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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

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Subject

  • Australian film
  • oral history
  • television
  • 1930s
  • journalists
  • animation
  • First Nations Australians
  • radio
  • silent films
  • sound
  • 1920s
  • 1940s
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  • sound preservation
  • wax cylinder

Date

  • (-) 2015

Dec 2015

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Red Dragon
Return of The Red Dragon

Film curator Sally Jackson takes a fresh look at Australia's first animated feature, Eric Porter's Marco Polo Junior Versus The Red Dragon.

BY
 Sally Jackson
22 December 2015
Film

Dec 2015

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2015 at the NFSA
2015 at the NFSA

Tens of thousands of items are collected by the NFSA each year. What did we collect in 2015? Part 1 includes iconic Australian films and kangaroos on Sesame Street.

BY
 Adam Blackshaw
21 December 2015
Film
Television

Dec 2015

Errol Flynn as Fletcher Christian in The Wake of The Bounty, 1932
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Australia's cinema heritage

As the 120th anniversary of cinema in Australia creeps up on us, Curator Sally Jackson takes a moment to consider how Australians recognise their cinema heritage.

BY
 Sally Jackson
18 December 2015
Film

Dec 2015

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Clancestry
Celebrating culture with Clancestry

Black Screen Coordinator Andrea Briggs reports from the first ever collaboration between the NFSA and the Clancestry festival.

BY
 Andrea Briggs
17 December 2015
Film

Dec 2015

Santa Claus in a sleigh being pulled along by two reindeer in the snow.
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Santaland, 1946
Welcome to Santaland, 1946

It's 1946 and three-year-old Robin Voigt is meeting Santa Claus for the first time.

BY
 Beth Taylor
16 December 2015
Posters

Dec 2015

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The Kid Stakes

The NFSA has released silent classic film The Kid Stakes (1927) on DVD and Blu-ray for the first time.

BY
 John Brady
14 December 2015
Film

Nov 2015

French Melbourne
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Glass Slides
A French view of Melbourne, circa 1895

Through this glass slide we catch a glimpse of a European perspective of Australia, circa 1895.

BY
 Beth Taylor
30 November 2015
Film
Object

Nov 2015

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Martu treasures return to country
Return to country

CEO Michael Loebenstein chronicles his recent trip to the Pilbara, where he and Chair Gabrielle Trainor joined the NFSA Indigenous Connections team.

BY
 Michael Loebenstein
13 November 2015
Documents
Film

Nov 2015

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'The Dismissal' footage
Preserving 'The Dismissal' footage

Forty years after the dismissal of the Whitlam Government, we look at the NFSA's digital preservation of the surviving original news footage.

BY
 Bronwyn Barnett
11 November 2015
Oral History
Television

Nov 2015

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The Dismissal: news footage
The Dismissal: through the news camera lens

On the 40th anniversary of the Governor-General's dismissal of the Whitlam Government, we look at the unfolding events of the day from the perspective of two camera operators who filmed them.

BY
 Bronwyn Barnett
9 November 2015
Oral History
Television

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