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Mar 2022
Fox Movietone Productions van with a man standing on top operating a camera. The van is on the deck of the newly-constructed Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Harbour Bridge Opening

When the Sydney Harbour Bridge opened on 19 March 1932, Cinesound Productions' newsreel secured the scoop of a lifetime.

By Beth Taylor / 17 Mar 2022
Film
Photographs
Feb 2022
A woman kneeling down to adjust a television, c1950s.

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.

By Jeannine Baker / 28 Feb 2022
Oral History
Photographs
Television
A series of five images showing scenes from movies

NFSA Presents: Inspired

In the latest NFSA Presents: Inspired interview, Jenny Cooney talks to Damon Herriman about his favourite Australian films and making it in Hollywood.

Film
Benedict Cumberbatch dressed in weathered rancher's hat and overalls stands upright on his Montana farm, staring at the camera

March at Arc Cinema

What's on at the NFSA's Arc cinema in Canberra in March?

By Matt Kemp / 23 Feb 2022
Film
Jimmy Wang Yu skydiving in The Man from Hong Kong

Ozploitation!

Johnny Milner takes a look at the low-budget Australian genre filmmaking of the 1970s and 1980s.

By Johnny Milner / 21 Feb 2022
Film
A series of five images showing scenes from movies

NFSA Presents: Inspired

In this NFSA Presents: Inspired interview, Jenny Cooney talks to Nicole Kidman about her relationship to the Australian film industry and Australian success in Hollywood.

Film
Jan 2022
A series of five images showing scenes from movies

NFSA Presents: Inspired

In the latest NFSA Presents: Inspired interview, Jenny Cooney talks to Chris Pang about Australia's diverse acting talent and his enthusiasm for making movies.

Film
A series of five images showing scenes from movies

NFSA Presents: Inspired

In the latest NFSA Presents: Inspired interview, Jenny Cooney talks to Mia Wasikowska about some of her favourite films, actors and filmmakers that have inspired her and how her ambitions have changed over time.

Film

Deep Dive: The Witch of Kings Cross

Listen to a Q&A with director Sonia Bible at Arc cinema in 2021, after a screening of her documentary The Witch of Kings Cross.

By Karina Libbey / 13 Jan 2022
Film
Sound
Dec 2021
A packed crowd at an early 1970s music festival in Australia

1970s Music Festivals

Music festivals in the 1970s offered unprecedented opportunities for enterprising promoters and homegrown musicians, and were spaces where participants enacted ideals of counterculture and community building.

Film
Sound