Skip to main content
Home Home
menu

Main menu

  • Latest
  • What's On
  • Collection
  • Preservation
  • Learning
  • About
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
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
https://www.nfsa.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-08/You%20Can%20Go%20Now%20Deep%20Dive%20Richard%20Bell.jpg

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
  • Sound
  • Television
  • Oral History
  • Radio
  • Object
  • Photographs
  • Posters
  • Documents

Subject

  • 1960s
  • Australian film
  • Australian Cinematographers Society
  • cinematographers
  • First Nations Australians
  • home movies
  • obituaries
  • Sounds of Australia
  • television
  • 1950s
  • Australian music
  • music
  • musicians
  • oral history
  • preservation
  • radio
  • theatre
  • The Beatles
  • women
  • Art of Sound

Date

  • (-) 2014

Dec 2014

https://www.nfsa.gov.au/sites/default/files/article/hero_image03-2017/454654_skyhooks_crop.jpg
2014 at the NFSA, Part 2

Tens of thousands of items are collected by the NFSA each year. What did we collect in 2014? Part 2 includes wild sounds, rock stars, Indigenous music and Mardi Gras.

BY
 Adam Blackshaw
29 December 2014
Oral History
Radio
Sound
Television

Dec 2014

https://www.nfsa.gov.au/sites/default/files/uploads/2014/12/05/IMG_1583_1_resized_1.jpg
2014 at the NFSA, Part 1

Tens of thousands of items are collected by the NFSA each year. What did we collect in 2014? Part 1 includes elephant heads, fake moustaches and the wild one.

BY
 Adam Blackshaw
22 December 2014
Documents
Film
Object
Oral History
Posters
Sound

Dec 2014

https://www.nfsa.gov.au/sites/default/files/03-2017/television_cropped_2.jpg
A Star Wars Connection

Grace Barrand, a recent volunteer at the NFSA’s Melbourne office, uncovers the surprising connection between Australia's first community TV station and 'Star Wars'.

BY
 Grace Barrand
11 December 2014
Television

Nov 2014

https://www.nfsa.gov.au/sites/default/files/uploads/2014/11/26/GeorgesMora_PhilippeMora.jpg
The 1950s Melbourne art scene

Philippe Mora shares family home movies that feature rare footage of the Melbourne art scene of the 1950s.

BY
 Tara Marynowsky
27 November 2014
Film

Nov 2014

https://www.nfsa.gov.au/sites/default/files/article/hero_image03-2017/nfsa_0557_soa_banner_1600x8003.jpg
From Dingo to Divinyls

What do dingoes, 80s rock and an orgasmic opus have in common? They're all part of the 2014 Sounds of Australia!

BY
 Miguel Gonzalez
19 November 2014
Sound

Nov 2014

https://www.nfsa.gov.au/sites/default/files/article/hero_image03-2017/815736a_crop.jpg
The magic of glass

Curator Itzell Tazzyman introduces 21st century audiences to the wonders of 19th century magic lanterns.

BY
 Itzell Tazzyman
10 November 2014
Object

Oct 2014

https://www.nfsa.gov.au/sites/default/files/uploads/2014/10/30/IMG_6039_r.jpg
Long live Priscilla!
The Adventures of Priscilla lives on at the NFSA

What better way to celebrate the lasting legacy of 'Priscilla' than a visit from Stephan Elliott and Rebel Penfold-Russell, bringing the film's key components to the NFSA?

BY
 Tara Marynowsky
29 October 2014
Film

Oct 2014

https://www.nfsa.gov.au/sites/default/files/uploads/2014/10/28/MightyConqueror03_resized_1.jpg
Phar Lap - Mighty Conqueror

A 1931 nitrate film about the champion racehorse Phar Lap has been donated to the NFSA.

BY
 Kathrin di Rocco
27 October 2014
Film

Oct 2014

https://www.nfsa.gov.au/sites/default/files/collection/hero_image09-2016/hero-image_2.jpg
Harry Julius

Film curator Sally Jackson writes about Australia's first cinema animations for the 2014 World Day for Audiovisual Heritage on 27 October.

BY
 Sally Jackson
27 October 2014
Film

Oct 2014

A posed publicity still of the cast members of the final season of the TV show Homicide, in 1974: Dennis Grosvenor, Gary Day, Don Barker and Charles Tingwell
https://www.nfsa.gov.au/sites/default/files/article/hero_image09-2017/homicide_hero_3_1253531.jpg
50 years of Homicide

Groundbreaking Australian TV crime drama Homicide is 50. Broadcast curator Simon Smith celebrates with behind-the-scenes images, production documents and interviews from the show's history.

BY
 Simon Smith
20 October 2014
Television

Pagination

  • Current page 1
  • Page 2
  • Page 3
  • Page 4
  • Page 5
  • Page 6
  • Page 7
  • Page 8
  • Next page Next ›
  • Last page Last »

Help the NFSA do more 

DONATE NOW 

Other ways to Support Us

Acknowledgement of country

The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.

Go to NFSA Facebook page
Go to NFSA YouTube channel
Go to NFSA Instagram
Go to NFSA Twitter page
Go to NFSA Soundcloud channel
Go to NFSA Flickr photostream
Sign up to our newsletter Open newsletter sign up form
  • Contact Us
    • Offices
    • Feedback
  • Visit Us
    • Getting here
    • Venue information
    • Cafe
  • Using The Collection
    • Search the NFSA catalogue
    • Film Australia Collection
    • Theatrical screening loans
    • Non-theatrical screenings
    • Black Screen
    • Access fees
    • Copyright
  • Corporate Information
    • Media Releases
    • Governance
      • People
    • Publications
    • Tenders
    • Freedom of information
    • Public Interest Disclosure
    • Legal notices
  • Careers
    • Job Vacancies
    • Internships and Traineeships
    • Volunteers
    • NFSA Careers FAQs
  • NFSA PLAYER
  • Online shop
  • Web accessibility
  • Privacy