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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

Category

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Subject

  • Australian film
  • 1970s
  • preservation
  • 1960s
  • 1980s
  • Australian television
  • obituaries
  • 1950s
  • television
  • Australian music
  • Canberra
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  • film
  • (-) 1930s
  • (-) 1920s

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Feb 2023

Cricket players and an umpire on the Sydney Cricket Ground playing cricket in 1933.
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Rare Bodyline Footage
Rare Footage of the Bodyline Test Cricket Series

The NFSA is sharing rarely seen moving images from the landmark Test Cricket series of summer 1932–33, digitally preserved from our source 35mm nitrate film components.

BY
 Jeff Wray
9 February 2023
Film

Dec 2022

Sydney Harbour with the bridge in the background
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McDonagh sisters' filming locations
McDonagh sisters' filming locations in 1920s Sydney

Can you help us identify these Sydney locations from landmark 1920s films made by the McDonagh sisters?

BY
 Graham Shirley
15 December 2022
Film

Aug 2022

Statue of a man playing Aussie Rules football.
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Rare Recording of Haydn Bunton
Rare Haydn Bunton Recording Rediscovered

Hear the only known recording of AFL legend Haydn Bunton, 'the Bradman of football'.

BY
 Simon Smith
12 August 2022
Film
Object
Radio
Sound
Television

Jun 2022

Australian Rugby Union team photo
https://www.nfsa.gov.au/sites/default/files/article/hero_image02-2022/rugby_union_1600x775.jpg
Wallabies 1939 UK tour abandoned
Abandoned: The Wallabies UK Rugby Union Tour of 1939

This rare home movie footage from 1939 features the Australian rugby union team en route to the UK – and a tour that would never take place due to the outbreak of war.

BY
 Heather Gill
29 June 2022
Film

Dec 2021

Dark clouds looming over the Melbourne Cricket Ground
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Rare 1921 Cricket Footage Discovered
Rare Cricket Footage: 1920–21 Ashes Test series at the MCG

The NFSA has identified rare footage of the 1920–21 Ashes Test series at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

BY
 Jeff Wray
10 December 2021
Film

Nov 2021

Cartoon character Ginger Meggs riding his bicycle, looking back over his shoulder with his thumb up
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Happy 100th Ginger Meggs
100 Years of Ginger Meggs

Ginger Meggs, Australia’s longest-running comic strip character, has chalked up a century. The NFSA marks the milestone with newly digitised footage of Ginger and his creator James Charles Bancks.

BY
 Mel Bondfield
12 November 2021
Film
Television

Sep 2021

Colourised image of a thylacine in a pen at Hobart Zoo
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Tasmanian Tiger in Colour
Tasmanian Tiger: Colourised Footage of the Last Thylacine

Samuel François-Steininger has colourised footage from the NFSA collection of the last Tasmanian Tiger in captivity.

BY
 Simon Drake
7 September 2021
Film

May 2021

Sepia photograph of Dame Nellie Melba in a garden
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Dame Nellie Melba lost footage
Thoroughly Modern Melba: lost footage revealed

In celebration of the 160th anniversary of Dame Nellie Melba’s birth, we reveal previously unseen private footage of Australia’s ‘Queen of Song’.

BY
 Simon Smith
13 May 2021
Film

Nov 2020

NFSA Stories banner
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NFSA Stories: Explorer Jack Hides
NFSA Stories: Explorer Jack Hides in Papua New Guinea

The NFSA's Teilo Nicholls discovered a recording in the collection featuring the voice of his great uncle – a well-known explorer in Papua New Guinea in the 1930s.

BY
 Amanda Diaz
16 November 2020
Radio
Sound

Oct 2020

Josef Bambach tried to console Isabel McDonagh in a scene from the 1929 silent movie The Cheaters
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NFSA Restores: The Cheaters

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

BY
 Tara Marynowsky
12 October 2020
Film

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