Film & Sound News

In November 1979, Australian band Mental As Anything released their debut album 'Get Wet' and launched a long career.

The NFSA celebrates Home Movie Day 2019 by participating in a Home Movie Marathon that also coincides with the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage.

Mark Foy's fashion parades from the 1940s and '50s, featuring designers Pierre Balmain and Schiaparelli, captured in gorgeous colour footage.

The NFSA provided nearly three-quarters of the footage used in the groundbreaking four-part series Australia in Colour.

Three siblings starred in a film. Forty years later, they watched themselves on screen for the first time.

For World Home Movie Day on 20 October we share early colour home movies of Sydney and San Francisco from award-winning filmmaker and NFSA Ambassador, Anthony Buckley.

Cold Chisel are the quintessential Aussie band who wrote the soundtrack for a generation.

We're celebrating The Man from Snowy River (1982), the hit film inspired by Banjo Paterson's poem, with a new curated collection.

On the eve of the 21st Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, we look back at highlights from the previous four Games held in Australia.

Berlei cinema and television advertisements and educational glass slides from the 1920s to the 1960s offer a window onto Australian fashion and social mores.