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

Date

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  • 2011

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

Jul 2023

A man leaning over and looking into a movie camera
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Giorgio Mangiamele Restorations
Giorgio Mangiamele: landmark films restored by the NFSA

The NFSA has restored four landmark films by Italian-Australian filmmaker Giorgio Mangiamele – Il Contratto (1953), The Spag (1962), Ninety Nine Per Cent (1963) and Clay (1965).

BY
 Graham Shirley
14 July 2023
Film

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

Aug 2022

Statue of a man playing Aussie Rules football.
https://www.nfsa.gov.au/sites/default/files/2022-08/Bunton-statue-HERO-1.jpg
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
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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

Feb 2022

A woman kneeling down to adjust a television, c1950s.
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Women's and Children's Programs
The Women Who Made Australian Television 4 – Women's and Children's Programs

In the fourth of a 5-part series, Dr Jeannine Baker reveals some of the women who shaped and redefined television content for women and children.

BY
 Jeannine Baker
28 February 2022
Oral History
Photographs
Television

Jan 2022

A young woman with short dark hair wearing a business shirt and tie with her arms stretched out wide in front of her. Behind her in the night sky there are tree branches, stars and flickering flames
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Deep Dive: The Witch of Kings Cross
Deep Dive: The Witch of Kings Cross – Q&A with documentary director Sonia Bible

Listen to a Q&A with director Sonia Bible at Arc cinema in 2021, after a screening of her documentary The Witch of Kings Cross.

BY
 Karina Libbey
13 January 2022
Film
Sound

Nov 2021

Four people are in a studio setting. Three of them sit behind a desk and the fourth stands. They are all looking at her. There is a film camera pointed at them that says ABC TV on the side.
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Calling the shots
The Women Who Made Australian Television 3 – Calling the Shots

In the third of a five-part series, Dr Jeannine Baker celebrates some of the female producers and directors working in Australian television in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.

BY
 Jeannine Baker
29 November 2021
Oral History
Photographs
Television

Oct 2021

A studio with 3 people standing in the centre in front of a radio microphone and a table on each side with two panellists seated at each table.
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Australia’s First TV Game Show
Ask Me Another: Australia’s First TV Game Show

For World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2021, the NFSA is sharing a publicly unseen 1953 game show pilot hosted by radio star Jack Davey.

BY
 Simon Smith
26 October 2021
Photographs
Television

Oct 2021

Four men operating a film projector
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Amateur Cine Societies
World Home Movie Day 2021: Amateur Cine Societies

For World Home Movie Day 2021, curator Heather Gill highlights the work of Australia's amateur cine societies.

BY
 Heather Gill
14 October 2021
Film

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