The colour TV revolution hit Australia on 1 March 1975. Curator Bronwyn Barnett explains what was involved in reaching this milestone – and why it took so long.
Curator Bronwyn Barnett continues her look at the historic arrival of colour TV in Australia on 1 March 1975.
The NFSA shares recently discovered news file footage from the first Mardi Gras in 1978. Guest contributor Ken Davis, one of the organisers, recalls how the event came about.
Where else but Australia could you find so many A-list actors who have started their careers in soaps? Here are nine Australian celebrity success stories who once called Erinsborough or Summer Bay home.
It was with great sadness that we learnt of the passing of Uncle Vic Simms, an integral part of the Australian popular music scene from the early days of rock'n'roll and the creator of one of the earliest Indigenous protest albums in Australia.
After being unearthed by the NFSA, a rare interview with the late John Bonham is the centrepiece of the new authorised documentary, Becoming Led Zeppelin.
One of the world’s earliest films was made in Australia – and although it’s from the Victorian era, it’s a little bit cheeky.
Harvey Shore, a producer on Simon Townsend's Wonder World!, pays tribute to a beloved innovator of children’s television.
A classic Australian soap opera, a British meteorologist and an illicit computer game.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.
