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Apr 2021
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip in Australia. Sir Robert Menzies is standing behind them.

Prince Philip in Australia

To mark the passing of His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, the NFSA shares newly digitised footage of Prince Philip in Australia.

By Mel Bondfield / 13 Apr 2021
Film
Sound
Television

Deep Dive: High Ground

Listen to a Q&A with director Stephen Maxwell Johnson about his revisionist Western High Ground, set in Arnhem Land during the frontier wars.

By Johnny Milner / 12 Apr 2021
Film
Mar 2021
A group of schoolchildren playing in an Adelaide park in 1925

Sydney Stories with Warren Fahey

Folklorist, author and performer Warren Fahey has produced an online series of Sydney Stories, featuring footage from the NFSA collection.

By Stephen Groenewegen / 26 Mar 2021
Film
Photographs
Television
Handcoloured image of woman wearing a yellow dancer's costume and colourful butterfly wings

Stewart Corrick on The Marvellous Corricks

Stewart Corrick writes about his grandfather Leonard's famous family of entertainers and the 40-year mission to preserve and digitise the Corrick Collection.

By Stewart Corrick / 12 Mar 2021
Film
The Corrick family standing in front of a train. c.1906

Corricks On Tour

From 1879-1914, the Australian-based Corrick Family Entertainers toured Australia, South-East Asia and Europe.

By Sally Jackson / 5 Mar 2021
Film
Feb 2021
Guy Pearce in drag miming to an opera aria on top of a bus travelling through the desert

Exploring Australian Film Music

Explore one of the more under-appreciated dimensions of cinema through our Australian Film Music curated collection.

By Johnny Milner / 16 Feb 2021
Film
Oct 2020
Josef Bambach tried to console Isabel McDonagh in a scene from the 1929 silent movie The Cheaters

NFSA Restores: The Cheaters

Restoring 'The Cheaters', a 1929 silent film by the pioneering McDonagh sisters.

By Tara Marynowsky / 12 Oct 2020
Film
Jul 2020
A ferry is crossing Sydney Harbour with the shore and houses and apartments behind it.

Sydney public transport

Sound and vision of Sydney public transport from trams, trains and buses to ferries, hydrofoil and monorail.

By Beth Taylor / 24 Jul 2020
Film
Sound
Apr 2020
An Anzac Day memorial in Sydney inscribed 'To Our Glorious Dead' and flanked by statues of two soldiers. Wreaths of flowers surround the memorial

Anzac Day Marches

As public gatherings to commemorate Anzac Day in 2020 are not going ahead because of COVID-19, we're sharing home movies of marches from Anzac Day in 1933, 1946 and 1980.

By Heather Gill / 15 Apr 2020
Film
Mar 2020
A rose-pink tinted image of a woman looking off into the distance.

The McDonagh Sisters

For International Women's Day, we present a portrait of the pioneering Australian filmmakers, the McDonagh Sisters – Isabel, Paulette and Phyllis.

By Graham Shirley / 4 Mar 2020
Film
Photographs