Film & Sound News

List of articles

Oct 2011

Our Audiovisual Heritage

National Film and Sound Archive CEO Michael Loebenstein delivered a speech to mark the UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage on 27 October.

By Kylie Doherty / 27 Oct 2011

Film

Radio

Sound

Television

Sep 2011

What's that bug?

Can you identify the bug that was glued between glass slides over 100 years ago?

By Darren Weinert / 8 Sep 2011

Object

Aug 2011

Preservation planning

The final days of Mick Newnham's preservation conference feature a wet gate and a storm: a fitting juxtaposition of the subtlety and power of liquid.

By Mick Newnham / 12 Aug 2011

Learning the basics of video

Mick Newnham visits Lithuania to share his extensive knowledge of audiovisual preservation.

By Mick Newnham / 12 Aug 2011

Keep your analogue copies

NFSA Development Manager Executive Dominic Case looks back at the days when computers first infiltrated the film industry, and wonders what the digital present - and future - holds for film archives.

By Dominic Case / 8 Aug 2011

Film

Jul 2011

Safeguarding Sound and Image Collections

Mick Newnham is in Latvia to provide training for the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property.

By Mick Newnham / 22 Jul 2011

A group of conference delegates standing outside the New Caledonia national archives.

New Caledonia's memories

The NFSA gives New Caledonians an important window to their history by providing a copy of a short documentary made in the 1920s and previously unavailable in New Caledonia.

By Rod Butler / 6 Jul 2011

Jun 2011