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A mix of white and First Nations people dressed in 1950s clothes dancing together.
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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

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Aug 2023

A mix of white and First Nations people dressed in 1950s clothes dancing together.
https://www.nfsa.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-08/Still-4_The-Coolbaroo-Club_Dancing_NFSA-Restores_1600x775.jpg
NFSA Restores: The Coolbaroo Club
NFSA Restores: The Coolbaroo Club

Stephen Kinnane tells the story behind the human rights award-winning documentary about the Coolbaroo League.

BY
 Stephen Kinnane
18 August 2023
Film

Aug 2020

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Gender Roles in 1940s Ads
Exploring Gender Roles in Vintage Advertising

A look back at the portrayal of women and men as homemakers and breadwinners in cinema advertising from the 1940s.

BY
 Mel Bondfield
7 August 2020
Film

Apr 2020

A gold Academy Award statue seen from the waist up, with a man clutching the handle of a sword
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Australia's first Oscar
Australia's first Oscar

The first Academy Award ever won by an Australian is in the NFSA collection.

BY
 Beth Taylor
17 April 2020
Documents
Film

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
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Anzac Day Marches
Anzac Day Marches: Home Movies

With public gatherings to commemorate Anzac Day in 2020 not going ahead because of COVID-19, we shared home movies of marches from Anzac Day in 1933, 1946 and 1980.

BY
 Heather Gill
15 April 2020
Film

Feb 2020

Cricketer Sir Donald Bradman walks onto the Sydney Cricket Ground ready to bat.
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Bradman in Colour
Sir Donald Bradman Playing Cricket – in Colour

A recently donated film reveals the only known colour footage of Sir Donald Bradman playing cricket.

BY
 Jeff Wray
21 February 2020
Film

Nov 2019

A grassy field in rural Australia with gum trees and mountains in the background
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Rural Bank Radio
Regional Radio Dramas by the Rural Bank of NSW from the 1930s and 40s

Guest contributor Jennifer Bowen shares extracts from several rare regional radio programs in the NFSA collection funded by the Rural Bank of NSW.

BY
 Jennifer Bowen
13 November 2019
Radio

Apr 2019

Three women pose for the camera. One wears a white wedding gown. The other two are bridesmaids in pink.
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Vintage fashion in colour
Beautiful vintage European fashion at Mark Foy's

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

BY
 Beth Taylor
29 April 2019
Film

Mar 2019

Black and white portrait of actress Betty Bryant wit her elbows resting on a piano accordian and her face in her hands.
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Starstruck: Betty Bryant
Betty Bryant: 1940s film ingénue features in Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits exhibition

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 March 2019
Film
Object
Photographs

Oct 2018

Two men and a woman. One man lights a cigarette while a mysterious hand reaches for him. The woman looks terrified. The other man holds a gun.
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Horror Radio
Radio horror and thriller serials of the 1940s and 50s

For Halloween, we're sharing three full-length episodes of popular horror and thriller radio serials of the 1940s and 50s.

BY
 Chris Arneil
26 October 2018
Radio

Sep 2018

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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 September 2018
Film
Photographs

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