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

National Reconciliation Week
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Aug 2020
Apr 2020
The first Academy Award ever won by an Australian is in the NFSA collection.
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.
Feb 2020
A recently donated film reveals the only known colour footage of Sir Donald Bradman playing cricket.
Apr 2019
Mark Foy's fashion parades from the 1940s and '50s, featuring designers Pierre Balmain and Schiaparelli, captured in gorgeous colour footage.
Mar 2019
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.
Oct 2018
For Halloween, we're sharing three full-length episodes of popular horror and thriller radio serials of the 1940s and 50s.
Sep 2018
Film curator Tara Marynowsky looks at a preserved collection of 16mm home movies of Wirth's Circus and the family that ran it.
Nov 2017
Australia's first female lifesavers are being formally recognised for their service, more than 70 years after they patrolled Terrigal beach.
Oct 2017
Meet 99-year-old Eddie Vormister and his homemade film projector.