capital city time capsules
Australia through the decades.
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The rise of the Matildas.
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