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A mix of white and First Nations people dressed in 1950s clothes dancing together.
https://www.nfsa.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-08/Still-4_The-Coolbaroo-Club_Dancing_NFSA-Restores_1600x775.jpg
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
https://www.nfsa.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-08/National%20Science%20Week%202023%20LT%20B_fire%20ant%201.jpg

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.
https://www.nfsa.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-08/Kids-TV-1990s_Latest-B.jpg

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
  • Object

Subject

  • preservation
  • Australian film
  • cooee cabaret
  • cinema
  • conferences
  • advertising
  • Australian music
  • film
  • film restoration
  • First Nations Australians
  • glass slides
  • NFSA Connects
  • Queanbeyan
  • regional Australia
  • Silent film
  • song slides
  • Sounds of Australia
  • Tasmania
  • Western Australia
  • (-) Devonport

Date

  • (-) 2012

May 2012

Glass slide image of a young girl peering through the centre of a wreath of flowers.
https://www.nfsa.gov.au/sites/default/files/article/hero_image10-2016/glass-slide2.jpg
Part three: digital preservation
Preserving glass slides: Part 3

NFSA conservator Shingo Ishikawa and digitisation specialist Darren Weinert talk about digital preservation and packaging of cinema slides.

BY
 Darren Weinert
& Shingo Ishikawa
12 May 2012
Film
Object

May 2012

https://www.nfsa.gov.au/sites/default/files/uploads/2011/12/13/Label-from-a-box-housing-Er_1.jpg
Preserving glass cinema slides
Preserving glass slides: Part 1

NFSA conservator Shingo Ishikawa and digitisation specialist Darren Weinert talk about cinema slides and their history, manufacture and preservation.

BY
 Darren Weinert
& Shingo Ishikawa
11 May 2012
Film
Object

May 2012

Glass slide image of a man and woman in an embrace standing in the moonlight, circa 1906.
https://www.nfsa.gov.au/sites/default/files/article/hero_image10-2016/glass-slide1.jpg
Glass cinema slides
Preserving glass slides: Part 2

NFSA conservator Shingo Ishikawa and digitisation specialist Darren Weinert talk about the NFSA's glass slide preservation project.

BY
 Darren Weinert
& Shingo Ishikawa
11 May 2012
Film
Object

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