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Mar 2019
Black and white portrait of actress Betty Bryant wit her elbows resting on a piano accordian and her face in her hands.

Starstruck: Betty Bryant

A look at Betty Bryant, once Australia’s most famed film ingénue, who features in the exhibition Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits, now open on the Gold Coast.

By Tenille Hands / 6 Mar 2019
Film
Object
Photographs
Sep 2018

Wirth's Circus home movies

Film curator Tara Marynowsky looks at a preserved collection of 16mm home movies of Wirth's Circus and the family that ran it.

By Tara Marynowsky / 10 Sep 2018
Film
Photographs
Sep 2017
Hugo Weaving as a country town police officer in a still from the film The Dressmaker

Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits

Dr Jenny Gall, Assistant Curator Documents and Artefacts, previews the forthcoming NFSA-National Portrait Gallery exhibition, Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits.

By Jenny Gall / 5 Sep 2017
Photographs
Feb 2016
Cropped image of Italian lobby card for the film 'Smithy' showing Ron Randell (in the title role) disembarking the plane and being surrounded by reporters.

Smithy turns 70

We celebrate the 70th anniversary of Charles Kingsford Smith biopic 'Smithy' with a look at Billy Hughes' cameo in the film.

By Beth Taylor / 15 Feb 2016
Film
Photographs
Posters
Jan 2016
Maurene Edson in a still from Channel Seven TV show Fun Fair

Maurene Edson

Completing an internship at the NFSA led Emily George to an unexpected family connection to the radio collection.

By Emily George / 11 Jan 2016
Photographs
Sound
Television