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Article

NFSA Restores: The Coolbaroo Club

18 August 2023
VIEW
Artist Richard Bell seated in his studio in front of one of his works: a coloured Indigenous map of Australia with the words PAYE THE RENT across it
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Deep Dive: You Can Go Now

Watch a filmed conversation with First Nations artist Richard Bell at the NFSA.
24 August 2023
A fire ant seen at close quarters on a branch
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Science and Innovation

Science Week stories about spray-on skin, conservation, biosecurity, drones and more.
14 August 2023
Three white children, two boys and a girl, laughing and smiling together on a boat at sea. The youngest boy and girl are wearing colourful jumpers while the older boy wears a denim jacket.
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1990s TV shows for tweens

Remember the boom in Australian science-fiction and fantasy TV for kids in the 1990s?
Wendy Hanna  / 
9 August 2023

Category

  • Film
  • Photographs
  • Sound
  • Documents
  • Object
  • Oral History
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Subject

  • Australian film
  • 1970s
  • preservation
  • 1960s
  • 1980s
  • Australian television
  • 1930s
  • obituaries
  • 1950s
  • television
  • Australian music
  • Canberra
  • First Nations Australians
  • events
  • Arc cinema
  • Australian cinema
  • Australians & Hollywood
  • 1920s
  • film
  • (-) archives

Date

  • 2021
  • 2020
  • 2015
  • 2014
  • 2013
  • 2012
  • 2011
  • 2010

Nov 2021

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RE/Vision Commission: Jazz Money
RE/Vision Commission: WINHANGANHA by Jazz Money

Award-winning digital artist Jazz Money is the recipient of the RE/Vision Commission, receiving $25,000 to create an audiovisual piece interpreting the NFSA collection to offer an authentic and contemporary vision of Australia.

BY
 Nicola Gage
10 November 2021

Oct 2021

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Media Literacy Week 2021
Media Literacy Week

To mark Media Literacy Week 2021, guest writer Dr TJ Thomson examines the role of the NFSA in improving our understanding of the impact of media in our lives and in Australia's history.

BY
 TJ Thomson
25 October 2021

Oct 2021

Rows of shelving stacked with film canisters in the NFSA vaults
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Growing the NFSA collection
Growing the NFSA collection – What and How Much We Collect

Curator Thorsten Kaeding looks at how and why the NFSA selects – and sometimes excludes – materials from the national collection.

BY
 Thorsten Kaeding
11 October 2021

Jun 2021

A collage showing Canberra cultural institutions and some of the artworks and artefacts they contain
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The Cultural Icons
The Cultural Icons: Made of Australia

Canberra is home to 12 of Australia’s most iconic cultural institutions. And for the first time in history, these icons are collaborating to give 12 unique perspectives of Australia’s story.

25 June 2021
Film
Photographs

Jul 2020

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Sharing the NFSA collection
How can I access the NFSA collection?

Discover the many ways you can access our collection. You’ll be surprised of how much is available – onsite, online and elsewhere!

BY
 Miguel Gonzalez
23 July 2020
Film

Mar 2020

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The NFSA is Always Open Online
The NFSA is Always Open Online

The NFSA is always open online, with our collection available to be explored 24/7.

BY
 Noel Wheatley
23 March 2020
Documents
Film
Object
Oral History
Photographs
Posters
Radio
Sound
Television

May 2015

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Archives go Beyond Bytes

Highlights from last month's Beyond Bytes workshop hosted by the NFSA and featuring a panel of international guests from the forefront of new archive business models and processes.

BY
 Matthew Davies
14 May 2015

Apr 2015

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Welcoming the world's archives

This week, the NFSA is hosting the 71st FIAF Congress in Sydney and Canberra. We look back at the technological predictions made at the previous NFSA-FIAF Congress in 1986.

BY
 Miguel Gonzalez
12 April 2015
Film

Apr 2014

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Thailand's fragile film heritage

Thai Film Archivist Kedsuda Jina recently visited the NFSA to learn about our preservation work. She told Clair Hurford that her country's heritage is in danger because of a lack of interest from the public.

BY
 Clair Hurford
9 April 2014
Film

Sep 2013

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International Council on Archives

Senior researcher Mick Newnham reports on his recent visit to the Solomon Islands for the Pacific Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives.

BY
 Mick Newnham
4 September 2013
Film

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